Maybe you’re feeling cooped up after spending rainy days indoors and two years’ worth of pandemic-related closures. Maybe you’re inspired by the bulbs blooming outside, new growth on shrubs and trees, or increased bird activity? Or perhaps your child is just bouncing off the walls and needs to move? Whatever[Read More…]

Editor’s note: This column discusses a person’s experience with sexual violence. It could be triggering for some readers. Not often talked about, but often experienced by women, girls, boys, and men at an alarming rate. Being part of the one-quarter of women who have been a survivor of a sexual[Read More…]

Parker Ensuring good health is easier than ever these days, and many testing procedures are less distasteful than ever.  People already enjoy the benefits of receiving life-sustaining medicine delivered to their front door. At-home test kits provide convenience, privacy and, in some cases, dignity.  So the increasing at-home medical testing[Read More…]

Editor’s note: In partnership with the Center for Community Counseling, The Chronicle publishes columns addressing mental-health issues in our community. Reach out for help at 541-344-0620 and ccceugene.org. One of the best things we can do to help improve our mental health is to move our bodies. Exercise not only[Read More…]

Due to the declining Covid hospitalizations along the west coast, the state health officials are lifting mask requirements in indoor public spaces and schools on March 12, shifting masking decisions to the local level, Gov. Kate Brown announced Monday.  Oregon hospitalization rates during the Omicron surge are a third lower[Read More…]

Editor’s note: In partnership with the Center for Community Counseling, The Chronicle publishes columns addressing mental-health issues in our community. Reach out for help at 541-344-0620 and.ccceugene.org. With the current reality of quarantine and social distancing, people are understandably becoming agitated with the uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus. It’s not uncommon[Read More…]

ERIN TIERNEY/CHRONICLE PHOTO – Lane County Public Health and Cottage Grove officials partnered for greater security around a clinic this weekend. Mask guidelines for indoor spaces will be lifted no later than the end of March, state health officials announced this week. That’ll include mask requirements in schools, too.  By[Read More…]

Vogel Editor’s note: In partnership with the Center for Community Counseling, The Chronicle publishes columns addressing mental-health issues in our community. Reach out for help at 541-344-0620 and ccceugene.org. Mindfulness, mindfulness, mindfulness. Everyone is talking about it! What does it mean and how can you be mindful? Well, you have come[Read More…]

There is some good news, and some not-good news about the Omicron surge that the county is in the midst of grappling with. The good news: The drop in hospitalizations is likely to happen quicker than during the Delta surge in fall 2021. The bad news: We haven’t peaked yet.[Read More…]

Erin Tierney, Executive Editor Six people walk into a room. Three are boosted. Three get sick. Guess which ones are which? Welcome to my month of January.  After apartment hunting for years, Lance and I finally managed to snag a beautiful house mid-December. With only two weeks to make the[Read More…]