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This week’s top highlights…

State ethics commission investigating Cottage Grove City Council

Panel questions Sauerwein’s hiring ‘behind closed doors’ SALEM — The state’s Ethics Commission is investigating Cottage Grove City Council for violating Public Meeting Law when hiring its new city manager…

4 Apr 2024

State ethics commission investigating Cottage Grove City Council

4 Apr 2024

Cottage Grove, Sheriff’s Office resolve immigration violations

While Oregon was an early-adopter of laws which protect immigrants from federal agencies like Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), outstanding issues remain throughout the state. In fact, Oregon was the…

4 Apr 2024

Cottage Grove, Sheriff’s Office resolve immigration violations

4 Apr 2024

Hop to it: Willamalane celebrates 70 years of eggs hunts

SPRINGFIELD — Spring the Squirrel, pictured above with Miss Eugene Pro Rodeo Taylinn Dimmitt, helped host Willamalane’s MEGGA Hunt on March 30. A Springfield tradition that dates back to 1954,…

4 Apr 2024

Hop to it: Willamalane celebrates 70 years of eggs hunts

SPRINGFIELD — Spring the Squirrel, pictured above with Miss Eugene Pro Rodeo Taylinn Dimmitt, helped host Willamalane’s MEGGA Hunt on March 30. A Springfield tradition that dates back to 1954,…

4 Apr 2024

In a murder-suicide, mother takes life of 9-year-old on Easter

SPRINGFIELD – A tragedy unfolded when a mother murdered her 9-year-old daughter before turning the gun on herself at their home on Easter Sunday. Springfield Police were called to a…

4 Apr 2024

In a murder-suicide, mother takes life of 9-year-old on Easter

SPRINGFIELD – A tragedy unfolded when a mother murdered her 9-year-old daughter before turning the gun on herself at their home on Easter Sunday. Springfield Police were called to a…

4 Apr 2024

Planets aligned for Star Frog to find home in Cottage Grove

COTTAGE GROVE – When two self-proclaimed “witchy hippies” set off on a business venture to bring metaphysical stores to the small towns they lived in, it was only a matter…

4 Apr 2024

Planets aligned for Star Frog to find home in Cottage Grove

COTTAGE GROVE – When two self-proclaimed “witchy hippies” set off on a business venture to bring metaphysical stores to the small towns they lived in, it was only a matter…

4 Apr 2024

State’s first standalone inpatient rehab unit to break ground in Springfield

Rendering provided / PeaceHealth PeaceHealth and Lifepoint Rehabilitation’s new inpatient rehabilitation hospital, which is set to open its doors in January 2026, will be the first hospital of its kind in Oregon. It will be on International Way next to PeaceHealth’s RiverBend Annex.

Hospital will also house region’s first brain injury unit

SPRINGFIELD – The State’s first inpatient rehabilitation hospital will be coming to Springfield in 2026. This is not the first time hospitals have had rehabilitation units, but this will be the first standalone hospital in Oregon solely dedicated to inpatient rehabilitation.

PeaceHealth and Lifepoint Rehabilitation received regulatory approval to construct a 67,000-square-foot inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Springfield, which will be located on International Way next to PeaceHealth’s RiverBend Annex.

According to Alicia Beymer, chief administrative officer at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend, construction on the facility is planned for this October, and the rehabilitation hospital is expected to open in January 2026. It will feature 42 inpatient beds with additional space for future expansion as well as the region’s first brain injury unit.

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