Lookout Eugene-Springfield

The grass curled when a torch set it alight.

Ash fell, fire freeing nutrients to the ground: a fertilizing gift to the next generation, as the last one gave to it.

What is it like to live and farm here, I wondered, taking in views of central Washington’s landscape of round green fields of corn and alfalfa, each with a center-pivot irrigator on its radius. I’m familiar with farming in the Midwest and the Willamette Valley, but this looked like an entirely different process.

A hundred miles farther, I had the same question, exc...

Eugene police responded to WinCo Foods on Barger Drive the evening of Friday, Sept. 18, for what was determined to be a firework wrapped in duct tape. 

Police responded to the store at 4275 Barger Drive for a report of a suspicious device, according to a news release sent by the department at about 10:45 p.m. Friday.

The device was left on a cart return i...

We have all experienced the thought of wanting to change something about ourselves. We want to lose weight or get more physically fit or just feel better. So we think, “I will eat healthier or walk more frequently or find ways to reduce stress in my life.”

We then set about doing something different for a few days or a few weeks, and then we fall back into the sam...

Melvyn Oberman, 88, of Eugene, Oregon, died Monday, Sept. 14, 2026, from cancer. Ash burial will be at Eugene Masonic Cemetery. Andreason’s Cremation & Burial Service is handling the arrangements.

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