Former military museum director pleads guilty to sexually abusing volunteer

Incumbent faces three challengers in race for four-year term on Florence City Council

Top issues for the candidates include housing affordability, easier permitting processes for businesses, and Flock Safety cameras.

Here's a better idea than the Lookout Editorial Board's on clean energy funding | Letter to the editor

In response to the Lookout Eugene-Springfield Editorial Board’s position on the Eugene Clean Energy Fund, here’s a possible option to make the ballot measure more appealing. The editorial board said the Eugene City Council should “start a community discussion about diverting at least half of the estimated $15 million annual fund to put it to […]

Drazan campaign's anti-Kotek billboards are demeaning | Letter to the editor

Each day I drive on Highway 126 and cannot avoid the billboard ads paid for by Christine Drazan’s gubernatorial campaign. A close-up photo of Gov. Tina Kotek looking embarrassed/morose (AI-generated?) with the caption: “Is THIS working?” I find calling our governor “THIS” demeaning, meant as a double entendre, a reference to a nonperson or worse. […]

Weekly Cottage Grove newspaper to stop publishing after more than a century

The Cottage Grove Sentinel, a 137-year-old weekly newspaper in southern Lane County, will cease publication after its Wednesday, Oct. 28, edition, the paper announced last week.

Our climate emergency is also a health emergency. Vote like it. | Letter to the editor

I believe we can all acknowledge that the climate is warming. This year will be one of the warmest on record, and the biggest El Niño ever seen will most likely make next year the warmest in recorded history. Oregon is in a decade-plus drought and this year was the worst fire season in modern […]