Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
DANA MERRYDAY/PHOTO Cottage Grove’s state-of-the-art drinking water treatment plant. Around town … Cottage Grovers are a tough crowd. They expect a lot from their elected officials and their tax dollars, and occasionally view city officials’ actions with suspicion. In a…
Three weeks into the regular season – in this most irregular of any season – Creswell’s young football team has two shutouts, the latest coming Friday night at Linn County as sophomore quarterback Connor Hanson darted 17 yards for a…
A number of Oregon job seekers have reported that they’ve been contacted with job offers that turn out to be scams. The Internet has made it easier to create and send out bogus or deceptive job offers through email, or even…
Austin Blake Stewart SPRINGFIELD – A 24-year-old man was charged with physical harassment and disorderly conduct Thursday, March 25, after allegedly kissing a stranger’s 1½-year-old daughter on the lips in a local store. Springfield Police Department officials said Austin Blake…
A reader asked if I could tell her about her 3-year-old daughter – who was born under the sun sign Gemini during the lunar Year of the Rooster. This is a creative, imaginative, and at times ethereal, sign. A Gemini-Rooster…
FRANK ARMENDARIZ/PHOTO Rods, reels and lines, the number of available options can be staggering. But if you follow the numbers printed on every rod and reel you can easily narrow it down and find a combination perfectly matched to what…
Editor’s note: Tony Stevens is a nearly 40-year Oregonian, and longtime caregiver. He wrote this for The Chronicle. I was married for nearly 25 years, until my wife’s passing from early-onset Alzheimer’s, eight years ago. I became my wife’s caregiver,…
In honor of National Ag Week, March 21-27, I’d like to share a few things I’ve learned while working for Oregon Farm Bureau since 2004. Moss 1. There’s room for and a need for all types of farming. Organic, conventional,…
The Eugene-Lane branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) is 44 members strong, includes members from Cottage Grove, Eugene, Florence, and Springfield, and 5 of those members are students at the University of Oregon; they REALLY embody the…
SPRINGFIELD – The City of Springfield selected use of force expert Rick Braziel to lead an Independent_Assessment into events surrounding a demonstration in Thurston on July 29, 2020. The purpose of the independent assessment was to take an objective review…