Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Dear Editor, Community Food for Creswell would like to thank Creswell First! for our two 2018 Community Service Fund awards, totaling $1,764. We purchased four stationary wire shelf units for use in our walk-in cooler, four mobile wire shelf units used for overflow foods in…
Dear Editor, As a subscriber to The Chronicle and as a citizen of our community, I applaud the sentiments and intelligence of both Erin Tierney’s piece, ”On reporting the tough stuff,” and Aliya Hall’s opinion piece, ”Local journalism matters because our communities matter,” in last…
Blueberries. The biggest blueberry nursery in the country, perhaps in the world, is right here in our neighborhood – and they don’t sell a single blueberry. No, they produce and sell millions of starter plants all over the world. Fall Creek Farm and Nursery is…
Dear Editor, In Oregon, it’s the sixth leading cause of death and affects 65,000 of your relatives, friends, coworkers or neighbors. Five million Americans are impacted. This looming health crisis will cost us $1.1 trillion. Alzheimer’s disease hits close to home — my father-in-law succumbed…
Dear Editor, The 25 Years Ago Flashback in Time article in the The Oct. 4 edition of The Creswell Chronicle, “’Boys Will Be Boys’ Is Not Good Enough Excuse Anymore For Sexual Harassment,” left me boiling. Here we are 25 years later still fighting the…
Dear Editor, When I moved back to Creswell three years ago, I made it my mission to be more involved with the city of Creswell. Through that process of attending city council meetings and serving on the planning commission, I have had interaction with Richard…
Dear Editor and fellow Creswellians, I am a city councilor writing to you as a private citizen to ask for serious consideration of Richard Zettervall as our next mayor. Reflecting on two years of service on the council as a citizen volunteer, I have this…
Frustrated by politics? Remember, democracy has always been a work in progress. Oregon has long been a pioneer in that progress, from the initiative and referendum a century ago to the mail-in ballots and “motor voter” registration of today. Now Lane County voters have the…
It’s Fall in Creswell. Though warm temperatures haven’t completely left us, we all know what’s coming: Leaves turning color and dropping to the ground, shorter days, Halloween just a few weeks away, followed by the holidays and winter. Change is in the air. This Fall…