CRESWELL – The Creswell Grange and South Lane Mental Health teamed up to offer free suicide awareness training to empower the community to make a difference in suicide prevention during Mental Health Awareness Month. During the evening workshop earlier this week, participants learned how to prevent suicide by recognizing signs,[Read More…]
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Survivors, community reflect on Thurston Shooting
THURSTON — Each day, 12 children die and 32 more are injured from gun violence in America. Twenty-five years ago at Thurston High School, two more names – 16-year-old Ben Walker and 17-year-old Mikael Nickolauson – were added to the nearly 900 students who have died by gun violence at[Read More…]
Pandemic in periphery
After three years of historic illness and changes, last week rang in the end of the federal public health emergency for COVID-19. As a result, Oregon’s pandemic measures will undergo similar changes. Ending the public health emergency comes as COVID-19 weekly cases and hospitalizations are down drastically from previous years.[Read More…]
Event illuminates ‘intersectionality of City’s identity’
SPRINGFIELD — It was the first-ever Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) heritage event at Guy Lee Elementary last week — and the sunny, summer evening was filled with families playing games, dancing, and sporting new henna tattoos. The event highlighted and uplifted cuisines, music and cultures within the AAPI[Read More…]
Rye says goodbye; on to new chapter
Well, here we are. It has been a wonderful – if shorter than planned – journey. After a little over a year of working as an actual, real-life, boots-on-the-ground reporter in Lane County – I’m still pinching myself that’s a thing that happened – I’m moving on. This is my[Read More…]
Uptown Fungus takes root in Springfield
SPRINGFIELD — Gared Hansen is a fan of exploring uncharted territory. “It’s very rare in our lifetimes that a person has the opportunity to get in at the beginning of a new industry that’s not using circuit boards or quantum computers,” he said. “And I believe in medicine and in[Read More…]
Camping vote packs Creswell City Hall
Garden Lake as ‘sleep site’ up for consideration CRESWELL — Creswell City Hall was standing-room only during Monday night’s city council meeting as members of the community spoke against a proposed camping ordinance that would designate Garden Lake Park as a “safe sleep site,” in compliance with state mandates surrounding[Read More…]
Grove Council OKs city manager’s performance
COTTAGE GROVE – The Cottage Grove City Council met in executive session Monday night to “review and discuss the performance of the City Manager and to review a confidential legal memorandum from the City Attorney to the City Council.” The executive session was called by Mayor Candace Solesbee after The[Read More…]
Poetry, songs, and prayers mark MMIW event
SPRINGFIELD — Kunu Bearchum stood before a crowd of walkers and sang the “Ispoomootsisinni,” or women’s warrior song, in the fading glow of the afternoon sun to honor missing and murdered Indigenous people during Wednesday’s Red Dress Ceremony in Heron Park last week. Advocates, friends, and Indigenous people dressed in[Read More…]
Rep. Lively town hall focuses housing, homelessness
SPRINGFIELD — Last week, Representative John Lively hosted a town hall meeting in Springfield to focus on the local impact of the Governor’s recent emergency houseless declaration and a recent housing package passed in the legislature. Speakers from the City of Springfield, St. Vincent de Paul, and Lane County also[Read More…]