Removing Snake Dams ‘Essential’ for Threatened Salmon
By Clark Corbin A new draft report released by President Joe Biden’s administration last week found that breaching lower Snake River dams is “essential” to...
A Supreme Rally
About 1,000 protesters stood outside of the Wayne Morse Federal Courthouse in Eugene, holding up signs and chanting in support of Roe v. Wade and...
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...
Beyond Toxics 8th Annual Bee Jazzy
It’s National Pollinator Week, and Beyond Toxics is prepared. The sweet jazz vocals of Halie Loren and her quartet, along with the guitar playing of...
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...
Running And Walking For Peace In Our Time
Wars and bloodshed have been with us always — that is something that Sharon Tabor, a volunteer with the Palmo Center for Peace and Education,...
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...