Register-Guard mourns loss of its two pillars
1957-1967 Don Bishoff, born and raised in Richmond, Va., with undergraduate and graduate degrees from Northwestern University’s prestigious Medill School of Journalism, was 23 when he was hired as a…
Celebrating 150 Years
An escaped killer, Elvis – and the ‘Big Snow’
Anti-war protests and bombings at the University of Oregon. The “Big Snow.” “Black Tuesday.”
The volcano, the Bhagwan, a morning paper
1977-1987 Mount St. Helen’s finally blew on May 18, 1980 – The Register-Guard’s journeyman photographer, Wayne Eastburn, capturing the bulging volcano’s spectacular force from just 30 miles away. Oregonians were…
Next generation sees changing of the Guard
1987-1997 The front-page headline – “R-G announces new leadership” – that ran on Sept. 1, 1987, made official the commitment by the Baker family’s third generation to running a newspaper…
‘This was our town … these are our people’
You can’t talk about this era, unfortunately, without talking about what is arguably the biggest and most important story The Register-Guard has ever covered: Thurston.
Adjusting to a shifting news media landscape
By the end of 2007, The Register-Guard’s average daily circulation had fallen below 70,000, finishing at 68,727, for the first time since 1988.
Key moments in Register-Guard, Eugene and Lane County history
A timeline looking back 150 years
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