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State legislators to hold town hall meeting State Sen. Lee Beyer and state Reps. Phil Barnhart and John Lively will host a town hall gathering at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Council Chamber at City Hall, 225 Fifth St.

Incidents FRIDAY, MARCH 22 Criminal trespass: 6:02 p.m., South Fern and Booth Kelly Road. Four teenage boys were seen “playing chicken” with a train. The caller said one of the boys was wearing a mask. 1Suspicious conditions: 5:07 p.m., 600 block South 34th Street.

The University of Oregon will host the Pepsi Team Invitational on Saturday with Texas A&M, Washington and Washington State making the trip to Hayward Field. Former Springfield High track and field standouts Tim Costin and Daphne Chambers might make their season debuts for Oregon.

Jonathan Emerald has all the momentum. Barreling down the runway, soaring for rebounds or leaving linebackers in the dust, the Springfield High standout has put together an undeniably impressive senior year for the Millers.

You don’t have to be a competitive athlete to benefit from the care of a sports medicine doctor. Sports-related injuries — such as a sprain, strain or broken bone that happens because of physical activity — can happen to anyone, regardless of age or fitness level.

A rain garden is a great way to add beauty to your landscape and improve water quality at the same time. Rain gardens are sunken garden beds that collect and treat runoff from rooftops, driveways and lawns.

I’m thinking it’s either Walter Matsui or Betty Boo who mortally wounded a mouse in the wee still hours of a morning and didn’t polish it off. As hit men go, they get an F.

EDITOR’S NOTE: In Case You Missed It is a digest of recent Register-Guard articles of interest to Springfield readers.

By her petite stature you’d never guess that Thurston High School senior Natalie Kronser has a mezzo-soprano voice that can fill a stage and auditorium.

Thelma Oceguera-­Barone grew up in Culican, Mexico, in the northwestern state of Sinaloa. Her high school was attached to the state university; students at her school, inspired by activists at the university, organized protests against governmental abuse and oppression of indigenous people.