Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
By Freddy GrovesIf you’re looking for ways to help other veterans in our area, this year could be your most meaningful.• Is anyone building homes for veterans? Are any organizations ready to break ground and start building in the spring? Do you have construction, plumbing…
Dear Editor: I was deeply saddened when a witness described Cottage Grove Police officers employing what might charitably be described as the overzealous use of force in a September incident. This is not the Cottage Grove I know and was proud to be part of. …
Dear readers: Check out the “Things 2 Do” page in The Chronicle for Creswell. I’m so proud of our Creswell Library: caring service and activities for all ages six days a week! Thank you Creswell Library staff and volunteers for your excellence. Our community so…
Dear Editor Some time ago, I noticed your “The Chronicle” sign on the side of the Taylor Building in downtown Springfield. I wondered why you’d have an office here. A short while after that, while in a meeting with Vonnie at the Springfield Chamber office,…
By Freddy Groves PACT is officially up and running as of the first of the year. PACT, aka Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act, extends health care and benefits to veterans who were exposed to toxins around the globe and who subsequently became ill…
Jim and I received the very best New Year’s gift we could have wished for on Jan. 4. We were able to greet our newest great-grandson, Teagen James Stevens.Teagen is the son of our grandson, Kevin and our granddaughter-in-heart, Jazmine. Teagen weighed in at a…
EUGENE – KLCC host and Chronicle business writer Michael Dunne on Dec. 29 hosted a year-end media roundtable to discuss the biggest local stories of the year and their impact on the region. The roundtable included the following journalists: Erin Tierney-Heggenstaller, executive editor of The…
One more Christmas is in the books for Jim and me. It was a good day filled with lots of love, good food and with seven of our great-grandkiddles, ages 2½ to 7 years, in attendance. There was lots of joy and excitement as we…
We launched a campaign this week to highlight the fact our hyper-local paper serves distinct communities in the southern Willamette Valley. We’re committed to the idea that Springfield, Creswell, Cottage Grove and Pleasant Hill deserve coverage of it’s people, schools, government, sports, arts and entertainment,…