Getting traction
HARRISBURG — “Right here in beautiful, downtown Harrisburg.” That’s how Ray Jackman put it Saturday, as he stood in the middle of a dirt track off Peoria Road, wearing a…
Living Here
A regular Register-Guard column on the people, places and events that make Lane County, Oregon, a unique place to work and live
A mission of peace
All three were born and raised in small-town America, in places with names such as Monahans and Lock Haven and Winfield. All three served in World War II and are…
Devoted to birds
Louise Shimmel says it’s the year she became known as “the raptor person.” That was 1987, back when Shimmel began taking care of injured birds of prey — eagles, hawks,…
Staying in touch
He was the bright-eyed fourth-grader with a penchant for Legos, a kid who was maybe a little unsure of himself, who lost his father to prison three years earlier. She…
Relay for Life team makes cancer fight a family affair
It was late spring or early summer in 2002, and Erin Lynch (then Erin Bruce) was in a panic. Her mother, Mardi Bruce, then in her mid-40s, had just been…
Record breaker
She stands perpendicular to “the machine,” her eyes intent on the target. She kicks her left leg back a few times, like a stallion ready to bolt, lets out a…
Comeback kid
DEXTER – Cindy Curry remembers the day in 1989 when the toddler who used to bite her until she bled came back. “He came in with his hands clenched like…
Grasscar
OAKRIDGE – Ladies and gentlemen, start your – lawn mowers? No, it wasn’t the Indianapolis 500, and no one chugged a celebratory jug of milk after the waving of the…
A Civic engagement
He could have taken her out to dinner and hidden the ring in her dessert when she went to the ladies’ room. He could have hired a skywriter to puff…
Pre
40 years after the Oregon track legend’s death, the mysteries concerning his fatal car crash linger
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