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Chamber of Commerce past award winners

Citizen of the Year 2018 Cathy Morgan 2017 Jane Vincent 2016 Susan Blachnik 2015 Mayor Dave Stram 2014 Jay Payne 2013 LaVae Robertson 2012 Bob Hooker 2011 Patti Bond 2010 Jean McKittrick Rose Barker Lifetime Achievement 2018 Larry Shrenk 2017 Richard & Barbara Heyman 2016…

Springfield Briefs

Canine calendar contest underway Live in Springfield? Pick up a pet’s waste? That’s all that qualifies residents to enter their dogs for the chance to be featured in the city’s 2020 “Canines for Clean Water” calendar. Many people may not realize that pet waste left…

Memorial Day 2019 – Spring in her step

Erin Tierney/The Creswell Chronicle Kat Romig, 16, of Springfield passes by the Uncle Sam hat painted on the Ken Kesey mural on Tuesday, May 21. The mural, located on the east stucco wall of Plank Town Brewing Company on Main Street in Springfield, commemorates renowned…

Speedway set for Marvin Smith Memorial Grove Classic

The Memorial Day weekend features a full schedule of events at Cottage Grove Speedway, starting Friday, May 24, with a pre-race party followed by two full nights of racing Saturday and Sunday. The historic quarter-mile clay oval will host one of the biggest, and most…

Leaps and Bounds: Young driver finding success

Keegan Bounds and his father, Josh Bounds, next to Keegan’s four championship awards in box stock kart racing. Aliya Hall/The Creswell Chronicle When Keegan Bounds first started box stock kart racing at five years old, he was the slowest car on the track. It wasn’t…

Good news brewing for food pantry, kitchen project

Support gladly accepted from Farmlands Market and many businesses and citizens in Creswell. Photo provided APRIL UPDATES In April, Community Food for Creswell was awarded $20,000 from the Elizabeth S. Holden Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation, toward the Community-use Commercial Kitchen project. Our grant…

Thoughts from the desk at Kalapuya Books

Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Joshua Fattal Photo provided Our small town is surrounded by a larger, always changing world. Sometimes the events of that world impact our community personally as they did in 2009 when the national news shared the story of three American…

We love you, Latham School – Community celebration is May 31

Latham School, 1912. Roy C. Andrews/University of Oregon Library Latham School’s long story has reached its last chapter. The current building dates back to 1922, but the large cost to bring the deteriorating building up to grade, along with declining student enrollment, made the decision…