Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
PeaceHealth Behavioral Health Services will soon be partnering with researchers at the University of Oregon to help develop targeted treatments for high-risk adolescents and young adults with schizophrenia. Part of a $52 million grant from the National Institutes of Health…
Visitors to Cottage Grove, Wis., are greeted by a floral display and signs. Editor’s note: This is Part 1 of a two-part series on “other” Cottage Groves across the country. The name of our town has taken a meandering path…
More than 20 programs from Lane and Douglas counties schools received grants, which award as much as $1,000 to K-12 educators in communities across the state SELCO Community Credit Union, through its annual SPARK! Creative Learning Grants program, has awarded…
Letters to Santa are a childhood tradition. Hand-written replies are rare, so four British siblings were charmed to get 20 years’ worth, which still offer holiday cheer and magic worldwide. Father Christmas first wrote 3-year-old John Tolkien in 1920 and…
Chris Pietsch/PHOTO WE CAN DO IT: Registered nurse Carol Eickmeyer is pumped up after receiving the first vaccination for the coronavirus at Sacred Heart RiverBend Hospital in Springfield on Monday, Dec. 21. SPRINGFIELD — Medical officials called Monday a “historic…
If you’re unemployed, underemployed or simply in need of a more satisfying professional path, you are far from alone. The year provided a lot of reasons to take stock in career choices and realign priorities. Why not begin the New…
Terry Lynn Harris, 68, was born to Arnold and Laila (Alexander) Harris on Oct. 17, 1952 in Cottage Grove, Ore. He attended North Douglas High School in Drain, where he graduated salutatorian in 1970. Terry went on to study at…
Charles “Chuck” Taylor, 83, passed peacefully in his sleep on March 31, 2020 at Sweetbriar Villa in Springfield, Ore. He was preceded in death by his wife of 46 years, Joyce D. Taylor who passed in early January. Chuck was…
Ruth Devon Tanton, 83, of Springfield, Ore., passed away on Dec. 8, 2020. Devon was born on May 18, 1930 in Elko, Nevada to parents Reginald R. and Ruth (Kelley) Keirnes. She married David Tanton on June 9, 1955. Throughout…
My dad, Jerry Lee Lister, died November 27, 2020. Born in Fruitland, Idaho, to Walter and LaVeller Lister, who have preceded him in death, they settled in Lowell, Ore., when my Dad was 4. He joined the Navy in ’56…