Maybe you’re feeling cooped up after spending rainy days indoors and two years’ worth of pandemic-related closures. Maybe you’re inspired by the bulbs blooming outside, new growth on shrubs and trees, or increased bird activity? Or perhaps your child is just bouncing off the walls…

There’s a TV commercial from a couple of years ago which shows a baby boomer portraying a standup comedian who gets up in front of an equally mature audience and complains, “Millennials, amirite!” I laughed when I first saw the spot, and as a card-carrying…

Photo / Teri McCoy – After the fall, with grandsons Joe and Jacob for scale. Last week while on a 10-mile hike on the Row River Trail, one of our scouts said, “We are getting close to where the Indian Wedding Tree used to be.”…

First Pinewood Derby, 1953. One of the most exciting and enduring traditions in Cub Scouting is the Pinewood Derby. The Cubs and their parents work together to build a racecar out of a 7-inch-long block of wood (pine, of course) and 4 plastic wheels held…

Editor’s note: This column discusses a person’s experience with sexual violence. It could be triggering for some readers. Not often talked about, but often experienced by women, girls, boys, and men at an alarming rate. Being part of the one-quarter of women who have been…

RON HARTMAN/THE CHRONICLE – Clara Polson was a longtime fixture at the transfer station serving Creswell and the surrounding area. CRESWELL – The Lane County Waste Management site on Cloverdale Road is the place to go in the Creswell area for recycling.  But when someone…

The Old Schoolhouse. CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO Heritage Foundation gets grants, elects officers CRESWELL — The Creswell Heritage Foundation has been awarded additional grants for the project of upgrading the electrical, plumbing and heating systems and a new ADA compliant bathroom in the Old Schoolhouse. In…

The Coast Fork Kiwanis Club, serving Creswell and Cottage Grove, heard from guest speaker Judy Smith, Lane County area representative for Home Share Oregon, at its bi-monthly meeting at Sol Azteca Mexican Restraurant last Wednesday. Home Share is an Oregon solution to our affordable housing…

Parker Ensuring good health is easier than ever these days, and many testing procedures are less distasteful than ever.  People already enjoy the benefits of receiving life-sustaining medicine delivered to their front door. At-home test kits provide convenience, privacy and, in some cases, dignity.  So…