Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Dear Editor, It is with great sadness that I recognize another leading citizen of Cottage Grove’s passing, Leroy Zimmerman, editor and publisher of The Cottage Grove Sentinel in past years. He passed away in Bend, his new home, on April 10. The reasons are…
My wife and I purchased The Chronicle in 2019. Our mission, unchanged to this day, was to build a credible hyper-local news-and-information business that embodied the best practices of ethical journalism and community esprit de corps. And to attempt this in communities that had no…
By Nancy Mills, League of Women Voters of Lane County The League of Women Voters of Lane County (LWVLC) wants to help you prepare for the primary election coming soon on May 21. It is a nonpartisan political organization dedicated to helping voters become informed…
The statistics about food waste are genuinely staggering. Here are a few that always stick out to me. Between 30 to 40 % of food grown in the U.S. goes uneaten, and wasted food makes up nearly 20 % of Lane County’s garbage stream. •…
Dear readers, The Chronicle last week uncovered several instances of plagiarism by Ryleigh Norgrove, a news reporter for this publication from March 2022 through May 2023. After an initial audit of more than a dozen titles authored by Norgrove, at least seven pieces contained material,…
Sunshine Week is March 10-16, and this year, there’s an even greater need for you to get involved. Sunshine Week annually celebrates freedom of information laws in every state. It also salutes efforts by good government advocates and journalists to use and ensure the effectiveness…
Have you ever heard of the term “fast fashion?” No, it doesn’t mean your T-shirt can win an Olympic sprint or your socks can claim victory in the next Indianapolis 500. Instead, as Merriam-Webster states, fast fashion is “an approach to the design, creation, and…
Dear Editor, Throughout the decades of my employable years I never knew if there would be job security from day to day. Commission incomes are highly variable, never fixed. Now, receiving Social Security, I finally have a “fixed” guaranteed income which increases for inflation, not…
It was one of the first stories I stepped into as a reporter for The Chronicle. About eight years ago, the Creswell City Council had a tough decision to make. It was under ownership of a dilapidated one-room schoolhouse in the middle of a residential…