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Eugene 4J School District’s new superintendent is on the job, as of this week.

A new collaboration between PeaceHealth, Eugene transitional housing community Everyone Village and other groups will provide 10 recovery cottages and a clinic for people without a safe place to go after surgery.

Middle schoolers from across Lane County gathered in Eugene Thursday to show off and race battery-powered cars.

The Eugene 4J School District has found a potential buyer for a vacant bank it purchased last year that it had hoped to turn into its new headquarters.

A pair of Eugene 4J school board incumbents appear to have easily won in preliminary election results released Tuesday night. In Springfield, new faces were leading on election night.

Five candidates are running for two contested seats on the Eugene 4J School Board in this month’s election. Candidates say they’re running to protect public education from both federal and local funding challenges.

Facing declining enrollment, higher costs and dwindling federal support, Eugene 4J School District is poised to make between $17 million and $30 million in budget cuts.

Eugene 4J School District will be able to continue to allow classroom conversations around race and gender after a federal judge Thursday blocked the Trump administration’s threats to defund schools.

Over the last decade, several hundred Native American students and their families helped design, carve, and paint a series of totem poles for the Eugene 4J Schools’ NATIVES program. Five were installed outside Eugene schools, often with the burning of sage and traditional drumming. Now—after criticism from some other local Native people—those same poles will be removed.

The Eugene 4J School District has adopted a three-year contract with new superintendent Miriam Mickelson, which will allow her to join the district on July 1.

The Eugene 4J School District selected a former Northwest Washington administrator to serve as its new superintendent at a board meeting Wednesday.

This May, voters will decide who represents them at school, fire and water districts.