Ava Foote, 8, during one of her daily Jordan Kent Healthy Kids Challenge workouts. Her mom, Megan Foote, credits her daughter’s third-grade teacher, Jaime Cranmer, “for reaching out immediately to get the kids involved in supplemental learning.” Photo provided by…

Creswell’s Lily Dumas engages with youth librarian Nick Caum during the first online Storytime. Photo by Kathryn Dumas CRESWELL — A live reading from Lemony Snicket’s “The Bad Beginning” kicked off Creswell Library youth and community services librarian Nick Caum’s…

I was intrigued with the latest article by Col. Richard Heyman regarding contagious disease, and the polio epidemic. I lived through the polio scares in the 1940s and ’50s. I was impacted with my father’s older brother having paralyzed legs, as did…

Pat Edwards LORANE — The third week of living in a pandemic is leveling out a bit for Jim and me. We’ve developed a routine and, as I imagine most people have by now, we’ve had a chance to adjust…

Bags full of library materials ordered online or by phone await ‘curbside’ pick-up. CRESWELL — While picking up your Friday evening restaurant or grocery takeout order, why not feed your mind as well and pick up some weekend reading matter…

A “mobile feeding unit,” staffed by disaster relief volunteers from Creswell’s New Hope Baptist Church, serves meals out of Oakridge High School following last winter’s heavy snowstorm. From left: Zody Donovan, Pat Tiller, Dianna Burrell and Ben Walker. Photo by…

Above: The author, right, with the Captain and Fishing Master, on the Ebisu Maru. Below: Quantifying fear. In November of 1982, I was in the Bering Sea, working as a biologist/observer for the National Marine Fisheries Service and assigned to…