Kerby News

New museum highlights 50th anniversary of little township near Merlin and coincides with 24th annual early-day gas engine event Loading... Dezuriah Peddicord, 2, the youngest volunteer in Pottsville, pilots the Sheriff's Posse parade car in the town's new museum.

By Ron Brown A June 2, 2009 A GRANTS PASS, Ore. - The old adage that sticks and stones may break bones but words will never hurt is apparently not true when it comes to places named 'squaw'. A Southern Oregon has several creeks, lakes, and mountains named 'squaw', a term many consider degrading towards Native American women.

Nearly every Sunday a group of friends from Gold Hill and Rogue River set off to do some four-wheeling in the forest.

A Gold Hill man allegedly shot in the arm by a miner outside of Kerby Sunday remains hospitalized today in Portland.

A man shot in a confrontation between off-road drivers and a miner in Southern Oregon could lose his arm, a friend says.

A 53-year-old Gold Hill man's arm was shattered by a shotgun blast following a confrontation Sunday on another man's mining claim on U.S. Forest Service land near Kerby, the Josephine County Sheriff's Office reported.

Associated Press A April 6, 2009 A KERBY, Ore. -- Authorities say a miner in Southern Oregon has been arrested after firing a 12-gauge shotgun and wounding a man who was part of a group people using four-wheel-drive vehicles in the woods.

A Josephine County man is hospitalized after an apparent stranger attacks and stabs him.

In Josephine County, there is no question where gold was first found in the region.

At two o'clock yesterday afternoon, Josephine County Sheriff's Deputies were called to the Kerby High Pines Trailer Park, located at the 20000 block of Redwood Highway.

The Mail Tribune has announced it will reduce its circulation delivery area beginning Jan.