Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Photo Provided/Greg Lee Friends of the Cottage Grove Carousel volunteers have been involved in the total restoration of the 1929 Hershall 36-foot, 34-animal menagerie carousel since 2017. Since then, 7,000 volunteer hours have been dedicated to the carousel, with many…
I love shopping for food, and enjoy taking my time to find my favorites, and even though I always shop with a list, I find new “favorites” on most shopping adventures. Whenever I shop, I see folks peeking in my…
The Bader family in front of Gravensteen Castle in Ghent, Belgium. From left: Ace, mom Hannah, Zane, dad Todd and Sage. Photo Provided Record-breaking heat eclipsed the main event as two of Creswell’s three Bader brothers, Zane, 15, and Sage,…
Aliya Hall In Trufflebert Farm’s 10th season, Ken Corricello had read that award-winning chef Charlie Trotter was opening a new restaurant in Chicago. Corricello decided to send him a large sampling of nuts with a note, and two weeks later,…
I hope you will forgive me for the short notice but there is something unique happening in Cottage Grove tonight (Thursday, Aug. 8) that you really should see. That is, if you enjoy plays on words mixed with poetry, politics,…
Naomi Driscoll with a Canadian stallion named Dreamboy Curt. Naomi is one of the owners of Misfit Toy Ranch in Cottage Grove, which is transitioning into breeding heritage Canadian horses. Aliya Hall The idea for the name Misfit Toy Ranch…
Tom Harada Fill in the blank: My ______ has been diagnosed with cancer. It’s a sentence spoken all too often these days. Whether it’s a mother, friend, son, niece, co-worker or grandparent, I hear this statement all too often: someone’s…
Willamalane’s own Bryan Beban takes a swing after he and friends enjoy hospitality and beverages from the Selectemp booth. Jen Blue/The Creswell Chronicle On Tuesday, July 23, Emerald Valley Golf & Resort hosted the 45th annual Eugene/Springfield Joint Chamber Golf…
A hand-tinted postcard from the 1910s shows several different gold-mining techniques. PHOTO PROVIDED/POSTCARD By Finn J.D. John Chronicle contributor It was the spring of 1862, and prospector William C. Aldred had been in the gold fields of California since the…
You never forget your first, right? I sure haven’t. It was 1999. We had moved to Florence, Alabama, about eight months earlier. I was the new managing editor of The Times Daily, a 35,000-circulation daily newspaper owned by The New…