COTTAGE GROVE – If you have ever spent time driving around Cottage Grove you will no doubt have noticed two things. One: the streets and byways are remarkably litter-free; the other: a very industrious individual with a cart and those long-handled trash picker-upper tongs. Following her own schedule and routes,[Read More…]
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Ordinary Elephant’s Pete Damore and Crystal Hariu-Damore. PHOTO PROVIDED/Kim Still COTTAGE GROVE – An intimate crowd at the Cottage Events Venue was treated to an evening anything but ordinary last Thursday. Looking like they just walked out of a Dorothea Lange photograph, a husband/wife duo stood out in the simple,[Read More…]
Do it yourselfers to ‘fly-in’ to Jim Wright Field
COTTAGE GROVE – The first recorded airplane landing in Cottage Grove occurred on June 14, 1919, in a field off South 6th Street. The party included four planes, Oregon Governor Olcott et al., and one pilot who excited the several thousand spectators by performing some daring stunts and maneuvers. One[Read More…]
Speedway playing host To ISCS championship
Cottage Grove – Cottage Grove Speedway returns for a three-night event beginning Friday, Aug. 30, Saturday the 31 and Sunday Sept. 1. It will be the championship weekend for the Interstate Sprint Car Series. Kage Karts kick the weekend off for their final race 2019 before the Late Models and[Read More…]
Declaring ‘Independence from Hunger’
Cottage Grove Grocery Outlet’s expanded food drive benefits Cottage Grove’s Community Sharing Program and the Creswell Food Pantry. From left: co-owners Kori and Ed Sowa, Bob Boettcher, Winnie Balaty, Kurt Blachnik, Phyllis Smith (background), Jeanne Barclay, Judy Surface and Susan Blachnik. Photo Provided/Rose Sleanbeck There’s nothing like a little neighborly[Read More…]
Armory starting to glow
Cottage Grove Armory gets a spruce-up. Photos Provided/Kenneth Roberts Prepare to do a double-take if you haven’t been by the Cottage Grove Armory lately. The 88-year-old structure is looking pretty spruce with cracks repaired and gleaming new paint job. Inside, tile-setters are hard at work creating new bathrooms on the[Read More…]
Carousel dream comes to fruition
Photo Provided/Greg Lee Friends of the Cottage Grove Carousel volunteers have been involved in the total restoration of the 1929 Hershall 36-foot, 34-animal menagerie carousel since 2017. Since then, 7,000 volunteer hours have been dedicated to the carousel, with many of the volunteers pictured in this Aug. 1 photo. In[Read More…]
Clock is ticking:
I hope you will forgive me for the short notice but there is something unique happening in Cottage Grove tonight (Thursday, Aug. 8) that you really should see. That is, if you enjoy plays on words mixed with poetry, politics, facial contortions and live music. Chris Chandler, a modern-day performer[Read More…]
Diamond in the rough:
Naomi Driscoll with a Canadian stallion named Dreamboy Curt. Naomi is one of the owners of Misfit Toy Ranch in Cottage Grove, which is transitioning into breeding heritage Canadian horses. Aliya Hall The idea for the name Misfit Toy Ranch came from co-owner Zach Driscoll because when their ranch started[Read More…]
Calvary Creek, Cowsills croon favorite folk music for Carousel
Calvary Creek Band with Jackie Jae and Jason Cowsill. Photo provided Two popular local musical groups donated their harmonies at a benefit concert last month to raise money for the Cottage Grove Carousel Project at Calvary Chapel. In the third performance of the Carousel’s monthly concert series, the Calvary Creek[Read More…]
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