DANA MERRYDAY/CHRONICLE PHOTO City officials are planning a survey of users to find out which skatepark enhancements they would most like to see. Skateboarding – like the Cottage Grove Skatepark itself – has had a bumpy ride.  The birth of skateboarding curiously comes not from…

CRESWELL – It was standing-room only at this week’s first in-person city council meeting since the pandemic, as community members voiced concerns regarding the unauthorized Fourth of July activities in downtown Creswell. The centerpiece was a parade – organized in part by a member of…

Springfield Police arrested Michael Joseph Schlimmer, 52, for two counts of Bias Crime in the first degree, four counts of Menacing, two counts of Disorderly Conduct in the second degree, Unlawful Use of a Weapon and Criminal Mischief. On July, 8 at about 1:30 pm Springfield…

COTTAGE GROVE – The Bohemia Mining Days’ two-day festival and parades will continue without interruption, president Don Williams said Friday morning, after members of the Proud Boys extremist group said they would not try to participate in events.  On Thursday, Williams told The Chronicle that…

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON LIBRARIES/PHOTO Stewart Holbrook (left) with Washington Governor Arthur Langlie, Oregon Governor Earl Snell, and Arthur Priault of the West Coast Lumbermen’s Association, standing on the Interstate Bridge in 1943. I. Ninety-eight years ago, in a logging camp deep in the forests of…

NOEL NASH/CHRONICLE PHOTO Creswell’s Randy Plourde won the Builders Choice Award with his 1935 Dodge pickup, left. Event organizer Patrick Cartwright said the car show drew “in excess of 100 cars.” CRESWELL – This wasn’t the first car show victory for Bob Ramsey, and chances…

Blum “Justice and law, well, I suppose they can be described as distant cousins.”   – From “A Dry White Season” about apartheid When I was 23, I was stopped at 12:07 a.m. and cited for lewd contact in Olympia, Wash. My crime: Peeing in…

DANA MERRYDAY/CHRONICLE PHOTO New residents and Square One staffers help cut the ribbon at the Cottage Grove Village Co-op Open House last week. All 13 homes are complete. “This project literally saved my life, thank you,” one resident said. “Living here has preserved the connections…

COTTAGE GROVE – Organizers of the annual Bohemia Mining Days have battled the odds through the pandemic the past year and a half, canceling the 2020 festival and scheduling a two-day event this year. And as southern Lane County emerges from the pandemic, they face one…