The proposed plan is to create a village with the shelters on city property behind the post office, where the limb dump has been held.DANA MERRYDAY/THE CHRONICLE Major Thomas Egan was a sensitive and conflicted man. Bright, highly educated, and proud, he refused to ask for, or accept help, even[Read More…]
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Keep questioning, especially when answers aren’t apparent
Bob Beck/ Robert’s Ramblings On Sundays we have been reading from the Book of Exodus, and I have been impressed by how often Moses questions, or perhaps challenges, God. When we read the Book of Job we see this again. Job is faithful to God but his friends tell him that he[Read More…]
Lane Transit switches to renewable diesel fuel
Lane Transit District (LTD) has begun using R99 renewable diesel fuel to replace the B5 ULSD it has traditionally used to fuel LTD’s fleet. R99 Renewable Diesel is commercially derived from a diverse array of fats and oil by-products and used in normal diesel engines. “We believe R99 is better[Read More…]
Territorial Highway progress continues
Much progress is being made on the Territorial Highway Project at Stony Point the past few weeks. A traffic light has been installed and a concrete barrier has been erected so that one-way traffic can proceed in a single lane around the worst part of the existing road that has[Read More…]
Good news! Steelhead are on the way
FRANK ARMENDARIZ/THE CHRONICLEWinter steelhead (note the jawline on this female) start showing up in most of Oregon’s coastal rivers around Thanksgiving. The silver (or chrome) lining of November is that winter steelhead will soon be in most rivers all along the Oregon coast. Steelheads actually range and are native to[Read More…]
Pandemic can’t obscure Veterans Day milestone
This Veterans Day, for the first time since the holiday was conceived in November 1919, there will be no large ceremonies in big cities and small towns to properly express our gratitude and appreciation of the men and women who served in the U.S. military. Instead, 2020 will be remembered[Read More…]
Few ‘very touched’ by community turnout for his 90th birthday celebration Sunday
EMMA ROUTLEY/THE CHRONICLECRESWELL – Rev. Norm Few celebrates on Sunday during his 90th birthday party. If the City of Creswell were to nominate one person for sainthood, the whole town could just about agree that Norm Few should get the nod for that nomination. So it made perfect sense that[Read More…]
Part 3: Mt. David ‘The Hill’ in limbo
Merryday I might have bitten off more than I can chew in attempting to tell the story of Mt. David in three parts but I am going to try to cover a lot of ground this week, even at the risk of oversimplifying a very complex set of events. Let[Read More…]
Crowds, caravan overwhelm downtown
BRADLEY COOK/FLASHBOX STUDIO CRESWELL – The weekend before Election Day, counter-protesters clashed as they took to the corners of First Street and Oregon Avenue. It was scheduled as a Black Lives Matter protest on Nov. 1, after the first attempt on Sept. 27 was postponed due to wildfire smoke coupled[Read More…]
How Did We Get Here? Creswell’s namesake was champion for the marginalized
CRESWELL — Kim was like a lot of kids born and raised in Creswell over the decades, and easily recalled Oregon summers with her cousins, getting ice cream at the Dairy Queen, running around Holt Park, and taking family bike rides to the iron works. “It felt small and comfortable,[Read More…]
