Re-Imagine Earth Day returns 1 pm to 5 pm Sunday, April 19 to the Farmer’s Market Pavilion, as an all-ages event focused on reuse, sustainability and everyday environmental action.
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“Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.” — Gloria Steinem
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Getting to New York City for a three-hour recording session was a whirlwind of a trip for Eugene-based jazz saxophonist Joe Manis.
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11 am to 6pm On Saturday, April 18, Washington Jefferson Park is the place to be for skateboarding competitions, snacks, live punk rock and mental health resources, all putting on a huge party for Ben Moody’s Birthday Skate Celebration.
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Dissonant Times, a grassroots local news outlet, celebrates its one-year anniversary with comedy, punk rock and more, April 18 at Dark Pine Coffee.
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Kate Gran smiles with her eyes. Her dad, Eric Gran, has wrinkles and graying hair and the same smile as his daughter. It’s 25 degrees outside in Eugene the day reporter Grace Mangali interviewed them.
The two traveled to Nepal together to prove their bond is stronger at the top of a mountain.
Sundaram, fourth-year journalism student and photo editor for The Daily Emerald, has worked to document the Eugene protests. He’s learned that being a journalist doesn’t protect him from the harsh response from federal agents who have targeted demonstrators.
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One of downtown Eugene’s least attractive buildings — the four-story red-brick cube at 10th Avenue and Oak Street — has been given a facelift that makes it, if anything, even less appealing.
Read more in Eugene Weekly’s Bricks $ Mortar.
Witness: Earth & Sky and Consume & Dispose, the two exhibits at Maude Kerns this month, feature four artists: Rolf Huber and Jennifer Bucheit in Consume & Dispose and Amanda Thomas and Rich Bergeman in Witness: Earth & Sky.
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6pm This Friday, April 17 at the Annex Eugene, Thunderegg Records provides young, up-and-coming local and student-artists with an opportunity to showcase their unique talents to the community.
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More than 100 years ago, Oregon waged a war on wolves to the point where they were extirpated — becoming extinct in the state. These days, wolves are back and growing stronger.
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We asked kids in Lane County to draw for Eugene Weekly’s Earth Day issue and we’re feeling pretty inspired by the responses! When it comes to the future of our Earth, we’re in good hands. Turns out, the kids are gonna be alright after all.
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“In early 2026, a student whistleblower leaked information from a closed-door meeting at the University of Oregon, where administrators proposed selling dirty energy generated from fracked gas to our local public utility as sustainability.” writes Declan Zupo.
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A few years ago, PeaceHealth closed the emergency department at the University District hospital in Eugene. All emergency care was consolidated across the river.
Read more from former Eugene city councilor Shawn Boles in a Local and Vocal Eugene Weekly viewpoint.
Spring is a great time to explore the streams, forests and flowers of the central Oregon Coast Range, and I can’t think of many places better than Sweet Creek to enjoy the first full month of spring.
Read this month’s hiking column in Eugene Weekly by Chandra LeGue.
“I think dogs are wonderful, but their owners’ choices strain my affection, and it’s a very Eugene thing."
Occasional columnist Doyle Srader is going to get some letters to the editor about his Local and Vocal opinion column on dogs in Eugene Weekly.
Lane County’s wood-products barons are filling a war chest to help politically right-leaning candidates in the May 19 elections for the Lane County Board of Commissioners.
Read more from Eugene Weekly columnist Christan Wihtol on the money in the Lane County Commission race.
Experience the richness of culture and community and join the 4th Annual Zimbabwe Marimba Party to benefit the nonprofit Humwe: The Cosmas Magaya Cultural Arts and Education Centre, which runs rural youth programs in Zimbabwe.
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If you drive by the Federal Building in downtown Eugene, chances are you’ve seen protesters on the sidewalks surrounding the building every day, holding signs condemning ICE’s immigration enforcement tactics and, more recently, the war in Iran.
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Arcimoto, the long-sputtering electric-vehicle company, is being evicted from the factory it occupies in west Eugene.
Read the rest in Eugene Weekly in Christian Wihtol’s Bricks $ Mortar.
Activist Alert! The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.” — Marcus Aurelius
• Canvasser training sessions for Lane County Watersheds, 7 pm April 9 and 13, and 6 pm April 14, Growers Market 454 Willamette Street.
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A new Eugene jazz group, Anomalous Trio, debuts this weekend with two shows, 7 pm Friday, April 10 at Oregon Wine LAB, and 8 pm Saturday, April 11 at Art House.
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Eugene Public Library’s annual giant book sale is on Saturday, April 11, 9 am to 4 pm, and Sunday, April 12, 10 am to 3 pm.
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Potted tulips stand ready for a fundraising event to feed people in Gaza.
The event is 9 am to 2 pm Friday, April 10, and Saturday, April 11, at Valley Covenant Church
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Opinions! Opinions! Opinions! Find out what Lane County has to say from hospitals to turbines to dogs in a Local and Vocal round up!
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