Jacksonville News

I still only find one Friday group run in Oregon and SW Washington. Seems like a not-so-popular night to run; I guess most people reserve Fridays as a rest day before a race or their Saturday long run! Fridays offer the South Coast Running Club's morning training run in Jacksonville.

Backers of a proposed dog park adjacent to the city limits were asked to come back with a more detailed proposal after their presentation Wednesday to the city's Parks, Recreation and Visitor's Services Committee.

What's new in southern Oregon: A remarkably even growing season, marked by warm, rainless days and cool evenings resulted in a 2009 harvest that let vintners decide for themselves when to pull out the shears.

Backers of a proposed dog park on land immediately adjacent to Jacksonville city limits were asked Wednesday to come back to a city committee with a more developed proposal.

A neighbor has appealed a Planning Commission decision that set noise levels for outdoor amplified music events at the Nunan Estate, saying the decision is in conflict with state law.

A land-use watchdog group has charged that Jackson County is attempting an end run around its own zoning laws that could clear the way for sprawl in rural areas.

A soggy week in November hardly is the time you might expect to shoot video footage promoting tourism - especially a video built around cycling in Southern Oregon.

Wanting to make sure U.S. troops don't feel forgotten during the holidays, Boy Scout Bryce Thornton has set his sights on sending 1,000 care packages to soldiers stationed in Afghanistan by Christmas.

The old Ashland High School gymnasium will be resurrected on agriculture land just east of Jacksonville for produce storage and possibly a custom-crush winemaking operation.

South Stage Cellars of Jacksonville is a wine-tasting room with a difference. It showcases wines made by several Oregon wineries using grapes grown by Don and Traute Moore of Talent.

A 54-year-old Jacksonville rancher found three of his pregnant cows shot early Saturday morning, including one that had been partially butchered on the side of the road after it had been dragged for half a mile.

A Jacksonville rancher says three of his pregnant cows were shot this weekend, including one found mutilated by the side of the road after being dragged a half-mile. Tim Hunter told the Mail Tribune newspaper the cows were shot Saturday morning as they were lying next to their feed bunks.

The unique noise filling our woodlands south of Jacksonville last Sunday morning sounded like a beaver grating his buck teeth against the grain of a tree.

By Steven Sandberg A November 2, 2009 A NEAR JACKSONVILLE, Ore. - Two Medford teenagers are recovering after a recreational vehicle accident Sunday night.

By Andrea Calcagno A November 3, 2009 A JACKSONVILLE, Ore. -- Jacksonville is looking to make changes to its citywide noise ordinance.

Imagine paintings of cakes with pigment as thick and rich as frosting. There'll be cake on the walls - 50 cakes by 50 artists - as Medford's Rogue Gallery & Art Center kicks off its 50th anniversary celebration January 20.

OK, I've heard just about enough arguing from both sides about the meals tax and, as usual, it looks as if nobody's thinking outside the " box" but yours truly.

Following the indictment of its producer and host, the Rogue Valley Television show "Wilde Life" has been suspended by Southern Oregon University.

Southern Oregon University has stopped airing the Rogue Valley Community Television show "Wilde Life" because of the indictments of its producer and host.

Former classmates Bob Trappe and Don Frame look over photos of Tigard Union High School at their 65th class reunion.