For more than 70 years, The Arc Lane County has cast a light on issues facing people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and advocating for their basic human rights. Sadly, people with disabilities have long been excluded. They have been confined to institutions, banned from…

Hello! We are the founders of Women of American Muscle (WAM), a car club created by women for women.  WAM began October 2022 when we decided to create a new space in the car club community — a space where muscle car driving women can…

It has been over a month since I sent in my last column to The Chronicle. Shortly after, Jim and I spent 12 days touring and cruising New England and Eastern Canada visiting areas we have only read about.  We flew from Eugene to Boston…

Thanks for the informative article, “Housing crisis a multi-faceted issue” in the Aug. 3 edition of The Chronicle.  One factor left out was whole-house rentals via Airbnb and such. I used to rent part of a tri-plex that is now all Airbnb. Three tenants had…

For over 15 years, the congregation at Springfield’s Ebbert Memorial United Methodist Church has been engaged in a ministry of feeding hungry people. At first we handed out sack lunches at the church or delivered from our cars, when it was legal to do so…

On the Fourth of July, I refl ected on the state of our democracy and our most recentelection. Voter turnout in Cottage Grove’s May election was 21%. Four out of five eligible voters did not vote. Only 2,600 voted out of 14,730 in a state…