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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 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years 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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