Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
The Centennial Bridge is lowered into place on March 29, 1987, as a crowd watches.PHOTO Courtesy Cottage Grove Historical Society. (Photographer unknown) Editor’s note: Part II in recounting how two old covered bridges evolved into a new one, designed to…
This is a bittersweet time for Jim and me. After a potential sale of our Lorane Family Store didn’t go through last year, we are once again in the process of selling it, and this time it appears that the…
State to reopen portal for rental assistance Oregon Housing and Community Services will begin accepting new applications for the Oregon Emergency Rental Assistance Program starting on Wednesday, Jan. 26. The state paused new applications in December due to dwindling funding…
Charlotte Maxine (Lynch) Gray passed peacefully early Jan. 2, 2022 from a lifelong battle of diabetes and recent liver cancer diagnosis. Born July 8, 1944, the eldest child of Dan and Doris (Jeffers) Lynch, grandparents William and Gertrude (Barnum) Lynch,…
Valentine “Marie” Raymond, 86, of Creswell, Ore. formerly of Dorena, Ore. passed away Jan. 12, 2022. Marie was born in Cottage Grove on Feb. 14, 1935 to parents Robert Lee and Mary Zora (West) Owen. She graduated from Cottage Grove as…
Tom Mac Cully of Kearney, Neb., and formerly of Creswell and Eugene, passed away on Nov. 5, 2020 from respiratory failure due to COVID-19. He was 78 years old. Tom was born on Aug. 28, 1942 in Shattuck, Okla., to…
Rodney Lewis Loennig, loving father, brother, uncle and friend, died Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021, in Baker City, Ore. He was 66 years old. Rodney was born April 16, 1955, in Baker, Ore. to parents Frank Loennig and Marjorie Marie Loennig.…
SHAW –Janice Shaw, 85, Eugene died Dec. 27. COATES – William Douglas Coates, 65, of Fall Creek died Dec. 28. FLOOD – Kay Lee Flood, 79, of Cottage Grove died Dec. 29. MYRICK – Bradley A. Myrick, 69, of Springfield…
Area Calendar Through Feb. 12 ■ILLUMINATION exhibit through Feb. 12, at Springfield History Museum, 590 Main Street, Springfield, call Mindy Linder, 541.726.3677 or [email protected]. Thursday, Jan. 20 ■ Creswell Food Pantry, food distribution, Cobalt Activity Center, 364 Cobalt Ln., 9:30-noon.…
Sheriff’s Office: Creswell MONDAY, JAN. 10 1:25 am: Warrant service, W. Oregon Ave. 2nd St. 8:36 am: Civil service, 375 E. Oregon Ave. 8:52 am: Restraining order, 298 E. Oregon Ave. 10:51 am: Aircraft accident, no injury, 83501 Melton Rd.…