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The ‘zoom room’

Creswell’s Lily Dumas engages with youth librarian Nick Caum during the first online Storytime. Photo by Kathryn Dumas CRESWELL — A live reading from Lemony Snicket’s “The Bad Beginning” kicked off Creswell Library youth and community services librarian Nick Caum’s new online chapter book reading…

Touched by polio, blessed by Rotary

I was intrigued with the latest article by Col. Richard Heyman regarding contagious disease, and the polio epidemic. I lived through the polio scares in the 1940s and ’50s. I was impacted with my father’s older brother having paralyzed legs, as did President Franklin Roosevelt.  My uncle…

Feed your mind with library ‘takeout’

Bags full of library materials ordered online or by phone await ‘curbside’ pick-up. CRESWELL — While picking up your Friday evening restaurant or grocery takeout order, why not feed your mind as well and pick up some weekend reading matter at curbside too? Creswell Library’s…

When Disaster strikes, New Hope answers

A “mobile feeding unit,” staffed by disaster relief volunteers from Creswell’s New Hope Baptist Church, serves meals out of Oakridge High School following last winter’s heavy snowstorm. From left: Zody Donovan, Pat Tiller, Dianna Burrell and Ben Walker. Photo by Rob Walker CRESWELL — Even…

Chamber closes its office & evaluates dates for events

CRESWELL – Raina Napper, president of the Chamber of Commerce’s Executive Board, told members in a Thursday, April 2, email that its office was closed, effective immediately, and that administrator Don Amberg had been laid off.  The Chamber’s board has weathered a tumultuous year that…

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