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Camilla Mortensen
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Editor of Eugene Weekly, journalism instructor at University of Oregon, and Lane Community College The Torch advisor. Dogs and horses. Sometimes cats sneak in.
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Local furs were walking during the lights parade in Eugene last weekend
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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · 13d
Eugene Weekly's 2025 Fall Chow issue is out now! Go grab one at your nearest red box and read about Mexican spices, Indian savories and food with an impact.
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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · 13d
Dining out is out of reach for some members of the community who struggle to feed themselves, and at the same time, the food service industry itself can be a gateway into jobs and financial stability.
Read about Reality Kitchen, the Eugene Mission and Burrito Brigade in Eugene Weekly’s Chow issue!
Eating with an Impact
Dining out is out of reach for some members of the community who struggle to feed themselves, and at the same time, the food service industry itself can be a gateway into jobs and financial stabili…
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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · 13d
Nelson’s Taqueria food truck — and its neighboring restaurant Nelson’s in the Whit — are staples of the Whiteaker neighborhood. The food truck has been serving burritos, quesabirria tacos and other classic Mexican dishes for 10 years.

Read about Nelson’s in Eugene Weekly’s quarterly Chow issue!
Nelson’s Comes to Campus
Nelson’s Taqueria food truck — and its neighboring restaurant Nelson’s in the Whit — are staples of the Whiteaker neighborhood. The food truck has been serving burritos, quesabirria tacos and other…
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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · 12d
On the morning of Sept. 10, Sarah Reighley, a woman who was born Deaf, arrived at BestMed Urgent Care on West 11th Avenue seeking medical assistance for a bleeding head wound after hitting her head against a wall.

Read the rest of the story in Eugene Weekly.
‘What If It Had Been Life-Threatening?’
On the morning of Sept. 10, Sarah Reighley, a woman who was born Deaf, arrived at BestMed Urgent Care on West 11th Avenue seeking medical assistance for a bleeding head wound after hitting her head…
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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · 12d
The Eugene BRiGHT Parade returns Sept. 27, 7:15 pm to 8:30 pm. It is a free family-friendly event in downtown Eugene featuring a brightly illuminated showcase of human and electric-powered art.
Read more in Eugene Weekly’s What’s Happening Calendar!
Turn on the Bright Lights
The Eugene BRiGHT Parade returns Sept. 27. It is a free family-friendly event in downtown Eugene featuring a brightly illuminated showcase of human and electric-powered art. This year’s theme is “S…
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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · 12d
Jana Rygas was an active political organizer and strategist who contributed to civics in Eugene for decades.

Read about Jana Rygas’ life and work in Eugene Weekly.
The Life and Legacy of Jana Rygas: June 2, 1954 – March 27, 2025
“In campaigns, there’s a lot of pressure to be perfect all the time,” former Eugene mayor Kitty Piercy says. But in her 2004 campaign, Piercy says that Jana Rygas helped her “to joke and make fun o…
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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · Sep 6
He is your British everyman in Oregon — learning baseball during Symphony Night at a recent Eugene Ems game and knowing enough about local sports to say “Go Ducks” at the drop of a hat. He’s Alex Prior, and you can’t miss him on the podium, not with his shock of hair and flamboyant clothing styles.
From Britain To Eugene — Buckle Up
He is your British everyman in Oregon — learning baseball during Symphony Night at a recent Eugene Ems game and knowing enough about local sports to say “Go Ducks” at the drop of a hat. He’s the 33…
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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · Sep 5
Singer-songwriter Nellie McKay (yep you’ve heard her on Grey’s Anatomy) takes listeners on a trip down memory lane — her own memory, that is — when she performs in support of her new album at The Shedd on Sept. 10.
Time Traveler
Two decades and a couple years ago, a much-younger version of singer-songwriter Nellie McKay showed up for a New York recording session with the late sound engineer and producer Geoff Emerick. McKa…
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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · Sep 5
Read all the upcoming protests, letter writing, trainings and marches in Eugene Weekly’s Activist Alert!
Activist Alert
“We long to have a home where civil freedoms are respected, where our children will not be subject to mass surveillance, abuse of human rights, political censorship and mass incarceration.” — …
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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · Sep 6
The huckleberries are ripe at Diamond Peak! Pick your fill along an easy 0.8-mile trail to Notch Lake. For a longer hike or a backpacking trip, continue another 3.2 miles to the spectacular alpine scenery at Divide Lake.

Read William L. Sullivan’s Oregon Trails for more on how to hike Divide Lake.
Diamond in the Rough
The huckleberries are ripe at Diamond Peak! Pick your fill along an easy 0.8-miles trail to Notch Lake. For a longer hike or a backpacking trip, continue another 3.2 miles to the spectacular alpine…
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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · Sep 7
Readers reach out with messages touching and fierce. Read them all in Eugene Weekly’s Letters to the Editor.
From Fathers to ICE to Gaza in Letters
A Message That Strikes Home I was moved reading the words of Daniel Kahn’s father (EW, 8/21). The man killed by Springfield police and his plea that we see people with mental illness as human. It h…
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Camilla Mortensen @camillamortensen.bsky.social · Sep 2
It’s newsletter writing time — what local topic or random thread shall I go off on tonight?
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James Croxton @jwcroxton.bsky.social · Aug 29
NEW from DSM: Yesterday, 15 press organizations sent a letter to Eugene's mayor, the chief of police, and the International Association of Police Chiefs regarding the EPD's use of press markers in an incident documented by filmmaker Tim Lewis on Aug. 12.

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15 Press Organizations Send Letter To Eugene Mayor and Police Chief Regarding Public Information Coordinator ‘Press’ Controversy
Yesterday, Aug. 28, more than a dozen press organizations sent a letter to Mayor Kaarin Knudson and Eugene Police Department’s Chief Chris Skinner admonishing Public Information Program Coordinator…
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Camilla Mortensen @camillamortensen.bsky.social · Aug 27
One of the weirder — & harder — things about being a journalist is seeing the names of people you know in press releases, especially when it's a car wreck or crime.
I steel myself whenever it's local.

Related but unrelated, I need to drop by court today in the embezzlement case.
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Camilla Mortensen @camillamortensen.bsky.social · Aug 20
I have definitely interviewed the ELF folks and agree the suggestion is weird. Feel free to drop by and chat next you do Eugene coverage.
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Camilla Mortensen @camillamortensen.bsky.social · Aug 11
Our Eugene Weekly reporter dug up this info through digging and public records requests.

I’m wondering what you call journalism that comes in claiming an area is a news desert and then half the stories it does are lifted and redone from the news outlets that actually exist?

News mirage?
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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · Jul 31
A potential buyer has stepped up for the shuttered PeaceHealth University District hospital in Eugene.
Read more from Christian Wihtol in Eugene Weekly’s Bricks $ Mortar.
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Student Housing May Replace Eugene’s PeaceHealth hospital
A potential buyer has stepped up for the shuttered PeaceHealth University District hospital in Eugene. Georgia-based Landmark Properties, one of the nation’s biggest apartment developers, wants to …
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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · Aug 8
Shortly before 4 pm Thursday, August 7, a vegetation fire was reported along Highway 58 near milepost 37, just east of the city of Oakridge and about 40 miles from Eugene-Springfield. By 4:08 pm a “Go Now!” Level 3 evacuation order was issued for Dunning Road residents and Hwy 58 was soon shut down.
Fire Near Oakridge and Old Hazeldell Quarry Site
Shortly before 4 pm Thursday, August 7, a vegetation fire was reported along Highway 58 near milepost 37, just east of the city of Oakridge and about 40 miles from Eugene-Springfield. By 4:08 pm a …
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Camilla Mortensen @camillamortensen.bsky.social · Aug 7
How did I forget the armed bachelors?
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Matt Canham @mattcanham.bsky.social · Jul 29
The Seattle Times is hiring a D.C. correspondent. I'm excited to see this great paper once again reporting from our nation's capital. seattletimes.applytojob.com/apply/oVo010...
D.C. Correspondent - The Seattle Times - Career Page
We’re seeking a a D.C.-based correspondent to uncover how federal power touches lives in the Pacific Northwest!
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Camilla Mortensen @camillamortensen.bsky.social · Jul 25
Why yes … I did drive a race car. Slowly. In a race.
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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · Jul 18
I clutched the steering wheel — my hands dutifully at 10 and 2 — and stared through the bug-spattered windshield at the race track in front of me. The engine puttered along, and I smelled rubber on the road, oil and a whiff of a hot transmission.

Read about racing with 24 Hours of Lemons in EW.
When Life Gives you Lemons 
I clutched the steering wheel — my hands dutifully at 10 and 2 o’clock — and stared through the bug-spattered windshield at the race track in front of me. The engine puttered along, and I smelled r…
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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · Jul 18
Bi-Mart appears to be closing its store on Willakenzie Road in northeast Eugene. The Eugene-based general-merchandise chain hasn’t announced the closure. But the owner of the store building, a family based in Sisters, has put the property up for lease.
Bi-Mart Closing Willakenzie store?
Bi-Mart appears to be closing its store on Willakenzie Road in northeast Eugene. The Eugene-based general-merchandise chain hasn’t announced the closure. But the owner of the store building, a fami…
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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · Jul 21
My heart feels deeply broken by the hatred and deep cruelty — especially concerning our asylum seekers, migrants and immigrants — and the vindictiveness of our current administration.

Read more in a Local and Vocal viewpoint by Victoria Koch.
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
By Victoria Koch My heart feels deeply broken by the hatred and deep cruelty — especially concerning our asylum seekers, migrants and immigrants — and the vindictiveness of our current administrati…
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Camilla Mortensen @camillamortensen.bsky.social · Jul 25
Open a bar, head up some protests, run for Congress…
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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · Jul 22
“If I ever come home and I said ‘I want to start a restaurant or a bar,’ divorce me,’” Boris “Bo” Wiedenfeld-Needham always told his wife years ago. The latter did not happen, but he did open a bar in February.

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Jazz and Wine with a Side of Politics
“If I ever come home and I said ‘I want to start a restaurant or a bar,’ divorce me,” Boris “Bo” Wiedenfeld-Needham always told his wife years ago. The latter did not happen, but he did open a bar …
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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · Jul 24
Eugene Cuisine From Ethiopian food trucks to Eastern European restaurants, and from local burgers to Midwest staples, find it all locally — and in Chow!

Read this week’s issue for stories on Makeda’s Cuisine, JJ’s on Maxwell, Gotcha Burger and Domek.
Chow – Eugene Weekly
The idea of Domek started with a walk through a freezer section in a chain grocery store that made chef Andrew Hroza a little homesick … Continue reading →
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