eugeneweekly.com —  4+ hour, 52+ min ago

...Eugene City Manager Sarah Medary said the city had already decided to embrace the popularity of tiny homes and located a log cabin mounted on a flatbed... ...Eugene's City Hall is once again in question....

eugeneweekly.com —  4+ hour, 52+ min ago

...Phil Knight might have built a moat around the Jaqua Center and planted a forest around Autzen Stadium, but it's former Eugene Mayor Brian Obie who's... ...After Eugene City Council gave Obie Companies tax breaks, raised the height restrictions in the 5th Street Market area -- also known as Obie Town... ...Councilor Emily Semple also voted against the coronation, pointing out that, once again, "5th Street Market is not downtown.".... ...Councilor Mike Clark was one of the dissenting votes, grumbling that the council is giving more attention to the city's urban core than other areas...

eugeneweekly.com —  4+ hour, 52+ min ago

...Recent allegations of sexism and misogyny on the part of the male members of the Lane County Board of Commissioners has several of the more conservative... ...He said the vote earlier this year that prevented Vice Chair Laurie Trieger from becoming board chair, as is customary, was not sexist because, "... ...Commissioners Trieger and Heather Buch requested Loveall not bring the rifle to any more meetings, but were shouted down by Commissioners Pat Farr... ..., Ryan Ceniga and Loveall, who told them "not to worry their pretty little heads about it."...

eugeneweekly.com —  4+ hour, 53+ min ago

..."It's about time Eugene got back to its environmental roots," said Anne Marie Levis, chair of the Yes on Gaslighting campaign, which supported the... ...Following the unexpected success of a grassroots referendum campaign funded by NW Natural, all new business and residential construction in Eugene... ...Stock prices in Northwest Natural Holding Co., which owns NW Natural, rose 113 percent on the New York Stock Exchange following the announcement... ...Meanwhile, Eugene musician Mason Williams filed suit against the Gaslighting campaign for using his 1968 hit "Classical Gas" without paying royalties...

eugeneweekly.com —  4+ hour, 53+ min ago

...Behind the new full-length album The Land, The Water, The Sky, out on influential Midwest indie label Saddle Creek Records, Black Belt Eagle Scout... ...Now we can add to that list Katherine Paul's recording project, Black Belt Eagle Scout.... ...As Black Belt Eagle Scout, Paul, who is of Swinomish ancestry, an Indigenous population of western Washington State, became active in Portland's... ...During the pandemic, Paul returned to her family in the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community on Fidalgo Island in Puget Sound....

eugeneweekly.com —  4+ hour, 53+ min ago

..."Pickleball is like communism," a sweatband-wearing tennis player says.... ...On a sunny weekend morning, a group of tennis players and allies gather around the final tennis court in south Eugene to raise awareness that their... ...Among the tennis players" allies are some neighbors of Eugene's pickleball courts, who say the noise of the sport is overwhelming....

eugeneweekly.com —  4+ hour, 52+ min ago

...In The Register-Guard in 2015, I wrote the eulogy for our beloved Eugene Civic Stadium.... ...Today I'm writing about the demise of our beloved old newspaper -- The Register-Guard....

eugeneweekly.com —  4+ hour, 53+ min ago

...Business owner Barbie Walker is running for Eugene City Council in the May 16 special election against Lyndsie Leech, who currently holds the interim... ...seat, and Janet Ayres.... ...Walker says Ward 7, which consists of the Santa Clara, River Road, Trainsong and Whiteaker areas, has many underrepresented voices, and to not include... ...She co-owns Webfoot Bar and Grill and Pint Pot Public House with her husband, Justin Walker....

eugeneweekly.com —  4+ hour, 52+ min ago

...The program was two of the three candidates in the Eugene City Council Ward 7 May election, Lyndsie Leech and Barbie Walker.... .... On the Eugene Weekly shitlist: The folks behind the renewal of the Lane County Jail Levy.... ...Her bio on the SJ says she also supports the "Great Falls Tribune, Kitsap Sun and Pacific Daily News newsrooms."... ...Jail is the number one provider of mental health care in the county, according to Lane County Behavioral Health (LCBH), indicating a pattern of...

eugeneweekly.com —  4+ hour, 52+ min ago

...Following yearslong campaigning for the cities of Springfield and Eugene to add more roundabouts to major thoroughfares, a local environmentalist... ...has now become a major detractor of the traffic improvements after he was unable to exit the roundabouthe entered on Franklin Boulevard.... ...Apparently, while returning home in his Arcimoto FUV from a City Council meeting in which he attempted to dominate the public comment period, the... ...driver entered a roundabout and was confused as to how to exit and drove in circles until the electric vehicle ran out of power....