Here are Santa appearances happening during the final week before Christmas across Eugene, Bend, Roseburg, Coos Bay, Yachats, Newport, and Salem.

This week our quiz is all about possessives: think Mary's Peak, Thor's Well, or indeed, Oregon's most puzzling quiz! Will Jason from Eugene's answers be correct, or will he find himself at his wit's end?

Booksellers from Eugene, Corvallis, and Bend share book recommendations for the holiday season.

A new nonprofit pinball arcade has opened its doors near downtown Eugene.

Following a consultant's report, advocates for a more vibrant downtown Eugene are using the holiday season to join together and put some new ideas in motion.

This week every question has two clues, and the second answer is the first answer in Pig Latin. For example: an awkward brute, and an expenditure, would be a lout, and an outlay. Will Kurtis from Eugene successfully avigatenay our inguisticlay abyrinthlay?

Spectrum's closure left a noticeable gap in the city’s LGBTQ+ scene. Now, a year later, Eugene’s queer community has adapted, using other local clubs and bars to host pop-up events.

For Giving Tuesday we talk with Public Radio stations and entities impacted by the congressional defunding of public media. We talk with Luke Burbank of Live Wire radio, Jack Harris and Mari Bergeron of KMUN in Astoria and Sue Matters of KWSO on the Warm Springs Reservation.

We talk with Oregon Contemporary Executive and Artistic Director Blake Shell and Sitka Center for Art and Ecology Executive Director Alison Dennis about their collaboration after Oregon Contemporary lost promised funding from the National Endowment For The Arts. Its a story of how local organizations need each other now more than ever in the shadow of shaky federal funding.

On this edition we talk with Senator Ron Wyden about his work to restore the Coast Guard Rescue Helicopter to Newport and we talk with a member of the Lakeview town council, Jess Calvin, about a PG calendar they created to raise money for the town.