Merlin News

According to a local official, a proposed JoCo Biomass Production Center could create rural jobs and energy independence by producing artificial fireplace logs from compressed wood materials.

Local military families will have an opportunity to meet this week with Terri Chapman, the military family life consultant for Oregon.

When Oregon turned 100 in 1959 Eugene "Debbs" Potts needed a place for his vast collection of Oregon memorabilia.

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.

Allison DeMarris Meadows and Jonn Damon Wolf were married Saturday, May 23, 2009 at Morrisons Lodge along the banks of the Rogue River, Merlin, Oregon under the officiating of Justice William Bablitch, Wisconsin Supreme Court.

By Tove Tupper A June 12, 2009 A NEAR MERLIN, Ore. - Search and rescue teams from seven counties across Southern Oregon and Northern California have come together for the third annual CORSAR, or California Oregon Regional Search and Rescue Multi-County Annual Training Exercise.

MEDFORD, Ore. - Two environmental groups say the operator of the Benton gold mine in Southern Oregon has violated federal clean water laws, and they have filed a notice of intent to sue the company.

Michael Brown was clearly speaking tongue in cheek late Monday morning when he lamented that he might just head to a place where fires couldn't follow him.

By Amy Sienicki A May 11, 2009 A MERLIN, Ore. - Several hundred family and friends filled the Grants Pass Armory Monday to say their goodbyes to Oregon National Guard soldiers headed to Iraq.

Firefighters pulled a paraplegic man from his burning Merlin house Thursday after a fire started in his bedroom.

MERLIN - Firefighters pulled a paraplegic man from his burning house after a fire started in his bedroom.

A 40-year-old man died Monday night when he was hit by a vehicle on Interstate 5 in southern Oregon.

A 40-year-old Grants Pass man died late Monday after he was struck by at least one vehicle on Interstate 5 near Merlin, police said this morning.

With log debris and dirt berms, the BLM is trying to block off-road vehicles from using unauthorized roads and trails around the river's Hellgate area Loading... Tony Kerwin, left, an environmental planner with the Bureau of Land Management's Medford District, and Jeanne Klein, BLM's River Programs Manager, walk beside an old road near the Rogue ...

By Ron Brown A March 25, 2009 A WOLF CREEK, Ore. - The decision by the Three Rivers School Board to close Wolf Creek Elementary School is sending shock waves through the small Josephine County town.

The U.S. Forest Service has awarded more contracts funded by federal economic stimulus funds to reduce wildfire danger in Oregon.

Photo of the Carson helicopter that was carrying 13 people away from the Buckhorn site in Trinity County when it crashed and burst into flames August 5, 2008.

By Ashley Hall A March 6, 2009 A MERLIN, Ore. -- Oregon National Guard members getting ready to deploy overseas will have one less thing to worry about.

The mother of a firefighter killed last year in a California helicopter crash has filed a wrongful death suit against two Oregon companies.

The Medford Mail-Tribune did a nice job in unraveling a contract that will send helicopters to Afghanistan.