Prospect News

By Amy Sienicki A December 4, 2009 A PROSPECT, Ore. - Seniors and people living with disabilities may soon have to pay more at certain campgrounds in Southern Oregon.

Three-year-old Keaton tightly grasped a plastic grocery bag full of toys a volunteer had given him while he and his mother waited at a food pantry in Rogue River to receive a few days supply of food.

When fifth-grader Robert Taylor arrived at Prospect School on Upper Rogue on Wednesday, he checked the small, bright pink, translucent globes sitting in a classroom aquarium to see which of the salmon eggs were still alive and which had hatched.

Jackson County health inspectors evaluated 110 restaurants in October. All passed their semiannual inspections, and 17 received perfect scores of 100.

Lots of kids earn their first paycheck from McDonald's, but Bradley Castro collected his a lot earlier than most.

Editor's note: This is the last in a six-day series on the 100-year history of the Mail Tribune.

He sauntered into the studio wearing his cowboy hat, boots and customized Western shirt neatly tucked into his freshly pressed jeans.

Fire destroyed the family home of Terry Cryts, a Prospect resident known for helping plan community events, but it didn't consume her giving spirit.

While family members work to get back on their feet, fire investigators are searching for the cause of a fire that destroyed the Prospect home of Terry and John Cryts on Sunday.

Knute Klingerman, owner of Rogue Safe Co., demonstrates the "tweaker attack test" on a home gun safe.

PROSPECT, Ore. - Authorities say fire destroyed a home in the southern Oregon town of Prospect.

Incidents of flu symptoms continued to fluctuate this week in Jackson County schools, with flu-like illnesses at Phoenix High School canceling a football match tonight between the Jackson County school and Sutherlin High School.

KDRV Staff A September 28, 2009 A PROSPECT, Ore. - The Jackson County Health Department announced Monday afternoon that they are closing the Prospect School in Southern Oregon because of a swine flu outbreak.

What is the essence of Southern Oregon and Northern California? How does an artist convey the distinct beauty and character of this region ringed by mountains? "Of Our Time and Place," an invitational photography exhibit at Medford's Rogue Gallery & Art Center, presents the work of 16 local photo-graphers asked to express their vision of the ...

What is it about water that lifts the human spirit? In "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek," Annie Dillard's Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the landscape and wildlife along a stream in Virginia, she stands mesmerized again and again by water's power to move her.

Jackson County schools had wide fluctuations in outcomes in math, reading, science and writing in the annual state assessment last year, according to a report released today by the Oregon Department of Education.

By Ron Brown A August 5, 2009 A PROSPECT, Ore. - One of Southern Oregon's smallest school districts is joining a growing group of districts turning to charter schools to stay afloat.

By Ron Brown A August 5, 2009 A PROSPECT, Ore. - One of Southern Oregon's smallest school districts is joining a growing group of districts turning to charter schools to stay afloat.

By Ron Brown A August 5, 2009 A PROSPECT, Ore. - One of Southern Oregon's smallest school districts is joining a growing group of districts turning to charter schools to stay afloat.

By Ron Brown A August 5, 2009 A PROSPECT, Ore. - One of Southern Oregon's smallest school districts is joining a growing group of districts turning to charter schools to stay afloat.