Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Cheryl Ann Oglesby, age 66, passed away March 28, 2022 after fighting many years of chronic illness. She was born April 7, 1955 at Parks Air Force Base in Pleasanton, Calif. to Gil and Mabel Shipp. She married her longtime…
Son of John M. and Freda K. (Best) Garrelts, Harold Ernest Garrelts passed away on March 2, 2022 at McKenzie Willamette Hospital at the age of 85. He was husband to Shirley A. (Clayton) Garrelts. They were married on June…
Carol Joyce Violette was born on Nov. 6, 1932, in Usk, Wash., the first child of Roy and Maxine Violette. She had two sisters, Nancy and Vera, and two brothers, Dennis and Rick. Her parents eventually settled in the Cottage…
Brad Ford Stutzman, 75, of Cottage Grove, Ore. passed away at home from heart failure March 31, 2022. Brad was born in Sutherlin, Ore. to parents Eldon and Florence (Livengood) Stutzman on June 16, 1946. He married Deanna McGee on…
Gloria “Jean” Hurst, 69, of Cottage Grove, Ore. passed away from cancer January 11, 2022. Jean was born May 16, 1952 in Burns, Ore. to parents Leonard and Betty (Spigner) DeHaven. After graduating from high school Jean took some college…
The newspaper masthead. It’s immediately recognizable when you hear the publication’s name. The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal. You can envision their front-page nameplates in their distinctive fonts. We are The Chronicle: Minion Pro/bold, Neue…
There’s a TV commercial from a couple of years ago which shows a baby boomer portraying a standup comedian who gets up in front of an equally mature audience and complains, “Millennials, amirite!” I laughed when I first saw the…
Photo / Teri McCoy – After the fall, with grandsons Joe and Jacob for scale. Last week while on a 10-mile hike on the Row River Trail, one of our scouts said, “We are getting close to where the Indian…
First Pinewood Derby, 1953. One of the most exciting and enduring traditions in Cub Scouting is the Pinewood Derby. The Cubs and their parents work together to build a racecar out of a 7-inch-long block of wood (pine, of course)…
Haffar Bushnell’s Abbott Haffar took a perfect game into the seventh inning Saturday, settling for a 5-1 victory over Eastern Oregon in the opening game of a doubleheader in LaGrande, Ore. The Beacons also won the nightcap, 6-4, but split…