The Y’s New Digs
To celebrate its new building, the Eugene Family YMCA is unleashing its new fitness class: shoveling. After years of fundraising and despite recent inflation ballooning...
Eugene Begins Downtown Plans
Immediately after celebrating the opening of two major projects, Riverfront Park and the Farmer’s Market Pavilion, the Eugene City Council voted unanimously at a June...
Too Hype to Fail
Wolf of Wall Street, a film by Martin Scorsese, tells the story of a stockbroker who strikes it rich by defrauding wealthy investors out of...
A Loveall for Guns
As hundreds of protesters peacefully marched through Springfield during June 6, 2020, Black Lives Matter-related protest, the group avoided the city’s Main Street, intimidated by...
Elementary, My Dear Oak Hill
School’s out for high school students at the small private Oak Hill School. The pre-K-12 grade school is closing its high school grades, capping its...
‘Working Class Champion’
On April 27, the Lane, Coos, Curry, Douglas Building Trades Council announced that its first-ever “Working Class Champion” award was given to Lane County Commissioner...
Lane County’s Plan to Cut Emissions Approved
Less than two weeks before Earth Day, the Lane County Board of Commissioners OK’d a plan on April 12 that could cut the county’s greenhouse...
White Supremacist Jacob Laskey Has Parole Revoked
Notorious white supremacist Jacob Laskey is headed back to prison for what was described at a recent court date as “out of control” meth use,...
Standing for the Flag
While on a walk with his wife, Keith Eddins noticed the flags outside of Hayward Field were tattered. That was days after Russia’s Feb. 24...
Schools Go Mask Optional
Masks in schools have been a contentious subject, often leading to school board meeting disruptions and harassment. On Feb. 28, Oregon state leaders lifted mask...