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Ordinary Elephant’s Pete Damore and Crystal Hariu-Damore. PHOTO PROVIDED/Kim Still COTTAGE GROVE – An intimate crowd at the Cottage Events Venue was treated to an evening anything but ordinary last Thursday. Looking like they just walked out of a Dorothea Lange photograph, a husband/wife duo…

Blue Valley Bistro to unveil McKenzie Allison mural

Since 2010, when Seth and Melissa Clark bought the Blue Valley Bistro – formerly Creswell Coffee Co. and thought of as “Creswell’s living room” – the community-minded couple has used the shop’s walls and environment to showcase local creativity. On Friday, Aug. 23, before an…

Digital Monsters

Josh Searl’s inspiration especially comes from birds. He said that he loves watching them move and watching how their wings work. Searl said this piece was his mother’s favorite. Aliya Hall If a bird were to fly up to the window, digital artist Josh Searl…

Community THANK YOU notes

Party in the Park 2019 organizers wish to THANK all volunteers, contributors and participants for an outstanding event on Aug. 10, including Creswell Faith Center, Creswell Family Dental Clinic, Platinum Hair, Whistle Stop Barber Shop, Demarcos Wright/Panacea Barbershop & Lounge LLC, Caring for Creswell Kids,…

CHS 1959 reunion

Sam and Pam Lunas (and James Dean) at the Creswell High School Class of 1959 reunion. Kay Higdon Approximately one-third of the Creswell High School Class of 1959 were able to come together for their 60th reunion in late July. They enjoyed a dinner on…

My _____ has been diagnosed with cancer’

Tom Harada Fill in the blank: My ______ has been diagnosed with cancer. It’s a sentence spoken all too often these days. Whether it’s a mother, friend, son, niece, co-worker or grandparent, I hear this statement all too often: someone’s life has been touched by…

Calvary Creek, Cowsills croon favorite folk music for Carousel

Calvary Creek Band with Jackie Jae and Jason Cowsill. Photo provided Two popular local musical groups donated their harmonies at a benefit concert last month to raise money for the Cottage Grove Carousel Project at Calvary Chapel. In the third performance of the Carousel’s monthly…

In a Landscape: Classical Music in the Wild

PHOTO PROVIDED/BRIDGET BAKER With a 9-foot Steinway in tow, musician Hunter Noack will roll into South Lane County to deliver the ”In a Landscape” outdoor concert experience on Wednesday, Aug. 14 at the Ken Kesey Farm in Pleasant Hill and again on Thursday, Aug. 15…

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