Rachael McDonald
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City of Eugene hires new director of Public Works (opens the original)
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The City of Eugene has selected Jody Yates as its new Public Works director. Yates comes to Eugene from the Portland Bureau of Transportation, where she served four years as a Maintenance Operations group director. She brings 27 years of local government experience in Oregon, including work with Beaverton and Clackamas County. She will begin her new role in October, one year after the director position became vacant. “I am excited to be joining the Eugene community and leading the Public Works t
Tragic crash on I-84 prompts urging to slow down and move over in work zones (opens the original)
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Oregon transportation officials are urging drivers to pay attention, slow down, and give space in work zones on state freeways and highways. That's after a tragic crash earlier this week. A stranded driver was killed and an Oregon Department of Transportation employee was seriously injured Tuesday when a passing driver struck them alongside I-84 near Arlington. ODOT said its employee parked on the shoulder and activated warning lights and a reader board directing traffic to the far lane. He was
Smoke expected to creep into eastern Lane County (opens the original)
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The South Willamette Valley has avoided most air quality impacts of wildfire smoke this summer. But that’s expected to change this week. The Lane Regional Air Protection Agency (LRAPA) forecasts smoke from fires in Central and Eastern Oregon and Washington to drift into Lane County on Monday evening and into Tuesday morning. “That's where folks going to bed tonight, if they normally sleep with their windows open, it's maybe recommended that tonight's the night that we close those doors and windo
Teams from California, Australia, and New Zealand assist fire crews in Oregon (opens the original)
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There are more than 30 active fires in the state. That has put a significant stress on resources. Crews arrived from other states and countries to help with firefighting in Oregon this week. One of those crews headed to the Umpqua National Forest east of Tiller, where the Castle Fire–sparked by lightning on July 22–has grown to more than 1,700 acres. Devin Young, a public information officer with California Incident Management Team 3, told KLCC this is his team’s fourth time working in Oregon in
A University of Oregon literary magazine first published in the 1950s makes a comeback in the digital age (opens the original)
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A University of Oregon literary magazine that first published in 1957 and went out of print in 2011 was relaunched in June as a digital publication. The Northwest Review features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art. Brian Trapp is the editor-in-chief of the Northwest Review and he spoke with KLCC’s Rachael McDonald. Rachael McDonald: Would you tell us about the Northwest Review and its history? Brian Trapp: Yeah, it's one of the great literary magazines, university literary magazines of the 20t
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