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Children’s Celebration: Mill Street work can’t keep kids from park
Craig Strobeck / The Chronicle SPRINGFIELD – Kids’ laughter, a sing-along of “Baby Shark,” the hum of generators blowing up bounce houses, and a far-away goat’s bleat could be heard…
3 Jul 2025
Children’s Celebration: Mill Street work can’t keep kids from park
Craig Strobeck / The Chronicle SPRINGFIELD – Kids’ laughter, a sing-along of “Baby Shark,” the hum of generators blowing up bounce houses, and a far-away goat’s bleat could be heard…
3 Jul 2025
Sold out Creswell rodeo attracts scalpers, fraudsters
CRESWELL – Buyers beware. Creswell’s newest Fourth of July attraction requires a ticket – a real one. The Hell on Hooves Rodeo is a sold-out event, but that isn’t stopping…
2 Jul 2025
Sold out Creswell rodeo attracts scalpers, fraudsters
CRESWELL – Buyers beware. Creswell’s newest Fourth of July attraction requires a ticket – a real one. The Hell on Hooves Rodeo is a sold-out event, but that isn’t stopping…
2 Jul 2025
Springfield Police Chief Resch promises to ‘protect that progress’
SPRINGFIELD – The first woman to serve as chief of police in the city of Springfield formally had the word “interim” removed from her title. Chief Jami Resch marked “her”story…
3 Jul 2025
Springfield Police Chief Resch promises to ‘protect that progress’
SPRINGFIELD – The first woman to serve as chief of police in the city of Springfield formally had the word “interim” removed from her title. Chief Jami Resch marked “her”story…
3 Jul 2025
‘Spirit of BMD’ gears up, pardner
COTTAGE GROVE – Grovers are typically pretty familiar with the annual Bohemia Mining Days festival that spreads through Coiner Park in mid-July every year. After a slight decline due to…
3 Jul 2025
‘Spirit of BMD’ gears up, pardner
COTTAGE GROVE – Grovers are typically pretty familiar with the annual Bohemia Mining Days festival that spreads through Coiner Park in mid-July every year. After a slight decline due to…
3 Jul 2025
Residents arrested for robbery at gunpoint
SPRINGFIELD – On April 3, two people were staying at Motel 6, located at 3752 International Court in Springfield, when one of them casually met Ashton Isaiah Johnson, 27, of…
3 Jul 2025
Residents arrested for robbery at gunpoint
SPRINGFIELD – On April 3, two people were staying at Motel 6, located at 3752 International Court in Springfield, when one of them casually met Ashton Isaiah Johnson, 27, of…
3 Jul 2025

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Go Fourth and Celebrate in the Southern Willamette Valley

Bob Williams/ Chronicle archive photo

The Fourth of July in the southern Willamette Valley is set to showcase fireworks, baseball, a rodeo, and a parade, among other hometown patriotic events. Someone throw in an apple pie, and it won’t get much more American than that. 

In Springfield … 

It will be a sad day at Island Park on the Fourth, but a great day at Hamlin Field.

As the population swells during the event, traffic and safety concerns stemming from nearby Mill Street construction have put the brakes on the Light of Liberty fundraising family event, which is held annually there. 

Meredith Clark, city relations with the Springfield Utility Board, said safety is a top priority at any event, “and that’s especially of an event of this size, much of which happens after dark.”

Team Springfield won’t let the Fourth fizzle out on their watch.

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