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Sweet Lorane Community News

Today, as I write this, one very busy weekend has ended and another is getting ready to happen. Last weekend’s Art in the Country Festival that I helped to organize and promote is in the books as a definite success. It was a fundraiser for…

Farmlands Market facilitates circle of giving

Jessica Landstra stands in front of her business Farmlands Market, which opened June 30, 2014, as a response to Creswell not having a chain grocery store. Landstra started the business when she was 20 years old. ALIYA HALL/THE CRESWELL CHRONICLE When Jessica Landstra was 20…

Welcome to Our World

SYLTEN – Merina Smith and Vann Sylten, of Creswell, welcomed a baby boy to the world on Oct. 16, 2018 at Sacred Heart Medical Center RiverBend. SMITH – Janice M.C. Smith, of Creswell, welcomed a baby girl to the world on Oct. 17, 2018 at…

Ludekes celebrate 50 years wed

Gary and Sandy Ludeke PHOTO PROVIDED Gary and Sandy Ludeke of Creswell will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with a stay abound the RMS Queen Mary Hotel moored in Long Beach, Calif. The couple were married in Detroit, Michigan on Aug. 31, 1968. They have…

Cottage Grove hosts panel to build hate free community

Panel members Pastor Dan Bryant, Bill Harris, Vida Ellins, Lise Colgan and Rabbi Ruhi Rubenstein sit around moderator Leslie Rubinstein (middle) during the panel discussion ”Building a Hate Free Community” on Aug. 22 at the First Presbyterian Church in Cottage Grove. ALIYA HALL/THE CRESWELL CHRONICLE…

Creswell needs safer routes to school

Next week we again become witness to that parade of idling cars in front of schools as parents line up, drop off and pick up their kids to and fro school each weekday. In the 1970s, nearly half the kids in America walked or rode…

School board implements recommended actions

Creswell School Board was called together in executive session on Monday, Aug. 27 at 6 p.m. to address complaints or charges brought against a public officer, employee, staff member or agent. One of the respondents of the complaint and his attorney were also in attendance.…

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