Ed Russo
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Eugene, OR, United States
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Game of Regions: Contentious school merger spawns champion
LINEVILLE — Fans are encouraged to come onto the field before the football games at Central High School of Clay County and form two lines, creating → Read More
Brian Kelly edges Nick Saban for Coach of the Year
Notre Dame's Brian Kelly is The Associated Press college football Coach of the Year and the third coach to win the award twice since it was established in → Read More
Alabama is No. 1 at being No. 1 in AP poll
Alabama is No. 1 at being No. 1 in The Associated Press college football poll.The Crimson Tide made its 106th overall appearance at the top of the AP → Read More
Building a new generation of workers
With the economy humming and unemployment rates at modern-day lows, the labor shortage has long made it tough for certain industries to find employees. → Read More
Ford to leave Roseburg CEO job sooner than planned
Roseburg Chief Executive Allyn Ford will leave his CEO post on Sept. 1, three months earlier than planned. Ford, 74, previously indicated that he would stop working as CEO at the end of the year, which would have allowed Roseburg President Grady Mulbery to be both president and CEO. → Read More
Oregon funeral homes starting to sell DNA preservation to relatives
SPRINGFIELD — Call it DNA of the dead. A Springfield funeral home is selling a service that provides relatives with DNA of their deceased loved ones. Andreason’s Cremation & Burial Service and a Canadian laboratory firm are offering relatives the ability to purchase a DNA sample from a deceased person as a way to preserve the person’s DNA, or genetic record, before they are cremated. → Read More
Northwest Christian University reaches nursing education agreement with Lane Community College
Northwest Christian University has signed an agreement with Lane Community College to allow graduates of LCC’s nursing school to enroll in NCU’s bachelor of science of nursing degree program. Also, NCU has reached an agreement with Corvallis-based Samaritan Health Services to allow Samaritan’s registered nurses who have completed the system’s critical care internship program to apply those… → Read More
Federal regulators allege Eugene investment advisor misled clients, reaped excessive fees
The federal Securities and Exchange Commission has accused an Eugene investment adviser of steering clients to more expensive mutual fund investments, which produced more than $250,000 for the adviser and his now-defunct firm. The SEC on Tuesday announced it has begun administrative proceedings against Alison LLC and Stephen D. Alison. → Read More
Medford shopping center to get $12 million upgrade
MEDFORD — Construction is expected to start this month on a $12 million redevelopment of Medford Center, including more than 30,000-square feet intended for brewpubs and restaurants. The shopping center’s Los-Angeles-based owner, LBG Real Estate Companies, on Monday announced that the renovation will include the redesign of the central pedestrian promenade, which has been re-branded as “The… → Read More
Growing locally
The new Eugene Whole Foods looks to build relationships with farmers and producers → Read More
Hop Valley Brewing Co. being acquired by division of MillerCoors
Hop Valley Brewing Company., one of Eugene-Springfield’s craft beer success stories, will be acquired by a division of beer giant MillerCoors. Tenth and Blake Beer Company, the craft and import division of Chicago-based MillerCoors, on Friday announced that it has an agreement to obtain a majority interest in Hop Valley. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed in a joint news release from… → Read More
Statewide manufacturers group hires Eugene-based consultant
After a six-year absence, a statewide organization has put a consultant back in Eugene to help Lane County manufacturers become more competitive. The Oregon Manufacturing Extension Partnership has named a former manager at Burley Design to lead its manufacturing consulting work in the southern Willamette Valley, focusing mainly on Eugene and Lane County. OMEP is a nonprofit agency that provides… → Read More
Eugene Airport passenger totals continue year-long climb
The number of travelers in June at the Eugene Airport continued a year-long ascent, with a 10.3 percent increase compared to the same month a year ago. Last month, 93,181 passengers used the airport, an increase of 8,718 from the number of passengers in June 2015, the airport reported. Through the first six months of the year, passenger totals are up 29,774, or 6,9 percent, compared to the same… → Read More
Higher loan losses, set asides reduce Summit Bank profit
Higher losses on small business equipment loans lowered second-quarter profits for Summit Bank of Eugene. The bank on Friday reported that it had net income, or profit, of $684,000 in the three months ending June 30, compared to $820,000 in the second quarter of 2015. The bank said $1.26 million in profit for the first six months of the year equaled 53 cents a fully diluted share, compared to… → Read More
Business advice offered in Eugene, North Bend starting in August
A pair of regional community colleges are looking to help people start a business or to teach business owners how to improve relations with their employees. Lane Community College’s Small Business Development Center in Eugene is accepting people for its management program, designed for small-business owners or managers in larger organizations who want to improve their skills and interactions… → Read More
Second-quarter profit plunges for Eugene-based Pacific Continental Bank
Expenses, including those needed to acquire a Bellevue, Wash. bank, caused second-quarter profits to plunge by nearly half for the holding company of Pacific Continental Bank. Pacific Continental Corp., the bank’s holding company, on Wednesday reported a net income, or profit, of $2.6 million in the three months ended June 30, a 48 percent drop compared to $5 million in net income during the… → Read More
New Eugene hotel hiring employees, looking to open at end of summer
Kelly Wilken is looking for help so she can soon welcome people to downtown Eugene, as guests of the city’s newest hotel. So far, finding that help has been a tougher-than-expected task. Home2 Suites, a four-story, 120-room hotel at West 11th Avenue and Olive Street, is expected to open in late September, Wilken, the general manager, said Tuesday. → Read More
Longtime Eugene coin and jewelry reseller to open new store
After 31 years in business, Eugene Coin and Jewelry on Monday was to open its doors in a new location. The store, which buys and resells rare coins and vintage jewelry, over the weekend moved 10 blocks up Willamette Street to a building at 1416 Willamette. Eugene Coin and Jewelry had been located at 2472 Willamette Street, near Southtowne Lanes, which was destroyed in a fire last August. → Read More
Lane County homes on market continues to drop
Lane County home sale prices continued to rise in the first half of the year while the number of homes on the market and the amount of time it took to sell them continued to drop. The average home sale price through June rose 7.4 percent, from $241,300 last year to $259,100 this year, according to the latest figures from Portland-based Regional Multiple Listing Service. Meanwhile, the inventory… → Read More
Lane County, Oregon contractors get smaller workers’ comp insurance refund
More than 650 contracting and related firms across Oregon, including those in Lane County, will get a lower annual refund in workers’ compensation insurance premiums because of increased injuries. Businesses that participate in the Associated General Contractors/SAIF Workers’ Compensation Program will receive a $2.5 million refund from their 2014-15 plan year premium. At 8.3 percent of premiums… → Read More