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AROUND THE STATE

WRESTLING: Class 3A Rainier finished 8th as a team at state in 2019; it’s returning three wrestlers who placed at state, five who qualified for state and overall have six wrestlers ranked in the Top 10. GIRLS BASKETBALL: No. 2…

AROUND THE LEAGUE

GIRLS BASKETBALL: Harrisburg girls basketball went from 4th to 3rd in the new OSAA coaches poll this week. Harrisburg was unranked in the preseason poll, and has now reached its highest position in the poll this season … Pleasant Hill’s…

CHS: WEEK IN REVIEW

Creswell’s Tyler Frieze goes up for a basket at Elmira on Saturday night. The Bulldogs beat the Falcons 66-63, leading comfortably for much of the game. PAUL JOHNSON/THE CHRONICLE BOYS BASKETBALL RESULT: CHS beat Waldport at home 82-51 on Dec.…

CHS boys look to playoffs

Kai Apo fires off a three-pointer during the first quarter of the Pleasant Hill game. Gini Davis/The Chronicle Creswell’s boys basketball team starts the postseason at home for the second time in three years, and this time as Mountain Valley…

Johannes Kepler theorized lunar astrology

Astrology attracts controversy and is sometimes stigmatized. Some consider astrology ridiculous, taboo, a superstition. Others consider it valuable for offering reliable insight by describing personality traits and compatibility. Scientists use astrology to predict oceanic tidal patterns, weather and other environmental…

A public apology

Dear parents and schoolchildren of Creswell, I want to express my deepest apology for the incident passing the school bus on Holbrook on Feb. 13, 2020 when it was unloading children. There was, and is, no excuse and it has…

Death Notices

McCOURT — Harold Bryant McCourt, 82, of Pleasant Hill, Ore., passed away on Jan. 27, 2020. Arrangements by Andreason’s Cremation & Burial Service in Springfield, Ore. CHAPMAN – Richard Dale Chapman, 61, of Dorena, Ore., passed away on Feb. 6,…