Pat Edwards Mother Nature is being kind to us these past couple of weeks in Lane County. Not only has she been generously giving us a spring filled with warm, sunny days, but she has interspersed them with welcome showers to keep the flowers happy…

Wilkie For years, wealth management companies have been telling us in commercials that retirement needs to be on our radar. When the Coronavirus pandemic hit in March of 2020, hundreds of thousands of workers were faced with adjustments to hours, working from home, taking leave,…

While part of the movie “Stand By Me,” left, was filmed on the OP&E trackage in our area, the most iconic scenes were filmed outside of Oregon and the southern Willlamette Valley. The Columbia Pictures release came out in 1986. Editor’s note: Part II of…

DANA MERRYDAY/CHRONICLE PHOTO Al Kennedy High School students, led by teacher David Heritage, are installing solar panels as part of a CTE program. Editor’s note: This is the first of a month-long series on high school graduation. There are exciting things happening at Al Kennedy…

Tyler Hollingsworth wants his Creswell girls basketball players to know that he’s seeing terrific progress in the team. It would be so much easier to get that message across if the Bulldogs were winning more games. But that’s not happening. Not yet, anyway. Creswell fell…

RON HARTMAN/CHRONICLE PHOTOJim (left) and Fallon Crabbe perform Friday night at the Village Green in Cottage Grove. Just because The Down-Home Boys have a keyboard player who joined the band when he was 8 years old, that doesn’t make them a novelty act … does…

SPRINGFIELD — If you live in Springfield or rural East Lane County, you have the chance to commemorate your city through art in the Springfield A-Z Art Contest, even if you’re not an artist.  “Everyone can participate. We’re celebrating both contemporary Springfield, historical Springfield and…

EMMA ROUTLEY/CHRONICLE PHOTO CRESWELL – Gene Lord, officer of the day, places the green wreath at the Veterans Memorial on Monday, May 31. Lord said the wreath represents the “life of our country, our soldiers and our citizens. It is green because the country is…

Rep. Marty Wilde on Tuesday announced his spending requests for the federal American Rescue Plan Act will go toward helping communities recover from COVID-19 repercussions in the county, including requests for an expansion of Creswell broadband and a unhoused shelter in Glenwood.  Each state legislator…