Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Because of COVID-19, the 2nd annual Tacos & Tequila Festival, which had been scheduled to run today through Sunday, Aug. 9 at PublicHouse, has been scrapped. “Unfortunately, we have canceled all of our large events for the year,” PublicHouse manager…
Vanessa Crump, 38, and Holly Hine, 30, strike a pose while taking a ride on camel named “Shock Top.” PHOTOS BY EMMA ROUTLEY There was plenty of pickin’ and grinnin’ going on at the 9th annual Adkins Farm Blueberry Festival…
Marco Pena has plenty of guitar heroes, but John Mayer stands above them all. “My music is my driving force,” the Springfield teen said. “I’d be lost without it.”EMMA ROUTLEY/THE CHRONICLE Move over Rover, let Marco take over! OK, so…
At last report, Stephen Mason will NOT be running the hospitality booth during this Saturday’s 9th annual Adkins Farm Blueberry Festival Blues & Brews. He will be doing darn-near everything else, though. Mason is part of an acoustic guitar duo…
Archive image of Jean through the years, provided by Ron Hartman.Archive image of Jean through the years, provided by Ron Hartman. The following is an excerpt from my mother’s autobiography, “A Tennessee-Floridian’s Life Story,’ a year-by-year recounting of her first…
The Huckleberrys are still performing after more than 50 years. SAGINAW — The thought of The Huckleberrys fading from the local music scene seems incomprehensible to some. But unless things change pretty quickly, that’s exactly what’s going to happen to…
Now that health clubs have been given the green light to get going again, it has been full-steam ahead for members of the Emerald Fitness Club. Well, sort of. There’s no sauna, and no hot tub, either. Under Gov. Kate…
Competitors from this weekend’s event keep their distance while warming up. CRESWELL – There’s absolutely no truth to the rumor that one of golf’s new COVID-19 era rules is that all players, after an errant tee shot, must now yell…
COTTAGE GROVE — Browse through the discography of The Jack Maybe Project and one thing quickly becomes obvious: This band has a lot of songs about monsters, and these particular monsters are animated caricatures who play musical instruments. “A lot…
Ron Hartman You know the COVID-19 pandemic is hitting close to home when it starts claiming our stage heroes. Country artist Joe Diffie, who announced on Friday that he was being treated for coronavirus symptoms, died Sunday. He was 61. …