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City installs ‘Welcome to Springfield’ sign on Gateway Street by ‘Flame’ sculpture
The new sign and landscaping around the “Flame” sculpture costs $76,000 and are being paid for with transient room taxes, which are fees added to hotel and vacation rental stays.
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Pedestrians and e-bikes on the same path. What could go wrong? | Letter to the editor
QuickTake: The 11 people now gardening at the River House Community Garden will be offered plots at the city's other community gardens, officials said. Rodents have also been a problem at the garden. As a regular cyclist using joint-use paths to get around town, I write this with great trepidation. There is a reason we […]
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3mNominations are open for new name for Chavez Elementary School
Eugene School District 4J will take the next four months to rename Cesar Chavez Elementary School.
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A guest column complained about homelessness on Highway 99. What's the big problem? | Letter to the editor
In response to Steve Gilbert’s guest column about the homeless destroying his neighborhood: Good. I hate how Eugene treats the homeless. Feel free to destroy any neighborhood you like, although I suspect that’s pure hysteria. He doesn’t say what that destruction is. I would guess it’s simply seeing the homeless. Respectable folks want the poor […]
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6mHere's what is missing in media coverage of the Eugene Clean Energy Fund
The most significant gap is that the coverage never connects this vote to the broader corporate campaign against climate action at the state and national levels.
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4mEugene’s new pro soccer club signs its first player, a former MLS draft pick
Defender Jonathan Robinson becomes the first name on the Sporting Cascades roster ahead of the team’s March debut.