Author: Henry Houston

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...

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...