Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
EMMA ROUTLEY/THE CHRONICLE Creswell High School football players practice Tuesday in anticipation of the season being played. The Oregon Health Authority made a timely audible — one that may have saved the high school football season. The Governor’s Office announced…
This week, Jim became eligible for the COVID-19 vaccination. He is 81, and we are eagerly awaiting the phone call or email that will give him a time to go in for his first shot. It’s been a long time…
EMMA ROUTLEY/THE CHRONICLE Creswell High School football players practice Tuesday in anticipation of the season being played. The first sports to return to action — football, girls volleyball and boys and girls soccer — will not be playing for state…
DANA MERRYDAY/THE CHRONICLE These structures are known as “yurts” in the West. The word comes from the Russian “yurta,” which in turn comes from the Turkic word “jurt.” COTTAGE GROVE – Alan Bair never intended to start a company or a…
PHOTO PROVIDED Creswell’s local Girl Scouts Troop 20247 volunteered at the Creswell Food Pantry last week, placing labels on repackaged baking chip bags and adding them to boxes. Chew on this: Girl Scouts cookies have arrived in Lane County. It…
Back in the day, a man they called Rooster was proud to be BMOC (Blues Man on Campus) in the Eugene-Springfield area. Gavin “Rooster” Fox, who founded the KLCC Blues Power radio show in the late 1970s, earned a name…
Springfield mayor Sean VanGordon on Feb. 17 delivered his 2021 State of the City Address via video online. SPRINGFIELD – The Springfield City Council this week interviewed half its candidates for the vacant Ward 1 interim council seat. The vacancy…
EMMA ROUTLEY/THE CHRONICLE Creswell High School football players practice Tuesday in anticipation of the season being played. The Oregon Health Authority made a timely audible — one that may have saved the high school football season. The Governor’s Office announced…
The right decisions can be the hardest to make, especially with the backdrop of a global pandemic. When Lance and I were first engaged in December 2019, naive to the chaos that would soon be bestown upon us, we chose…
Inching toward progress, health officials this week are dishing out vaccine doses to the 75-and-over individuals, while school officials continue bringing students back, vaccinating their staff and working to avoid any potential liabilities. Each week, more and more people become…