Category Community

SPRINGFIELD – For 39 years, PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Hospice has remembered loved ones with gifts of light on a beautiful Christmas tree. Community members are encouraged to join us for this ceremony on Sunday, Dec. 14, at 2 p.m. in the hospital lobby of PeaceHealth Sacred…

Report: Holiday spending to reach $263B, with $109 N opportunity in revenue for small businesses. The 2025 holiday shopping season is here—and shoppers are ready to splurge, according to this year’s Holiday Shopping Survey published by Intuit QuickBooks. Despite anxious whispers of tariffs and inflation,…

Thanksgiving Leftover Soup Stock, submitted by Jo Rodgers (2023)

Lane County Youth Services invites the community to the 16th annual FREE community holiday meal on Wednesday, December 3. The meal, open to everyone, is from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Lane County Youth Services at 2727 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Eugene, and…

SPRINGFIELD – Members of the Springfield Twin Rivers Rotary chapter help construct new playground equipment it donated at Family Relief Nursery on Friday, Nov. 14.

SPRINGFIELD – The Kohl family is conducting a shoe drive fundraiser from Nov. 17, 2025, to Jan. 17, 2026, to raise money for the adoption fees of a child with Down syndrome. The family will earn funds based on the total weight of the pairs…

Rates of influenza vaccination among health care workers in Oregon plummeted over the last five respiratory virus seasons, raising the risk of infection for patients, according to new Oregon Health Authority (OHA) data. To increase vaccination rates, public health recommendations encourage health care workers –…

SPRINGFIELD – Our Community Birth Center, a nonprofit midwifery birth center at 188 W. B St. in Springfield, was awarded a grant through Cow Creek Umpqua Indian Foundation and Oregon Health Authority to support its collaboration with Black Thistle Street Aid to provide reproductive healthcare…

EUGENE — Travel Lane County has launched a community survey as part of its Destination Master Plan process, inviting residents across Lane County to share their perspectives on tourism’s role in our region. The Destination Master Plan, now entering its research phase, is a 10-year…