Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
New Toolbox Tactics classes make how-to a can-do GLENWOOD — BRING Recycling sent a survey out on social media last December, asking the public about skill-based, do-it-yourself (DIY) workshops. With over 250 responses, the need for such a workshop was clear, and the idea has…
Kitten overload: Filine influx prompts shelter’s ‘name your price’ eventKitten Season is in full swing at Greenhill Humane Society and the adult cats are wishing that things were a little quieter. So far in 2024, Greenhill has taken in over 592 kittens, a 6% increase…
Students across middle, high schools helping construct sheds, cottages, planters, and more Although Constructing a Brighter Future has rebranded itself as Team Oregon Build, a new name doesn’t mean a new direction for the program. In fact, it will be doubling down on its mission…
Creswell’s champion of children’s reading retires CRESWELL – Laurie Swanson-Gribskov started Creslane Elementary School’s Intergenerational Reading Collaboration (IRC) about a decade ago, and she is retiring from the program with her legacy well established. IRC is a reading program that works with Creslane students from…
■ Nonprofit First Story will give the Morgan family a zero-down, zero-interest mortgage on a brand-new Hayden Home in Springfield’s Woodland Ridge community this October. SPRINGFIELD – Marie, 25, and Kees, 26, Morgan, along with their now-6-week-old baby boy Everett, got their first taste of…
Lane County has recently received a helping of grants for some of its nonprofits from Three Rivers Foundation. Awarded by Three Rivers Foundation, across the state over $720,000 was allocated to 95 nonprofits, and over half of that allocated money – $407,464 – went to…
Last week’s “Game of Throws” event, an annual fundraising cornhole tournament benefiting Eugene/Springfield-based nonprofit organizations that advance area youth, helped raise $51,000 for Eugene-area nonprofits. A $10,000 donation was also made directly to the Kidsports Scholarship Fund. There were over 200 participants and consideration by…
One bike at a time, citizen innovation helping shelter Creswell’s unhoused CRESWELL – Change doesn’t always come from a top-down solution. In fact, bottom-up solutions make noticeable differences in our communities. Creswell residents Bill Kent and Ed Gunderson have taken a creative approach to help…
SPRINGFIELD – Don’t be one of those people who get left out of the loop. Thanks to a relatively new technology, Travel Lane County will soon receive a national award for installing 40 hearing loops throughout the county, with many more still to come. Andy…