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Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Erin Tierney/The Creswell Chronicle Liesel Geyer, Nikki Wood and Grace Perdue have been added to Creswell’s Teen Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) graduates. They were recognized at Monday night’s city council meeting, as South Lane County Fire & Rescue Division Chief Aaron Smith presented certificates…
Christopher Palanuk/The Creswell Chronicle Creswell high school seniors explode with emotion as they are paraded in front of the audience during homecoming on Oct. 5.
Creslane Elementary School (CES) staff and parents are upset by a report independently discovered in recent weeks regarding a third grade teacher misusing district equipment to store and view sexually explicit materials back in 2016, and are especially concerned because the teacher is still a…
Rick Higgins VFW State Commander Rick Higgins, of Creswell, was recently elected the The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) state commander for the department of Oregon, so he’s got a finger on the pulse of all the VFW happenings. He relayed to The Chronicle that…
The Creswell School Board met Wednesday, Sept. 12 for the first meeting of the school year, where they discussed new business, as well as reports on enrollment, transportation and technical updates. Board Chair Tim Rogers appointed board directors to three 2018 to 2019 committees. David…
(left to right) Clowns Eric Nilsen, Ryan Britton and Gary Hilgendorf emerge from the clown car to dance during opening night of ”Under the Big Top” on Friday, Sept. 9. The actors are part of Creative Chaos Actors, which is a troupe specifically for disabled…
It was not unusual in the 1950’s for a youngster to work in the fields of the Willamette Valley to pay for back-to-school clothing and supplies. It was especially true for me in the summer of 1959, when I was entering Creswell High school, as…
CHRISTOPHER PALANUK/THE CRESWELL CHRONICLE Violet downs a spoonful of her ice cream during the ice cream social held in the Creswell Library’s backyard on Aug. 22.
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…