Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Photo Provided/Bryce Buchanan-ODOT Around 10 p.m. on the night of Saturday, March 19, 1932 – just a few months before Prohibition was ended – four vehicles rolled furtively into the little Coast Range town of Toledo. A big, important-looking sedan…
Two editions ago I dropped into The Creswell Chronicle without as much as ”by your leave” and maybe left you wondering, ”Who is this person? Why are they taking up space in the Creswell paper talking about Cottage Grove?” Both…
If you were seven years old and your parents sent you off to fend for yourself, telling you it was a, ”Big, bright, beautiful world out there for everyone but you,” what would you do? If you are an ogre…
Dear Editor, In Oregon, it’s the sixth leading cause of death and affects 65,000 of your relatives, friends, coworkers or neighbors. Five million Americans are impacted. This looming health crisis will cost us $1.1 trillion. Alzheimer’s disease hits close to…
Dear Editor, The 25 Years Ago Flashback in Time article in the The Oct. 4 edition of The Creswell Chronicle, “’Boys Will Be Boys’ Is Not Good Enough Excuse Anymore For Sexual Harassment,” left me boiling. Here we are 25…
Dear Editor, When I moved back to Creswell three years ago, I made it my mission to be more involved with the city of Creswell. Through that process of attending city council meetings and serving on the planning commission, I…
Dear Editor and fellow Creswellians, I am a city councilor writing to you as a private citizen to ask for serious consideration of Richard Zettervall as our next mayor. Reflecting on two years of service on the council as a…
Frustrated by politics? Remember, democracy has always been a work in progress. Oregon has long been a pioneer in that progress, from the initiative and referendum a century ago to the mail-in ballots and “motor voter” registration of today. Now…
It’s Fall in Creswell. Though warm temperatures haven’t completely left us, we all know what’s coming: Leaves turning color and dropping to the ground, shorter days, Halloween just a few weeks away, followed by the holidays and winter. Change is…
Perhaps I am conceited, but it sure is a compliment when people come up to me and encourage me to submit my name as a write-in candidate for mayor. I truly, for the first time in my life, wish I…