EMMA ROUTLEY/THE CHRONICLE Creswell 76 Station owner Bill Spencer watches members of his crew service a customer’s car and deliver a surprise award bag. CRESWELL – It was a day for fist bumps all around the new gas pumps. Customers were pumped up, student staffers…

EMMA ROUTLEY/THE CHRONICLE A lifeguard watches over swimmers at Willamalane Park Swim Center in Springfield on Tuesday afternoon. After a long freeze, recreation centers are dipping a toe back into the water. Lane County last week reduced its COVID-19 risk category to “moderate,” allowing half-capacity…

MATT KINCAID/PHOTO Local rider Scott Briggs getting some air at Whypass. World-class singletrack? Lane County mountain bikers don’t even need to travel outside our own county to enjoy some of the best of the best. McKenzie River Trail and numerous trails out of Oakridge are…

Photo Source: eugeneoutdoors.com Athletic activities aren’t always easy to find during the “Age of Covid.” Fortunately, you can always go for a hike. And there might not be a better hiking spot in Lane County than Mount Pisgah, located just southeast of the Eugene/Springfield area.…

EMMA ROUTLEY/THE CHRONICLE There is something exciting in the way of organic agriculture happening a few miles east of Creswell. Out in the Cloverdale area resides My Brothers’ Farm, founded in 2013, and the modern version of the “Back to the Land” movement. It is…

EMMA ROUTLEY/THE CHRONICLE Bigfoot Fudge owner Johnny Saldaña has been busy from his downtown Creswell location during the pandemic. He’s adding ice cream and milkshakes to a new statewide distribution deal. CRESWELL – The Bigfoot Fudge Factory storefront just got a little chillier. Fudge connoisseur…

A speed-chase through downtown Creswell on Saturday was a Springfield Police pursuit, said LCSO Sgt. Scott Denham said on Tuesday.  “The on-duty Creswell Deputy and a couple other responding LCSO units were in the area prepared to assist,” he said. The Springfield Police Department was…

With the sunshine of the past week and temperatures tickling the 60-degree mark, I have begun to feel a special awareness that spring is just around the corner. A certain energy and revitalization is slowly creeping into this 78-year-old body that has sought the languid…

The Oregon Historical Society commemorates the bravery of activists and many others in an original exhibition, “Nevertheless, They Persisted: Women’s Voting Rights and the 19th Amendment.” The exhibit is the subject of a talk at noon on Thursday, March 18 by Lori Erickson, curator of…