SPRINGFIELD — The Springfield Twin Rivers Rotary hosted a Prom 5K last week. Participants were asked to dress glamorous and race through the park as part of a benefit for the Springfield Young Readers Dolly Parton Imagination Library Program. Her literacy project provides a free book every month for all[Read More…]
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Thurston baseball perfect in league
SPRINGFIELD – The Thurston Colts baseball team finished a sweep of rival Springfield last week, securing an 18-0 record in the Midwestern League in the process. Thurston already secured its fifth straight league title in its series two weeks ago against Crater, but this year’s team becomes the first to[Read More…]
Thurston’s Breanna Raven wins Athlete of the Week
Raven is the defending state champion in the 200m, long jump and triple jump. After defending her league titles last weekend, she now leads the team into the state championship this weekend. See photos below of Raven at a meet earlier this season. Photos by Bob Williams.
Survivors, community reflect on Thurston Shooting
THURSTON — Each day, 12 children die and 32 more are injured from gun violence in America. Twenty-five years ago at Thurston High School, two more names – 16-year-old Ben Walker and 17-year-old Mikael Nickolauson – were added to the nearly 900 students who have died by gun violence at[Read More…]
Event illuminates ‘intersectionality of City’s identity’
SPRINGFIELD — It was the first-ever Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) heritage event at Guy Lee Elementary last week — and the sunny, summer evening was filled with families playing games, dancing, and sporting new henna tattoos. The event highlighted and uplifted cuisines, music and cultures within the AAPI[Read More…]
Hanmadang 2023: Springfield martial arts festival breaks the mold
SPRINGFIELD — This year’s Oregon State Hanmadang was the fourth annual event, with the first three editions taking place in different parts of Eugene. This year, organizers Tim Greathouse and Lada Korol decided to move the event to the Bob Keefer Center in Springfield. Greathouse said the extra space allowed[Read More…]
Uptown Fungus takes root in Springfield
SPRINGFIELD — Gared Hansen is a fan of exploring uncharted territory. “It’s very rare in our lifetimes that a person has the opportunity to get in at the beginning of a new industry that’s not using circuit boards or quantum computers,” he said. “And I believe in medicine and in[Read More…]
Poetry, songs, and prayers mark MMIW event
SPRINGFIELD — Kunu Bearchum stood before a crowd of walkers and sang the “Ispoomootsisinni,” or women’s warrior song, in the fading glow of the afternoon sun to honor missing and murdered Indigenous people during Wednesday’s Red Dress Ceremony in Heron Park last week. Advocates, friends, and Indigenous people dressed in[Read More…]
Raven leads by leaps and bounds
SPRINGFIELD – Thurston track and field standout Breanna Raven spent more time coaching than competing during her team’s meet against Springfield High last Wednesday. Although no one was complaining. Raven, nursing an illness, needed only one attempt in both the triple- and long-jump event to take first place with jumps[Read More…]
Rep. Lively town hall focuses housing, homelessness
SPRINGFIELD — Last week, Representative John Lively hosted a town hall meeting in Springfield to focus on the local impact of the Governor’s recent emergency houseless declaration and a recent housing package passed in the legislature. Speakers from the City of Springfield, St. Vincent de Paul, and Lane County also[Read More…]