How these Nashville businesswomen became Instagram famous

By Rachel Rippetoe – Editorial Intern, Nashville Business Journal Jul 3, 2018, 7:30am CDT Updated Jul 3, 2018, 9:11am As Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin sat on a Gulch patio one morning, Teplin donned a slouchy grey sweatshirt with white letters across the chest that read “not a fashion blogger.” The shirt sells for $70 on the website for their […]

How Metro plans to keep up as Bird and its competitors flock to Nashville

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Report: Nashville job growth could cost employers millions in turnover

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Letter from the Editor: UP’s sexist culture starts and ends at the top

An analysis in the aftermath of the Wallys By Rachel Rippetoe | May 3, 2018 8:53am University of Portland President Fr. Mark Poorman wrote a good second apology. I sat on the opposite side of the room as he read it aloud at the April 17 Academic Senate meeting in Franz Hall. It did all the good […]

Poorman apologizes for his inaction, promises to do more

By Rachel Rippetoe | April 17, 2018 6:12pm University of Portland President Fr. Mark Poorman apologized to students, parents, regents, faculty and staff late Tuesday afternoon, in response to accounts of a racially and sexually insensitive speech given during Sunday’s Wally Awards. Poorman has been widely criticized for sitting in the front of the room and not intervening. […]

Making Strides: Six years of Athletics under Scott Leykam

By Rachel Rippetoe | April 4, 2018 10:27pm The photographs hanging on the walls of Vice President for Athletics Scott Leykam’s office change. The shot of men’s cross country head coach Rob Connor standing on a podium in 2014 will soon be replaced with a similar but more recent photo of the team winning second place […]

Rocky Start: Health and Counseling Center frustrates some with lack of transparency

By Rachel Rippetoe | December 14, 2017 5:42pm Some students may have been surprised by the additional $75 per semester Health and Counseling fee tabbed onto their tuition invoices. Many likely didn’t notice at all. But the new fee, introduced at the beginning of the school year, comes at an awkward transitional time for the Health […]

Crowd marches against hate

By Rachel Rippetoe Posted Aug 15, 2017 at 12:01 AM More than 1,500 people gathered at the Erb Memorial Union Amphitheater at the University of Oregon to begin a “Hate Is Not Welcome in Lane County” march to downtown Eugene on Monday. The grass-roots event was organized in two days by six Eugene residents, most of them former or […]

Fire rages at local mill

By Rachel Rippetoe Posted Aug 14, 2017 at 12:01 AM JUNCTION CITY — Firefighters from 11 midvalley fire agencies rushed to a predawn fire Sunday at the Wood Recovery Lumber Mill near Highway 99N at 29229 Milliron Road. The fire was reported at 1:49 a.m. Sunday. A log deck and warehouse were among the parts of the business burning […]

Swaddled in finery

Angel Gowns help bring comfort to grieving families of newborns 9/10 – Karen Freeman of Angel Gowns Oregon hangs donated wedding dresses in her living room for the other Angel Gown makers to see. (Rhianna Gelhart/The Register-Guard) By Rachel Rippetoe The Register-Guard APPEARED IN PRINT: WEDNESDAY, AUG. 23, 2017, PAGE A1 Mandie Badaloni recalls her first miscarriage as […]

Dead pets remain among ruins of mobile home fires

Neighbors say the smell is so bad sometimes that “it just bowls you over” 1/9 – Three mobile homes burnt to the ground in Bella Casa Mobile Home Park in Pleasant Hill, Ore. on July 18,2017. The remains of the homes, which contain asbestos, have not yet been cleared. The neighbors claim that there are remains […]

A tiny solution

A Springfield man gets creative in dealing with sky-high rent 1/7 – Sam Koekkoek stands in the tiny house he built with the help of friends, family and lots of YouTube videos. Koekkoek plans to live in his tiny house in Seattle while he attends graduate school at The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. (Rhianna […]

Soliciting hope

Eugene patients turn to GoFundMe to ease burden of medical costs 1/2 – Tim Fink gives his wife, Molly, a kiss as she rests in her bed at Avamere Riverpark of Eugene. The couple have used GoFundMe as a resource to help raise money for the medical expenses associated with Molly Fink’s brain injuries. (Rhianna Gelhart/The […]

Hospital volunteers are valuable assets

2/2 – “Your taxi ride is here,” Jim Aasum jokes to patient Harley Nealey, 77, after a lengthy stay at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend. Aasum, 87, volunteers at the hospital and loves to lift the spirits of patients on discharge day. (Brian Davies/The Register-Guard) By Rachel Rippetoe The Register-Guard APPEARED […]

Daughter, teenager rescue woman from house fire

1/14 – Shirley Henson is consoled by her neighbors after her house went up in flames. Henson was inside the house at the time of the fire and was able to safely make it out with the help of Nolan Nease, a teenager that had been in the area at the time, and her daughter Jean […]

A (tiny) forever home

UO students to create a place for Alice Gentry to call her own 1/5 – University of Oregon students Paige Portwood and Samantha Freson meet Alice Gentry (center) for the first time on Tuesday afternoon at Opportunity Village in Eugene. Portwood and Freson are helping to build Gentry’s new tiny home in the Emerald Village that […]

Student driver hits gas, crashes into church

2/3 – A Nissan Minivan crashed into the side of Springfield Faith Center on Sunday night. According to Chief Battalion Ben Meigs, there were no injuries, but the hazmat team was called out due to a severed fuel line and concerns that the fuel spilling into the building could ignite and create an explosion. (Rhianna Gelhart/The […]

Mother faces neglect charges after allegedly leaving 2 children in car

Nikia Angelique Modrell of Springfield was arrested; the kids were in the hot, unattended car for 25 minutes 1/2 – Nikia Angelique Modrell is arrested on two misdemeanor counts of child neglect after leaving her two daughters locked in a black Infiniti sedan for 25 minutes in a Walmart parking lot in Springfield on Sunday afternoon. […]

Victim of fire listed in good condition

The Pleasant Hill man ran through a “wall of fire” in a mobile home to safety on Monday By Rachel Rippetoe The Register-Guard APPEARED IN PRINT: WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 2017, PAGE B1 Dan Sallaz PLEASANT HILL — A Pleasant Hill man, who ran through a “wall of fire” Monday morning to escape a three-alarm mobile home blaze, […]

Pleasant Hill fire injures 1,destroys 3 mobile homes

The cause has not been determined but might be related to an electrical problem By Rachel Rippetoe The Register-Guard APPEARED IN PRINT: TUESDAY, JULY 18, 2017, PAGE A1 PLEASANT HILL — A fire sent one man to the hospital, killed six pets and destroyed three mobile homes in Pleasant Hill early Monday morning, police said. The injured […]