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”Splash down” in sight for new aquatics center

Project manager Matt Allen and project spokesman Garrett Bridgens in front of the Warren H. Daugherty Aquatic Center, which is being renovated. The project is part of the 2016 bond measure that was passed and is expected to be completed around September this year. Aliya…

Sweet Lorane Community News

Yesterday, I was considering asking my editors, Pam and Erin, if I could take a two-week hiatus from writing my column. My focus, right now, is so centered on our personal lives, that I haven’t tried to seek out any other news. But, there seems…

Nutritionally Speaking: Hot days, cool smoothies

Now that summer weather has finally arrived, our gardens are starting to flourish. Soon, our refrigerators will be full of fresh vegetables and we’ll have the challenge of finding ways to enjoy and benefit from them. In the winter we make ”clean-out-the-fridge-soup” – but who…

Bayne Gardner: ‘Superhero of Art,’

Bayne Gardner poses next to his most recent work in downtown Springfield, a ”Groundskeeper Willie” theme from the TV show, ”The Simpsons.” Jen Blue/The Creswell Chronicle Muralist Bayne Gardner said he has been interested in the art form for as far back as he can…

The Swinging Bridge is coming down

Volunteers have worked for three years to restore the bridge Dana Merryday/The Creswell Chronicle While it is a bit sad to see something that has been standing since 1965 slowly coming apart, the promise of what is to come tempers that feeling. Crews from Hamilton…

Everett Antonino Manzone

A baby boy was born to Breanna and Peter Manzone, of Springfield, on Friday, June 21 at McKenzie-Willamette Hospital. Everett Antonino Manzone weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces and was 21 inches long. He is welcomed by half-siblings Cameron and Chiara Manzone of Idaho. His grandparents…

Kids explore space, launch ‘stomp rockets’

Isabella Nibblett (left) exclaims over friend Ella’s interpretation of an alien that could exist on an imaginary planet or moon with an extreme environment, during Creswell Library’s ”A Universe of Science” Summer Reading Program event Gini Davis/The Creswell Chronicle A hands-on space science program on…

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