Lane County Area Spray Information
• Weyerhaeuser Company, 541-744-4600, plans to aerial and/or ground spray 1,307 acres near North Fork Smith River, Whittaker Creek, Ferguson Road, Nelson Mountain Road, Triangle … Continue reading
Year: 2018
A Fair Shakedown on Security
How OCF keeps the peace during the weekend
When tens of thousands of people gather in a field over the course of this long weekend in July and continue to circumnavigate the infinity … Continue reading
From Death to Life
A downtown mortuary building becomes a healing center
New life is invigorating a former mortuary in downtown Eugene as the Trauma Healing Project transforms once dark, windowless rooms into vibrant spaces for activities … Continue reading
Cabbies Are People, Too
What happens when Uber and Lyft take off again in Eugene?
Catching a cab is serious business. If you need to call a taxi and it takes forever and a day to arrive, or doesn’t arrive … Continue reading
Care For The Dead
To preview the Dead and Company show with an article (“The Living Dead,” William Kennedy, June 26) written by a guy who neither digs nor … Continue reading
Big Timber Atrocity
Lane County: a paradise of universities, rivers, gorgeous forests draped in lichens, good social programs, etc. It’s also a place being swallowed up by clearcuts … Continue reading
Don’t Pick On The Little Party
Bill Barnett’s letter (“Nader Blame,” 7/5) shows why it’s questionable that the Democratic Party will save us from a Trump re-election in 2020. Continuing to … Continue reading
Keep Punk Weird
First wave garage rock legends come to Eugene
With all the crust, noise and bluster, many fail to realize the extent to which surrealist and Dadaist art influenced bands of the original 1970s … Continue reading
All’s Fair
OCF 2018 Musical Lineup Features Strong Female Musicians
We love the Oregon Country Fair because it’s a place we go to be ourselves and where we can dance as if no one is … Continue reading
Slant
Rebel flags, auditor update and other rumor-chasing notes and musings
• What’s with the Confederate flags flying from a business near Florence over the weekend? A Eugenean friend of ours asked the Florence Chamber of … Continue reading