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Poet Melinda Smith, a “Mother Nature” figure. AS part of the Enlighten Festival, the Australian Dance Party is holding an after-dark tour through the Australian National Botanic Gardens, complete with illuminated live dance, music and spoken word. According to the convenor of the “Party” Alison Plevey, this was a wonderful chance for her team of collaborators to work in a public space while studying, in dance, everything from our symbiotic relationships with the natural world to parasitism, mutualism and commensalism. At a media call on Friday (February 26) in fact, it was so public ...

Springfield paid ex-cop $250K to end employment, settle suit Updated Feb 25, 2021; Facebook Share By Megan Banta | The Register-Guard Ryan Stone and City Manager Nancy Newton signed a separation agreement on Dec. 31 ending both his employment with the city and his whistleblower lawsuit. As part of that agreement, which the Register-Guard obtained through a public records request, Stone got $172,186.13 and is receiving free family medical, dental and vision insurance for a year. His attorneys got $77,813.87. In the lawsuit, filed in April 2019, Stone alleged the city investigated him in retal...

Springfield settles lawsuit with Ryan Stone Stone signed this separation agreement on Dec. 31, 2020, and the contract went into effect the following day. Posted: Feb 25, 2021 7:42 PM Updated: Feb 25, 2021 8:02 PM Posted By: Connor McCarthy SPRINGFIELD, Ore. -- The city of Springfield settled a lawsuit filed by former police officer Ryan Stone as part of a separation agreement. The city agreed to pay Stone $250,000. The city said this will also cover attorney fees. Stone will also have one year of medical and dental insurance. However, the city barred him from working in any department of  c...

Register-Guard Two men will receive a combined total of $150,000 to dismiss their use of force claims against Springfield police officers.  Jubal Chaplin and Caleb Beechem sued the city and various officers at the end of January 2020, alleging Springfield police unlawfully arrested and detained them and used excessive force in separate incidents. Within the past couple months, both men have signed settlement agreements. Chaplin will receive $50,000 to cover damages, attorney fees and other costs. Beechem will receive $100,000, according to signed agreements The Register-Guard received thro...

(Unsplash/Ryan Stone) It is two weeks since the attack on the Capitol of this democratic republic by a single-minded but diverse group of Trumpists — dissenters, white supremacists, thugs, the delusional and Republicans. That energy, it appears, arises from a kind of cult following of past-President Donald Trump. It certainly does not come out of either a love for the Constitution or a love for a country already struggling to find its way through a society and a globe in transition. It leaves us riven. It shakes the tectonic plates of our society. It sends us, under the sh...