On Jan. 13, 2021, The Torch Editor-in-Chief Chandlor Henderson had a chance to sit with Lane Community College President Margaret Hamilton and Vice President Paul Jarrell. The main topic covered was Measure 20-306, which provided the school $121.5 million in bond money. Henderson: How did you become the president of the school? Hamilton: There’s a…
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…
State politicians, faculty members, and students stood beneath the dilapidated “17” on the steps of the weathered building of the same name on Lane’s main campus on Jan. 21. Among them were Lane President Dr. Margaret Hamilton, Springfield Mayor Christine Lundberg, and Oregon State Representative Marty Wilde. They were gathered to gain support for a…
