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Article: Fighting Santa Clara fires.(Editorials)(City to stop contracting with districts for service)(Editorial)
- Article from:
- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- February 2, 2002
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Byline: The Register-Guard
Tensions have been simmering - sometimes boiling - between the city of Eugene and River Road-Santa Clara area residents since the 1970s when the city forced thousands of property owners to connect to city sewers and to pay hefty assessments for their construction.
The hostility that many area residents still feel toward the city intensified this week after Eugene Fire Chief Tom Tallon announced that his department will not renew coverage contracts with the Santa Clara Fire District and Lane Rural Fire & Rescue. Instead, the city will send its own crews to respond to emergency calls from the one-third of Santa Clara residents ...