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Cottage Grove Public Library: a century of community readingFor more than a century, the Cottage Grove Public Library has stood as a quiet anchor in the rolling timber country of southern Lane County. Tucked among the…The volcanic origins of Mount BohemiaMost travellers who pull into the small settlements strung along the Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan's Upper Peninsula have come for the skiing, the lake-effect…A hundred details from the heart of South Lane County OregonSouth Lane County stretches across the lower Willamette basin and the western shoulder of the Cascades, where rivers cut through old-growth valleys and small…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…