Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Nearly everyone whose family has been in Western Oregon for more than one or two generations has an older male relative who’s missing some parts — one or more fingers perhaps, or part of a foot — as a result of an industrial accident in…
Norton’s Hop Farm in Springfield sells heirloom, cascade and nugget hops. Last year his hops were in six local breweries. Aliya Hall/The Creswell Chronicle Don Norton likes to think outside the box. Along with growing organic hops, Norton and his wife, Tina, of Norton’s Hop…
Social Insecurity is an award-winning, comedic and entertaining barbershop quartet, an audience pleaser for certain. Photo provided The Cascade Chorus and quartet Social Insecurity will be performing on May 19 in Cottage Grove as a fundraising effort for the Friends of the Cottage Grove Carousel’s…
Photo provided Creswell and Cottage Grove Kiwanis clubs recently signed up to sponsor a portion of the handicapped bench, or ”chariot” on the Friends of the Cottage Grove Carousel, of which there are four. On the carousel, there is an open space to anchor wheelchairs…
Even though it is still grey, cold and rainy, the time to get out and do things fun has come to the Northwest. And a little rain has rarely slowed down Oregonians. Ken Kesey in “Sometimes a Great Notion” says it best: “Standing out there…
The estimated number of mushroom species ranges from 30,000 to 1.5 million. We have had a close relationship with mushrooms and have enjoyed the benefits they offer for thousands of years. The mushroom life cycle includes three distinct phases; mycelium, fruiting body and spore. They…
Photo provided Last month the Creswell Veterans of Foreign Wars received the Early Bird award from the VFW National Commander-in-Chief, B. J. Lawrence. The award was for the highest membership growth in the nation for a post of its size by Jan. 1. The Creswell…
A postcard photo of a tableau of a moonshine still surrounded by happy dwarves, on display at Rock City Gardens in Lookout Mountain, Georgia. Image prpovided One of the most appealing things about life in rural Western Oregon, around the middle of the last century,…
Richard Heyman, as seen on April 1 with a mysterious boulder on Melton Road. The Colonel took to Chronicle readers to find out about its origins. PHOTO PROVIDED In the April 4 issue, Chronicle columnist Richard Heyman submitted a photo of himself standing next to…