COTTAGE GROVE – Tomorrow, city manager Richard Meyers will trade in office keys and responsibilities for more grandpa-related activities as he is able to spend more quality time with his four children, 10 grandchildren, and cat Toothless. Although Meyers has worked in city government for 32 years, 26 of those[Read More…]
Cottage Grove
Grove hospital gives cheers to 20 years
COTTAGE GROVE – About 70 people celebrated the PeaceHealth Cottage Grove Community Medical Center’s 20-year anniversary last Thursday during the Cottage Grove Chamber’s “Business After Hours” event. The medical center was opened on Oct. 6, 2003, but that would not have been possible without legislative action. “The first thing we[Read More…]
Lions halt winless streak
COTTAGE GROVE – Cottage Grove High School was on dreadful streak, having lost 29 of its last 30 football games – including the last 17 in a row. New Lions head coach Steve Turner sensed that his team was getting better, that a breakthrough might be on the horizon. [Read More…]
Fall Festival Photos
Burleson: ‘Biggest story ever told in CG’
EUGENE – Few people get a chance to live out their dream. Dyrol Burleson is one of those lucky people. Because the former Cottage Grove High School star was so dedicated and so determined and so doggone good at distance running, he was inducted Thursday night into the Collegiate Athlete[Read More…]
Fall Festival ushers in new season of Grove celebration
COTTAGE GROVE – Hints of fall foliage are peeking through the tips of trees now, and soon the winter sweaters will need unpacking from storage. Fall has arrived in the Southern Willamette Valley, and Cottage Grove is ready to celebrate. The second annual Fall Festival will be held on Friday,[Read More…]
Cottage Grove’s Carter Bengtson wins Athlete of the Week
Flood maps to get revamp
COTTAGE GROVE – As city planner and Lane County floodplain administrator Eric Mongan delivered the news to city council on Aug. 28, councilor Alex Dreher said, “(Cottage Grove residents) will never know you did this, but thank you so very much.” Mongan had announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency[Read More…]
City Government: Week of Sept. 14
Chase ‘sworn in as CGPD police chief There are many firsts in life – first step, first word, first day of school – and this past Monday was Cory Chase’s first day as Cottage Grove Police Department’s police chief. At the city council meeting on Sept. 11, Chase was officially sworn[Read More…]
Borke: 400 signatures so far for Grove city council recall
COTTAGE GROVE – With only 46 more days on chief petitioner Michael Borke’s shot clock to gather every signature needed for the recall petitions against councilors Jon Stinnett, Mike Fleck, and Chalice Savage, tensions are rising in Cottage Grove. Signatures and speculation Borke needs 654 verifiable signatures per petition to[Read More…]
