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Graduation 2024: How sweet it is!

CLASS ACTS: GRADUATION CLASS OF 2024The Chronicle’s one-of-a-kind graduation magazine is included with papers next week! See senior portraits and graduation celebrations.Thursday, June 27 COTTAGE GROVE HIGH COTTAGE GROVE –…

13 Jun 2024

Graduation 2024: How sweet it is!

13 Jun 2024

Grove’s Bohemia Mining Days off, on again, now with ‘Spirit’

COTTAGE GROVE – Since the Bohemia Mining Days board announced its inability to put on the Grove’s annual BMD celebration last month, opting to skip this year and hopefully come…

13 Jun 2024

Grove’s Bohemia Mining Days off, on again, now with ‘Spirit’

COTTAGE GROVE – Since the Bohemia Mining Days board announced its inability to put on the Grove’s annual BMD celebration last month, opting to skip this year and hopefully come…

13 Jun 2024

Former Colt Molony breaking Duck records

EUGENE – The day is Sunday, May 5, 2024. Oregon baseball is hosting the Utah Utes, with Utah leading 1-0 in the bottom of the 2nd inning. Up steps Ducks…

13 Jun 2024

Former Colt Molony breaking Duck records

EUGENE – The day is Sunday, May 5, 2024. Oregon baseball is hosting the Utah Utes, with Utah leading 1-0 in the bottom of the 2nd inning. Up steps Ducks…

13 Jun 2024

The End of a Chapter

Creswell’s champion of children’s reading retires CRESWELL – Laurie Swanson-Gribskov started Creslane Elementary School’s Intergenerational Reading Collaboration (IRC) about a decade ago, and she is retiring from the program with…

13 Jun 2024

The End of a Chapter

13 Jun 2024

Morgan family raises the roof

Ñ‚Ð¦Ð° Nonprofit First Story will give the Morgan family a zero-down, zero-interest mortgage on a brand-new Hayden Home in Springfield’s Woodland Ridge community this October. SPRINGFIELD – Marie, 25, and…

13 Jun 2024

Morgan family raises the roof

13 Jun 2024

BACK-TO-BACK: Thurston baseball first Class 5A repeat champion

KALLIE HANSEL-TENNES / CHRONICLE PHOTO. Thurston’s senior trio of Adam Elliott (1), Eli Crist (middle), and Bryson Clifford (far right) celebrate together after the Colts won back-to-back state titles Saturday at UO’s PK Park.

EUGENE – In the 17 years since the Oregon School Activities Association moved from a four-class system to a six-class system, no baseball team in Class 5A had ever won back-to-back titles.

That all changed on Saturday at the University of Oregon’s PK Park as the Thurston Colts claimed their second straight title, with a 2-0 win over No. 4 West Albany.

“It’s pretty special. The kids worked really hard all offseason. They had a goal to accomplish, they bought in, and they competed against everybody,” said Thurston coach Dennis Minium. “They knew they had a target on their backs, but they play better that way. I can’t say enough about our group of kids.”

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