Fifty first names only …
I’m long overdue to mention some of the regulars I see at Farmlands Market: Chrissy, Sam and Chiara (the sandwich maker!). And I have to mention Ian, who loaned me a pen at the start of my delivery route two…
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K9s, deputies, community mingle on National Night Out
A little girl looks back for a little encouragement as she nears the top of the ”climbing wall” leading to the top of a giant inflatable slide set up in Holt Park for National Night Out. Gini Davis By Gini…
Data Narrative
By Aliya Hall Staff reporter Live Healthy Lane wants to make sure their data is telling the right story. Healthy Lane (LHL) has been collecting feedback from communities to see if the data from their focus groups and surveys is…
TRASH TALK
By Erin Tierney Executive Editor Sanipac got an OK for a 2.9% rate increase during Monday night’s Creswell City Council meeting, but not without sitting through a contentious council quarrel. Council President Amy Knudsen did not mince words. She was…
Paws-itive’ service
So many good boys: Jayson Southmayd, of the new, Creswell-based nonprofit SouthPaws LLC, works with his personal ”pack of four”: (from left) service dogs Kimber and Arrabelle, service-dog-in-training Milo and service dog Canine. Gini Davis After growing up largely in…
faux-real
Brittney Morlan, Josh Wedmore, Josh Knoebel and Curran Munzer are the team behind Curran’s Custom Taxidermy in Springfield. The shop opened in 2008. Aliya Hall One of the biggest misconceptions that Curran Munzer hears about taxidermy is that the process…
Debra Ellen Levings
Debra Ellen Levings Debra Ellen Levings, 66, of Roseburg, Oregon, passed away from cancer on July 23, 2019. Debbie was born in Cottage Grove on Dec. 10, 1952, to Barbara Lynn (Godard) and Paul Loran Levings. Living amongst her many…
Career criminal gets 10 years for meth
Randall Neal Jernigan-Wynn A Goshen man with a rapsheet dating to 1984 was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison in July for drug charges. Randall Neal Jernigan-Wynn, 59, is the kind of guy that the local drug dealers were…
Not charity’
In 2019 and 2018, Creswell Clubhouse, an after-school/summer program for kids directed by Laura Rariden, received a portion of the City of Creswell’s budgeted community service funds, distributed through Creswell First! Photo Provided/Jenni Donley By GINI DAVIS Community Editor The…
Lovin’ those ‘bountiful beavers’
Gini Davis With a little prompting from her cousin Jenna (right), little Emily kisses the ”head” of a beaver pelt during Creswell Library’s Bountiful Beavers Summer Reading Program event on July 31 at Creswell Community Center. Annie Carter, of the…