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Clayton Franke

Author: Clayton Franke

To Build or To Buy?

After completing the Farmer’s Market Pavilion and Plaza, the city once again turns its attention to City Hall 

News 10 months ago

When Sarah Medary started working for the city of Eugene in 1996 as a parks maintenance worker, one of her tasks was to tend to … Continue reading →

To Market, To Market

The city went all-in on the Farmers Market Pavilion and Plaza. But what does that mean for other projects in the town’s center and for the downtown budget?

News 11 months ago

It’s raining in downtown Eugene on a Saturday in early March. You need spring mix, carrots, celery and leeks to make a side salad for … Continue reading →

4/20 Celebration at the Hippie Museum

Venue summons stoners to downtown Springfield

BlogCannabisCultureEW-Extra 12 months ago

Who says 4/20 has to be just one day? To Normal Bean, a local music promoter and founder of Springfield’s Hippie Museum, the celebration is … Continue reading →

Peace at Last

Oregon Legislature inks SB 1546, creates Elliott State Research Forest 

News 1 year ago

The Oregon State Legislature may have passed a bill with a solution to one of the state’s long-standing timber wars.  On March 3, the Legislature … Continue reading →

Bull by the Fins

The solitary quest to catch Oregon's native bull trout on the fly

Travel 1 year ago

Clouds of dust leaped from the dirt road as I tromped steadily up a Forest Service road in the Deschutes National Forest. The fine dust … Continue reading →

The Elliott’s Potentially Peaceful Future

New bill would decouple the Elliott State Forest from the Common School Fund and create new research forest

News 1 year ago

Francis Eatherington’s iPad slides across the dash of her Subaru as she swings the car onto the 7700 road in the Elliott State Forest. The … Continue reading →

Not Too Far Out

Local hippies revitalize building in downtown Springfield, aim to preserve and progress counterculture movement

News 1 year ago

For most of his life as a hippie, Normal Bean has collected stuff: piles of music show posters, stacks of books and poetry, instruments, records … Continue reading →

It Takes a Village

New Safe Sleep site takes integrated-living approach to housing crisis

News 1 year ago

Gabe Piechowicz scans a 3.5-acre lot scattered with RVs and points to an area out in the open field. “That’s where the Ferris wheel will … Continue reading →

Here comes the RAIN

Oregon RAIN helps create small business ecosystem in Creswell

News 1 year ago

Just off of I-5, about 12 miles south of Eugene, is Blue Valley Bistro, what owner Seth Clark calls “the living-room of Creswell.” Inside the … Continue reading →

‘The moral question of our generation’

Time dwindling for Snake River salmon as Northwest leaders debate dam removal

News 1 year ago

For native Snake River salmon and steelhead, the river is a major migration highway. Beginning on the western slope of Wyoming’s Rocky Mountains, it twists … Continue reading →

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