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COTTAGE GROVE – The Bohemia Mining Days’ two-day festival and parades will continue without interruption, president Don Williams said Friday morning, after members of the Proud Boys extremist group said they would not try to participate in events.  On Thursday,…

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON LIBRARIES/PHOTO Stewart Holbrook (left) with Washington Governor Arthur Langlie, Oregon Governor Earl Snell, and Arthur Priault of the West Coast Lumbermen’s Association, standing on the Interstate Bridge in 1943. I. Ninety-eight years ago, in a logging camp…

NOEL NASH/CHRONICLE PHOTO Creswell’s Randy Plourde won the Builders Choice Award with his 1935 Dodge pickup, left. Event organizer Patrick Cartwright said the car show drew “in excess of 100 cars.” CRESWELL – This wasn’t the first car show victory…

Blum “Justice and law, well, I suppose they can be described as distant cousins.”   – From “A Dry White Season” about apartheid When I was 23, I was stopped at 12:07 a.m. and cited for lewd contact in Olympia,…

DANA MERRYDAY/CHRONICLE PHOTO New residents and Square One staffers help cut the ribbon at the Cottage Grove Village Co-op Open House last week. All 13 homes are complete. “This project literally saved my life, thank you,” one resident said. “Living…

COTTAGE GROVE – Organizers of the annual Bohemia Mining Days have battled the odds through the pandemic the past year and a half, canceling the 2020 festival and scheduling a two-day event this year. And as southern Lane County emerges from…

BOB WILLIAMS/FLASHBOX STUDIO LCSO Sgt. Scott Denham cautions parade participants regarding safety codes; horses, a bicyclist, pedestrians, and cars and trucks made for a congested intersection CRESWELL – Police in Creswell say that the unauthorized parade in the early afternoon…

RON HARTMAN/CHRONICLE PHOTO Tobi D’Amore said he and his family, including their dog Leo, have been settling down a bit after four years on the road. He performed at the new and expanded Brewstation this past weekend. COTTAGE GROVE –…

BRADLEY COOK/FLASHBOX STUDIO As fireworks explode above, a brush fire gains intensity during the Creswell Chamber of Commerce fireworks show Sunday, July 4, on the old Bald Knob Mill property along Highway 99. Note: This story was updated at 5:10…