Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
DANA MERRYDAY – Cottage Grove To balance spending time in the past, reflecting on Cottage Grove’s history, these are some more recent bits of things happening in our town. … If you have taken a run down South River Road recently, you may have noticed…
Editor’s Note: February kicks off a new partnership with The Chronicle and Parenting Now, a local nonprofit whose mission is to provide valuable resources and parenting information to Lane County families. Look for columns by organization leaders the first week of each month in The…
After purchasing The Chronicle on the last day of February 2019, I published a column from March through December of that year that referenced 50 people by first names only. The onset of Covid made meeting people more challenging, and sustaining the column even more…
To the Editor: In a world of news full of click bait, gossip, and sheer deception, I often find myself wondering where has honest and in depth news about meaningful things gone. The Jan. 6 edition of The Chronicle provided an answer with two fine stories…
“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…