Weekly Clips for July 25

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This week’s top highlights…

Tribute to Bohemia Mining Days did not skip a beat

COTTAGE GROVE – Last weekend’s tribute event for Bohemia Mining Days seemed to be a success for the production team as Grovers wandered through Coiner Park with contagiously giddy energy.…

25 Jul 2024

Tribute to Bohemia Mining Days did not skip a beat

COTTAGE GROVE – Last weekend’s tribute event for Bohemia Mining Days seemed to be a success for the production team as Grovers wandered through Coiner Park with contagiously giddy energy.…

25 Jul 2024

Fire season in full swing

As Oregon finishes its first month of the year in fire season, the east side of Lane County battles flames. On July 3, the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) announced…

25 Jul 2024

Fire season in full swing

As Oregon finishes its first month of the year in fire season, the east side of Lane County battles flames. On July 3, the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) announced…

25 Jul 2024

Local NAACP reflects on anniversary of injustice

EUGENE — Earlier this week, the Eugene Springfield NAACP hosted a press conference to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the forced disbursement of the Ferry Street Village settlement. The event…

25 Jul 2024

Local NAACP reflects on anniversary of injustice

25 Jul 2024

Listen up! Grovers enjoy symphonic treat

COTTAGE GROVE – When the Eugene Symphony invited conductor Daniel Cho back for their two annual outdoor shows, he jumped at the opportunity. “I love these shows,” said Cho, who…

25 Jul 2024

Listen up! Grovers enjoy symphonic treat

COTTAGE GROVE – When the Eugene Symphony invited conductor Daniel Cho back for their two annual outdoor shows, he jumped at the opportunity. “I love these shows,” said Cho, who…

25 Jul 2024

Chronicle earns 24 awards

Judges recognize paper for its journalism, photography, special sections in 2023 BEND – The Chronicle earned 24 awards for our journalism in 2023, announced during the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association’s…

25 Jul 2024

Chronicle earns 24 awards

25 Jul 2024

Splash Safely

BOB WILLIAMS / THE CHRONICLE Swimmers take to the water in the Willamette River at Mt. Pisgah Park during the heat wave last week.

The McKenzie and Willamette rivers are always bursting with activity in the summertime: fishermen along the banks or making their way in a boat, people floating down the river in all sorts of watercraft, children splashing in the shallows.

But a fun day on the water can turn disastrous — and quick. Just ask local emergency responders, whose call logs outline a hard truth: Water rescue calls this summer have already outpaced numbers from last year.

Last summer, 44 water rescues were reported in the Springfield-Eugene area: 10 in June, 18 in July, and 16 in August.

So far this year, 23 rescues have taken place, including 13 in June and 11 in July — three of them occurring around the same time on July 4.

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