CRESWELL — It was a good seven years, Dr. Damon Armitage said. Camas Swale, a community-based family medicine clinic at 117 Melton Road, closed its doors on July 18, leaving Creswell without a family care practitioner for the first time since October 2017. Above, practitioners…

‘Isolated incident’ not keeping business owners down COTTAGE GROVE – Nine businesses on Aug. 21 suffered damage to their storefronts after a frenzied man swung a metal sign post through their windows. Downtown is not down-and-out, though, and business leaders are assuring the community that…

Last year to pluck flowers, eye art at Cottage Grove farm COTTAGE GROVE — An abstract artist is living on a happy hill in Cottage Grove, and she is inviting others to come and smell the flowers at her homestead. The Happy Hill Homestead flower…

A new community-based mobile crisis program is set to launch on Aug. 18 — one that is designed to address the immediate needs of people experiencing behavioral health crises.  The Mobile Crisis Services of Lane County will assist folks in “an urgent or emergent, perceived…

In first funding round, county among earliest in U.S. to receive money for new ‘resilience hubs.’ Lane County’s grant application was among 21 applicants awarded over $19 million in environmental and climate justice funding, The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced in July.  “We feel pretty…

Part II of two. We pick up the narrative as villagers choose a latrine design and set forth a hopeful future. SPRINGFIELD – The community market latrine in the town of Nano was a significant milepost for the project – past, present, and future. From…

COTTAGE GROVE – Earlier this week, the City announced its new plan to transition its Douglas and 12th street shelters to a single 7 p.m.-7 a.m. shelter. The transition plan outlined at the Aug. 12 city council meeting stated that transition day will be Aug.…