Pictured is the Opal Whiteley Mural, as seen in Downtown Cottage Grove. Photo provided Cottage Grove and Opal Whiteley have a long and somewhat complicated relationship. She grew up in nearby Walden, Star, and other logging towns and camps and was undoubtedly a savant, the…

Maggie Rothauge captured this overwhelming flood scene on Ricketts Road on Monday morning, April 8. Ricketts Road is located just north of Creswell on Highway 99, and runs west.southwest off the highway to Sher Khan and south of Camas Swale. Maggie Rothauge/Community submission While people…

Debi Wilson A Creswell woman is the permanent general manager at Lane Electric Cooperative, after serving as acting manager since January 2019. Debi Wilson has worked for Lane Electric Cooperative for two decades, including 10 years in management. ”I am honored to be selected and…

These photos, found recently in a photo album in The Chronicle office, shows how active the Creswell Neighborhood Watch was in the 1970s and ’80s.These photos are believed to be from ’83. At top is the classic neighborhood watch sign. Above and below are two…

A typical piece of anti-suffrage propaganda masquerading as humor, from the 1910s. Image provided/Smithsonian It was around 2 p.m. on Election Day, in December of 1916, that Umatilla’s mayor, E.E. Starcher, first discovered that he was not running unopposed for re-election. That’s when someone mentioned…

A Creswell man entered into a specifically negotiated plea deal with Lane County District Attorney Patricia Perlow after being charged with decades of sex abuse to underage girls and young children. Dustin Lee Stephens, 33, of Creswell pled guilty in March to 13 counts of…

A Wall Street Journal article a while ago shared some hard truths about soft drinks: 1 – ‘The Hottest new beverage is water.’ People are going back to the basics, they are still thirsty, but they are purchasing more bottled water. Studies show that while…