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Despite the federal government shutdown, the EPA-led cleanup of the polluted former J.H. Baxter & Co. plant will continue for the time being. But some activists worry that work at the west Eugene Superfund site could be disrupted if the shutdown stretches on. Ashli Blow reports.

A WOW Hall concert by musician/activist Carsie Blanton has been delayed, after she was detained by Israeli authorities while trying to sail through Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip. She was released a few days later. A date has not yet been set for the rescheduled Eugene show. Annie Aguiar reports.

A man who was arrested in a fatal shooting at a home on West 18th Avenue back in March was booked into jail Wednesday on a murder charge in the case. Kenneth John Alvord, 37, had previously been free on a lesser charge. Jaime Adame has the update.

Our weekly high school sports preview is up today. Among the top matchups: The two top six-player football teams face off with No. 2 Eddyville Charter traveling to No. 1 Triangle Lake.

A letter writer wonders if traffic cameras — like the controversial Flock Safety cameras — could help in efforts to make streets safer for bicyclists and pedestrians.

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EPA says J.H. Baxter cleanup will continue through shutdown 

By Ashli Blow

But environmental advocates outside the agency remain skeptical that work at the Superfund site in west Eugene will be able to go on without disruptions for long.

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Carsie Blanton’s Eugene concert postponed after release from detention in Israel

By Annie Aguiar

Musician and activist Carsie Blanton’s planned Oct. 12 concert in Eugene has been postponed after her release from detention in Israel earlier this week — though a new Eugene date has not yet been set. Blanton was aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla, a collection of activists who took to sailboats in an attempt to break […]

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Murder charge filed in connection with 18th Avenue shooting death

By Jaime Adame

Kenneth John Alvord, previously arrested in the case on a weapons charge, is now facing second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter charges in the death of Justin Garrett Huser.

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‘I’ve been following the debate over Flock cameras … how else can we address the increasingly unsafe conditions for cyclists and pedestrians if not with traffic cameras?’ | Letter to the editor

By Letters to the Editor

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Bob

Bob Passaro has been a reporter and editor since the 1990s. He has worked at The Associated Press, The Post Register in Idaho Falls, Idaho; The Salt Lake Tribune in Utah; and for 14 years at The Register-Guard in Eugene. He also spent about 10 years as co-owner of a design and web development agency in Eugene. And he is co-founder of the obituary platform Elegy.us