Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
FRANK ARMENDARIZ/PHOTOPhill Strader of Glide is about to release a wild steelhead from the Umpqua River that I caught last February. The presence of an adipose fin required that this steelhead buck be released. A couple of Pacific storms came…
CRESWELL – The Creswell Heritage Foundation completed several projects in 2020 related to the Old Schoolhouse, and project leaders expressed thanks for community members who made it possible despite shortfalls caused by COVID-19. Julie Whalen of Willamette Window Restoration restored…
SALEM, Ore. — A decapitated black bear joins a growing list of animals from a frenzy of poaching in Lane County in recent weeks. The crimes appear to be random and opportunistic, and officials are looking for leads in multiple…
Monica Venice, left, and Susan Marie Williams meet to renew acquaintances at the Opal Theatre Presentation of Creative Chaos earlier this year. My wife, Mary Jean, and I, were blessed with the birth of a fine healthy son. Three…
EMMA ROUTLEY/THE CHRONICLE The Cornbread Cafe in historic downtown Springfield on Main Street closed during the pandemic. A different restaurant is moving into the space, which is under renovation, the building’s owner said. Crumpled-up masks lay strewn on sidewalks as…
EMMA ROUTLEY/THE CHRONICLE Dick Heyman cuts the ribbon to celebrate the new EAA memorial garden. CRESWELL – The overcast and rainy weather Oregonians are so often doomed to this time of year held off on Veterans Day at the Hobby…
Nguyen Cottage Grove artist Uyen-Thi “T” Nguyen wasn’t the sort of person to stay in one place for very long – that is, before she landed in Cottage Grove. She and her family decided to move here to enroll her…
The author, along with pilot Jim Origliosso, get ready for takeoff in his Saratoga II HP on Veterans Day this past Wednesday, Nov. 11. I have always appreciated Veterans Day, having had veteran family members and a partner, Nathan Neill,…
Grace Mason was born in Portland, Ore. on March 26, 1923. She graduated from Franklin High School. She was interested in music, playing the piano and singing in high school productions. She married John A. Mason May 1, 1942. He…
Curtis Lynn Walters was born Dec. 9, 1959 at Sacred Heart hospital in Eugene, Ore. He died Nov. 9, 2020 at home of diabetes and natural causes. He was 60. He attended elementary school at Mohawk Valley in Springfield, Ore.…