Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Pat Edwards I was so dismayed this week when I read about the defacing of the historical marker honoring Sam and Mattie Reynolds in West Eugene with a racial slur. I didn’t know Sam or Mattie personally, but I’ve long known…
At last report, Stephen Mason will NOT be running the hospitality booth during this Saturday’s 9th annual Adkins Farm Blueberry Festival Blues & Brews. He will be doing darn-near everything else, though. Mason is part of an acoustic guitar duo…
Chelsea Pisani wears multiple hats running her small business in downtown Creswell – leading her staff and clients through the pandemic.EMMA ROUTLEY/THE CHRONICLE Despite the heaviness that seems to be dominating our thoughts and routines throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the…
South Lane County Fire Chief John Wooten has been under white-hot scrutiny since June 2. Things are about to get even hotter. Based upon its own reporting and documents acquired via Freedom of Information Act requests, The Chronicle has learned:…
Mary D. (Perkins) Yearous was born in Fargo, North Dakota on June 8, 1930 to Lulu and Raleigh Perkins. She has two sisters, Glen Tweton (Stan) of Arvada, Colorado and Phyllis Gowing (Melvin) of Cottage Grove, Oregon. She married Myron…
Carol M. Annett, 81, of Creswell, Oregon, passed away on July 10, 2020. She was born in Charles City, Iowa on Dec. 18, 1938 to Raymond and Lulu (Coen) Shannon. Carol graduated high school in Fredericksburg, Iowa. She married Ray…
Billy J. Dennis, 90, of Cottage Grove, passed away on July 7, 2020. He was born in Hillsboro, Texas on Sept. 10, 1929. Billy served in the United States Army Artillery attachment during the Korean War. He married the love…
Max Beswick, 93, passed peacefully of natural causes on June 30, 2020, at his home in Creswell, Oregon, near Eugene, and was surrounded by loved ones in his final days. He is survived by his wife, Arlene Rebecca, and his…
Mary Lou Wilkinson, age 87, joined her heavenly family on June 30, 2020, due to natural causes. Mary Lou was born on July 22, 1932, in Omaha, Nebraska, to Mazie and Ronald Stewart. Mary married the love of her life and…
The five smartest people I have ever known were all mechanics. Two of them didn’t graduate high school, but the three who did also went to college but only used higher education as a means of burnishing their already well-designed engines…