Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Whenever I take some time off from work I notice that I feel more relaxed. I attempt to spend more time in quiet, with less stimulation, less electronics, and even finish a mystery novel (an actual book, not via Kindle). An ongoing goal of mine…
Tanner Holmes Photos courtesy fo Josh Ryan It was Mom’s Night Out last Saturday on the quarter-mile clay oval at Cottage Grove Speedway. Classes on the card included the Todd’s Auto Body Sprints, IMCA Sport Mods, Street Stocks, Hornets, and Dwarf Cars. The previous evening,…
Community Service officer Any Nelson shares with a local resident. Photo provided/Springfield Police Department Area business owners are stepping up to show support for local law enforcement during National Police Week. Members of the Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce are engaging in two separate efforts…
Voters in Lane County will be asked to cast their votes for the special election on Tuesday, May 21. There are a handful of local school board seats contested for this election, while others remain vacant. CRESWELL Six people have filed for the four open…
Ships of the grain fleet are shown being loaded at a dock in Portland circa 1900. Most grain-fleet ships were barques, which, although slower than a full-rigger, required less manpower. Image provided/Oregon Historical Society One gray October day in 1898, three British ship captains were…
Mom Rhonda Leach is all smiles as her daughter, Racquel, works on a beaded necklace during Creslane kindergarten’s Mother’s Tea. Gini Davis/The Creswell Chronicle Creslane kindergarten’s annual Mother’s Tea illustrated just how special mom is, on Mother’s Day and every day. The event was held…
Photo provided The 31st Annual Spring Clean Up — an opportunity to recycle items such as old freezers, refrigerators, scrap lumber, metal and other large or hard-to-recycle items — is scheduled for Saturday, May 18 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 1600 S. B…
Cottage Grove recently was awarded $200,000 to rehabilitate the 1903 Bank Building on the corner of Main and Sixth streets granted by Oregon Heritage, a division of Oregon Parks and Recreation Department (OPRD). The division awarded 29 other matching grants worth $5,244,261 to Oregon Main…
Erica Caridio, at home in Ireland. Photo provided Saturday afternoon I spent a bittersweet time around the iconic round table at the Axe & Fiddle. Just on the other side of the glass, blurred by the large Axe neon sign, the bustle of Main Street…