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Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
“It’s the Climate” … Photo by Elayna Yussen If you ask a physicist, a Buddhist monk, or your Average Joe, “What is reality?” you might be surprised with the answers. What I mean is, isn’t reality (what is really going on) real? It seems that…
Tim Olguin, left, and Chanyeong (Chan) Park, and Sarah Hescock (lower right) on the job site. MIKE EYSTER/PHOTO A lot has been written about Career Technical Education (CTE) recently, and with good cause. The advantages of CTE are well known. Among them: higher graduation rates,…
“A return to normalcy.” We hear that phrase a lot these days. We speak it with a plaintive yet still hopeful determination in our voice. “Yeah, someday, maybe,” we think to ourselves as soon as we speak it. But will it ever be “normal” again? …
Dear Editor: Creswell Grange held a drive-by food drive on Nov. 20 and gathered 246 pounds of non-perishable food for the Creswell Food Pantry. Thank you to the citizens of Creswell for making this event so successful. Carolin Pettit, Cottage Grove
Whether we like it or not, we can all find ourselves members of the, It’s Not My Fault Club. That includes you, me and everyone else: “Guilty as Charged.” If you eat, sleep, or breathe any place on this earth you are responsible, at least…
Dear Editor: A primary hotspot for the COVID-19, Delta, and soon-to-be Omicron viruses (and more mutations to come) in Lane County is the UO. Like it or not the “me-me’s,” with the full blessing of the administration, leave town on breaks to points everywhere, especially…
Griesel Courtney Griesel, Springfield’s economic development manager, can leave her post next month knowing she’s left the City in a better position than when she first walked onto the scene 15 years ago. Economic development for a city of over 62,000 is a lot to…
Creswell Mayor Dave Stram This morning I awoke with a great sense of joy as I reflected on the events of last evening – the Creswell Winter Lights celebration. Saturday, Dec. 4, was a wonderful day here in Creswell! Cloudy skies and the chill of an…
Christmas has many songs and carols that begin playing earlier every year it seems, but Thanksgiving has hardly any musical offerings. One of the very few Thanksgiving songs is Arlo Guthrie’s Alice’s Restaurant Massacree. And by Guthrie’s own admission, it isn’t really about Thanksgiving at…