Mayor Lucy Vinis lays out plans after declaring state of emergency Lane County has entered a state of emergency as of March 17. As a result, the city of Eugene has partnered with Lane County Public Health and Oregon Health Authority to combat the emergency. According to the city of Eugene’s official website, the two…
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced schools across the nation to take drastic action. Lane Community College will be following suit starting on finals week March 16-20. For finals week, tests will be given online and classes for the spring term will be held remotely through the first three weeks of the spring term according to…
Local performers deliver a powerful message through their art Bounce, Eugene’s gymnastics and circus-arts center, presented “Falling” and “Cirque Pollutia” at The Hult Center in front of hundreds on Feb. 15. Their aerial program instructors and students have performed at The Hult for the past seven years. Bounce’s in-house aerial company performs a contemporary circus…
LCC campaigns for $121.5 million bond Lane Community College’s Board of Education is pursuing the most ambitious bond in the school’s history of $121.5 million in May— nearly a 50 percent increase from the $83 million bond in November 2008. On Feb. 18, many board members present at the Board of Education meeting expressed that…
In 1971 when I began teaching Writing and Literature in the LCC English Department, I became good friends with Ben Kirk, a Science Department teacher now deceased at age 96. Ben had been awarded the honor of “The State of Michigan High-School Science Teacher of the Year” before moving to Oregon. Here he was assigned…
Six people from student government come forward with serious allegations On Tuesday, Feb. 18, in a recorded on-record interview with Margaret Hamilton, the President of Lane Community College, she declined to comment on the nature of the former Director of Student Engagement Donyel Hill’s sudden and quiet departure from his position between November 2019 and…
Six girls – four from Eugene – recovered from Portland-area hotel The Eugene Police Department held a press conference Monday, Feb. 24, at 1:30 p.m. in regard to the recovery of teen human trafficking victims in the Portland area on Feb. 20. Following a call reporting shots fired as well as “possible abduction of juveniles”…
Jazz music wafted through the air as a parade of people braved the cold in Eugene’s Whitaker neighborhood on a foggy winter night in 2009. They gathered to mourn the loss and celebrate the life of Theodore “Ted” Lee, otherwise known affectionately as “Papa.” When the restaurant opened its doors in 2006, Lee’s mission was…
Two months into the new decade and Oregon’s Department of Education has provided the state with great news: high school graduation rates increased, topping-off at 83.7 percent for students who graduated in four years. As Oregon Public Broadcasting quantified, this equates to “an increase of 600 students in the Class of 2019 who received a…
Student Activity Fee Committee seeks to fairly distribute funds to student groups Students tend to look at their tuition bills and wonder what student activity fees actually fund. The Student Activity Fee Committee is working toward demystifying and fairly allocating these funds with second-year Lane Community College student Laney Baehler at the helm. Student activity…
