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Benavides earns Academy invite
Jose Benavides has taken his soccer talents to a new level this month. The Thurston High sophomore was selected for the Portland Timbers U-16 Developmental Academy team earlier this month. Benavides...
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Ex-Colts take to college pitch
It has been more than two years in the making, but Ashlee Schulz will finally make her Oregon debut this week. The Oregon women’s soccer team kicks off the 2013 season Friday night when it welcomes...
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LETTERS IN THE EDITOR’S MAILBAG
Vulgar and inordinate Well, sure, the recently completed and maligned Hatfield-Dowlin hideocrity is vulgar and inordinate. But no more so than the other “faith-mart” type, big-box, religious outfits...
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Springfield police log
Incidents FRIDAY, AUG. 9 Suspicious conditions: 7:38 p.m., 1000 block N Street. A caller said a man in a car was following her 13-year-old son and his friend, taking photographs of them as they played...
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HONORS COMMUNITY
Lions member receives award for memorial Mohawk Valley Lions Club member Dean Dunson was given an award recognizing his efforts spearheading development of the Lee Downing Memorial Park and its...
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BRIEFLY SPRINGFIELD
Adult center closed for maintenance The Willamalane Adult Activity Center at 215 West C St. will remain closed through Saturday for annual facility maintenance. For more information, call 541-736-4444....
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WILLAMALANE HIGHLIGHTS
Events scheduled by Willamalane Park and Recreation District for the week of Aug. 23-29. Friday, Aug. 23 Movies in the Park — “El Padrecito (The Little Priest)” will be shown on the big screen. Not...
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New software to help Willamalane job seekers
The Willamalane Park and Recreation District has launched a new software system to improve the hiring process for job seekers. People interested in applying for jobs at Willamalane can quickly apply...
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Willamalane hires deputy superintendent
A 26-year parks and recreation veteran joined Willamalane Park and Recreation District last week. Seve Ghose succeeds Jason Genck as the district’s deputy superintendent. Genck took a similar position...
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Time to get ready for those back-to-school details
As the too-short summer winds down, most families we know are starting to buzz with back-to-school preparations. Springfield’s new school superintendent, Hertica Martin, is looking forward to starting...
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Advanced technology defuses dangerous aneurism
Arlen Sage of Springfield was back at work as a truck driver for Umpqua Dairy, slightly more than a month after he suffered a potentially fatal brain aneurysm. In fact, Sage was walking and talking the...
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It’s puppy love: Little corgi lives up to her big photo
What we have here are a metal crate and fleece bed with a separate foam mattress to give it more squish. Well, and a baby fence and a carton of wee-wee pads, food and water bowls, three XS collars...
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Concerns greet music festival
Starting about right now, thousands of cars will pour along rural roads onto an 80-acre plot of Lane County parkland at the northern edge of the 2,363-acre Howard Buford Recreation Area that surrounds...
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Brewing enthusiast plans to spread the love of his labor
In a remarkably clean Noti garage, Denny Conn is poised before a hydrometer flask, checking the buoyancy of an opaque yellowish liquid. Taking careful notes and scrupulously cleaning his instruments,...
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Helping the disabled fish on
Craig Brown was planning his death when something surprising happened — fishing saved his life. Brown, of Springfield, is nearly blind and suffering from kidney failure that requires regular dialysis...
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Colts look for revenge on Aloha
With Thomas Tyner no longer on the Aloha roster, Thurston will have a shot at some redemption when they face the visiting Warriors in the Colts’ nonconference football opener on Friday night. The two...
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Millers are a year older and a year better
Expectations for the Springfield High football team are as high as they’ve ever been entering the 2013 season, and for good reason. The No. 5 Millers will try to duplicate their success from a year...
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HONORS
Altemus to undergo Navy basic training Bryce Altemus, son of Kurt and Cynthia Altemus of Springfield, recently enlisted in the U.S. Navy under the Delayed Entry Program in Portland. Altemus graduated...
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LETTERS IN THE EDITOR’S MAILBAG
Where’s the crisis? I am finding it very interesting to read about all the new schools being built when just a year or two ago they were having to lay off teachers and cut classes. Seems to me our...
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Briefly
Teens invited to learn about henna tattoos Young adults are invited to Teen Space at the Springfield Public Library between 2 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. today to learn about the art of henna tattoos with henna...
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