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Headlines That Sound Like a Person Wrote ThemMost writers have sat staring at a blinking cursor, trying to decide whether to call their piece "Five Tips for Better Mornings" or "How I Finally Stopped…Better than yesterday: The Evening Telegram's newsroom historySouth Lane County holds a quiet kind of magic in its river bends and timbered hills, and for several generations the rhythms of that landscape were captured…A history of the Cottage Grove GrapevineThe Cottage Grove Grapevine arrived on the porches of Lane County households as a slim weekly broadsheet in the early decades of the twentieth century,…Finding practical support through the South Lane Senior CenterAcross rural Oregon, older residents often look for places where practical help meets genuine friendship. The South Lane Senior Center has quietly become one…Spring Fire Risk in the Oak Woodlands of South Lane CountyThe oak woodlands of South Lane County stretch across rolling hills and river valleys in western Oregon, forming a landscape that feels both open and…Last repair of Chambers Covered Bridge: a timber giant reawakensDeep in the willow-thicketed lowlands of South Lane County, the Chambers Covered Bridge stretches across Mosby Creek like a hushed cathedral of timber. Its…How South Lane County Ranchers Handle Blackberry OvergrowthBlackberry vines have crept across many South Lane County pastures, and the ranchers who work this stretch of Oregon have learned to treat Himalayan blackberry…Finding Public Access Along the Dorena Lake ShorelineTucked into the low hills of western Oregon, Dorena Lake sits behind a modest dam on the Row River, about eight kilometres south of Cottage Grove. The…A Rainy Day Guide to Cottage Grove's Coffee ShopsCottage Grove sits at the bottom of a wide, river-carved valley in Lane County, and on a wet afternoon the town has a particular kind of stillness. Shopfronts…Fishing the Mosby Creek for Native Cutthroat TroutMosby Creek drains a quiet stretch of the central Oregon Coast Range, gathering snowmelt and rain before tumbling toward the Row River and Cottage Grove Lake.…