Category Opinion & Editorial

A framed Chronicle edition from Nov. 11, 1971 that hangs in the Creswell Area Historical Museum represents the paper’s longtime commitment to local news. I attended a business conference once where the keynote speaker asked the audience for a show of hands “if your team…

Whenever you are reading this, you can know that it is the worst day of the pandemic for The Chronicle. That’s an ugly truth for many small business owners, who see each passing day as an extension of the 18-month-long-and-counting pandemic, and its effects on…

Former publisher: ’Keep up the great work!’ Dear Editor: Congratulations to The Chronicle for its impressive awards! I and my wife Judy were publishers of The Creswell Chronicle in 1974-75. Last week we passed through on our travels and proudly picked up a copy of…

Dear Editor: While reading last week’s “Letters to the Editor” I noticed something unusual. A couple of folks I don’t always agree with felt the same way I did about Dave Stram for mayor. Proving to me that he is definitely the best man for…

A call for city councilors, residents to support Stram Dear Editor: Like most people in Creswell I’m very dismayed by the division and hostility being expressed in our “Friendly City.” Two mayors resigning in less than a year. Uncivil discourse without respect for our elected…

Every summer when I was little, my friends and I would set up a lemonade stand on the street corner near my house. We would start by asking my Mom to go out and buy us a couple of cans of lemonade concentrate from Trader…