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Area briefs: Week of Dec. 2

Statewide economic recovery plan effort Business Oregon leaders will emphasize assisting those most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic as they start the effort to create a statewide economic recovery plan. The initiative will analyze the areas of Oregon’s economy that have been most negatively impacted…

Analysis: Business leaders talk challenges of Covid era

It wasn’t that long ago when local, regional, and global supply chains were boringly predictable. A local business would place an order and whether that was to a supplier down the street, in another state, or across the ocean, trucks, trains, and container ships would…

Wildish Theater GM takes his turn in the spotlight

Greg Hopper-Moore is the newly named general manager of the Richard E. Wildish Community Theater in downtown Springfield. BRAD COOK/FLASHBOX STUDIO SPRINGFIELD – In a profession with a literal spotlight, Greg Hopper-Moore, 53, the newly named general manager of the Richard E. Wildish Community Theater…

Munsell, Grocery Outlet helping teens

Grocery Outlet Bargain Center in Cottage Grove has key items labeled for the “youth warming” project. DANA MERRYDAY/PHOTO Sometimes a simple gesture comes at just the right time to make a big difference in one’s life. For Karen Munsell, it was a gifted pair of…

Area briefs: Franklin Boulevard, rental help, new branch manager

Franklin Boulevard gets $19M for updates SPRINGFIELD – The U.S. Department of Transportation is investing $19 million to perform safety and mobility updates to Franklin Boulevard, announced senators Ron Wyden, Jeff Merkley and representative Peter DeFazio last week.  The grant comes to Springfield as part…

Man arrested for Springfield massage parlor arson

Kong On Nov. 18 Springfield Police detectives traveled to the Gresham area and located and arrested 56-year-old Dejun Kong for setting fire to the front of the Day Spa massage parlor at 663 West Centennial Blvd on Sept. 20, 2021. The arrest was the culmination…

Springfield Police respond to shooting, man jailed

SPRINGFIELD —  Springfield Police responded to a shooting at an apartment complex in the area of Prescott and West Centennial on Nov. 18 around 4:30 p.m., where a man was found alive with multiple gunshot wounds. He was transported to the hospital where he remains…

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