Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
A WILD ELK RIVER FALL CHINOOK IS OUTFITTED WITH A RADIO TAG. Photo provided/Austin Huff Elk River anglers are reminded to release unharmed any radio-tagged fall chinook salmon caught. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is conducting a research project…
ODFW’S NEW ELECTRONIC LICENSING SYSTEM MOBILE LOGIN PAGE LAUNCHING DEC. 1, 2018 FOR THE SALE OF 2019 LICENSES Photo provided/ODFW Get ready for the launch of Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s new modernized licensing system on Dec. 1-hang onto…
There’s no doubt this City knows how to put on a show for Christmas. This year marks 15 years of Creswell’s Tree Lighting Celebration, though it has evolved significantly since its Dec. 18, 2003 debut. The tree lighting celebration was…
I know that my last column was heavy-duty, but I wanted to share my brother’s experiences with you. Jim and I went to see him again yesterday (last Wednesday), and Jimmy is in a hospice care center. Although he was…
OPAL WHITELEY Photo provided Opal Whiteley looms large in Cottage Grove – namely about 18 feet tall – smiling down from the newly restored mural in the Opal Whiteley Park on Main Street. She is one of the area’s most…
This past week I received word that a friend passed away. This friend, Jack Leisure, became my friend in 1935 when we were both 11-years-old. Our friendship lasted all these years from belonging to the same Boy Scout Troop, DeMolays,…
A local transient was hit with an axe in the arm, after accidentally entering the wrong house on Harvey Road last Friday.Around 3:42 a.m. on Nov. 23, Lane County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a man attempting to enter…
Photo provided The familiar Queen Anne Victorian house at the confluence of Silk Creek and the Coast Fork of the Willamette River is a museum maintained by the Prospectors and Gold Diggers Club, to showcase early medical practices. It is…
Photo provided Drumming is not what Fode Sylla does, one of his students B.J. Jones said, it’s who he is. At two years old, Sylla was taught how to drum by his family in his home country of Guinea; beyond…
You can get hands-on with park design input on Dec. 1 at City Hall. Creswell will be all decked out for Christmas with events ongoing throughout the community during the day on Saturday, but City Council is also giving residents…