From the Sunrise Café in Pleasant Hill to Manley’s Tavern at Crescent Lake Junction, Highway 58 is dotted with popular drive-ins, diners and dives, and there isn’t one of them that hasn’t suffered mightily during the past year
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Oakridge Library Reopens Under Newly Relaxed Rules for Stopping COVID-19 Spread
Masks are required and visitors must be limited, but the Oakridge City Library reopened Monday under Lane County’s newly relaxed COVID-19 restrictions. The long-awaited reopening was made possible by the Oregon Health Authority’s recategorization of the county from “extreme risk” to “high risk” for the spread of the coronavirus. The[Read More…]
Snow Doesn’t Stop Pleasant Hill Varsity at La Pine
The Pleasant Hill varsity football team defeated the La Pine varsity and Ridgeview junior varsity Saturday during a jamboree in La Pine. Senior team members pictured in the snow from left (standing) are Andrew Kobe, Kellen Parrish, Max Smith, Darrien Hill, Vinny Lima, Trey Putnam and (bottom row) Gabriel Hastings,[Read More…]
Pleasant Hill High School Is ‘Bringing Back Football’
‘When we received word that we could begin playing football, kids began smiling once again,’ Billies Coach Says, and School Board OKs Tennis Proposal
Around Town With Joy Kingsbury: I Lost a Friend
You know what it’s like to lose a friend. It is a sad time and a very all-alone feeling. She let me live in her house for almost 19 years. She loved me without question, tolerated my bad habits and placidly slept through my spells of absence and neglect. She tucked[Read More…]