With help from social media users, a local photographer was able to identify the suspect who stole her camera gear. She then reached out to the suspect s mother.
Many shops have managed to stay open, though some are facing challenges unrelated to the pandemic.
George Dudley, owner of Dudley’s Kampus Barber, received an email from the UO Duck Store back in December with bad news.
“The email told me that this was going to be the last six months of my lease,” Dudley says. “After July 1, we’ll be put onto a month-to-month lease schedule, which made me think that any time after that, we could be kicked out of the building.”
The Duck Store on 13th Avenue, a nonprofit separate from the UO, technically owns the land that Dudley’s business and a number of others operate on. Dudley says the Duck Store intends to gut and renovate their buildings, then raise rent prices before inviting them back.