City to pay $100K after complaint of workplace, gender harassment COTTAGE GROVE — The City of Cottage Grove will pay $100,000 to a former Cottage Grove Police officer after she…
City to pay $100K after complaint of workplace, gender harassment COTTAGE GROVE — The City of Cottage Grove will pay $100,000 to a former Cottage Grove Police officer after she…
SPRINGFIELD — Even as a kid, Celeste Wong had a thing for watches. “The whole process of watchmaking is a vehicle for me to express myself, honor and develop my…
SPRINGFIELD — Even as a kid, Celeste Wong had a thing for watches. “The whole process of watchmaking is a vehicle for me to express myself, honor and develop my…
CRESWELL — The City of Creswell may soon treat transportation like a utility by implementing a monthly fee for the upkeep and improvement of its transportation systems. The proposed transportation…
CRESWELL — The City of Creswell may soon treat transportation like a utility by implementing a monthly fee for the upkeep and improvement of its transportation systems. The proposed transportation…
This past week, a news item from a local TV channel was posted to the Lorane page on Facebook. The headlines: “Former Lorane Elementary School for Sale.” The Eugene newspaper…
This past week, a news item from a local TV channel was posted to the Lorane page on Facebook. The headlines: “Former Lorane Elementary School for Sale.” The Eugene newspaper…
SPRINGFIELD – It was a slow start to the season for the Springfield Millers in head coach Jim Fryback’s return. The Millers lost their first two games by a combined…
SPRINGFIELD – It was a slow start to the season for the Springfield Millers in head coach Jim Fryback’s return. The Millers lost their first two games by a combined…
6 Apr 2023
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‘Little Eagles’ Soar: New child care center to fill gaps
BLUE RIVER — During the heat and challenge of the Holiday Farm Fire, which flattened 173,393 acres of rural Lane County in 2020, McKenzie High School emerged as a safe space — a hub for families, friends and community members to gather, grieve, and lean on each other.
The unincorporated community has continued the slow, tenuous process of rebuilding, and this week, the McKenzie School District celebrated a big win — opening the McKenzie Little Eagles Child Care Center. The Center is expected to not only fill a gap for families after the Holiday Farm Fire, but to attract new families to the area.
“After the fire it became very clear to us that we were going to need to provide some form of child care to retain and recruit new families,” said Lacey Joy, MSD’s special programs coordinator. “Being able to offer this is huge — not just for the families using the services, but for the families I was able to hire and bring in to work here. We were able to bring in six new employees, which is huge for this community.”
Pierre Weil is the sports reporter for The Chronicle, covering primarily high school sports. He grew up in a small town in SoCal called Ojai before studying at the University of Oregon, where he graduated in June of 2022 from the SOJC program. His favorite journalism experiences before The Chronicle were being a production assistant at the 2018 US Open Tennis Tournament and interviewing runners at the 2021 US Olympic Track and Field Trials.
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