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Hands-on healing
‘Art as therapy’ amplified in local businesses Art provides all people, regardless of ability or skill, with a creative space to clear their heads and decompress from their busy and often stressful lives. From painting mugs to decorating cookies, there…
Creswell checking off moratorium to-do list
CRESWELL – The city council passed two resolutions this month to address receiving money from the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ)’s Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) program. The CWSRF “acts like an environmental infrastructure bank by providing below-market rate…
Second labor charge lodged against hospital
SPRINGFIELD – Oregon Nurses Association (ONA) has filed a second unfair labor practice charge against PeaceHealth through the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), as home care nurses continue to strike against PeaceHealth in hopes for “fair wages.” The strike will…
Here to Help: Springfield Rotary celebrates 77 years of service
SPRINGFIELD – Springfield Rotary members have honed in on community service for 77 years both locally and abroad. Rotary International is an organization which connects people to create change “across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves,” and Springfield…
7 years of dedication saved Creswell’s historic schoolhouse, Creswell First! takes it from here
It was one of the first stories I stepped into as a reporter for The Chronicle. About eight years ago, the Creswell City Council had a tough decision to make. It was under ownership of a dilapidated one-room schoolhouse in…
Mountain Valley tournament: CHS boys, girls make playoffs
SPRINGFIELD – The top teams in basketball’s Class 3A Mountain Valley Conference (MVC) gathered last Saturday for the league tournament to decide playoff teams and seedings. The Creswell Bulldogs were the key beneficiaries on the day as the boys team…
Cosmetology celebrated at Springfield schools
Springfield Public Schools on Tuesday hosted an open house to introduce its career and technical education (CTE) cosmetology program at Gateways High School, Brattain Campus. The CTE cosmetology program is a two-year program that students enter in their junior year…
Greener pastures? Millers, Colts will install turf football fields for 2024-25
The Springfield Board of Education approved money to convert the football fields at Springfield and Thurston high schools to artificial turf at its Feb. 12 meeting. Both schools requested the turf fields due to the deterioration of the grass fields…
Thurston coach: ‘They don’t give up, and they don’t give in …’
SPRINGFIELD – Losing close games is never fun. Losing close games where you had a fourth-quarter lead is less so. Yet, for the Thurston Colts boys basketball team, having a fourth-quarter lead over No. 2 North Eugene both times the…