Late last year, the Board of Josephine County Commissioners was embroiled in controversy after a lawsuit was brought by the Josephine Community Library District over the county granting a landowner’s request to rescind their property from the district, and thus being exempt from paying the associated tax.In response, the county[Read More…]

Josephine County Public Health officials are investigating several local cases of E. coli. Experts are looking into the source of the infections and at this time do not believe the exposure is linked to any local business, park or recreational body of water.E. coli is a common bacterium, though some[Read More…]

Glenn William Arnett, 95, went to be with the Lord Aug. 27, 2024, at Grants Pass, Ore. He was born April 18, 1929, in Roswell, New Mexico, to Earl and Hope Hensley Arnett.In the late 1930s, the family moved to Oakdale, Calif. where Glenn attended school, graduating in 1947 from[Read More…]

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I read an online post recently where participants were arguing over a range of topics such as heirloom vs. modern cultivars, introduced vs. natives, invasive plants vs. a new wave of climate change tolerant plants.The interesting variable that was the elephant in the room was time. What period of time[Read More…]

New disease indicator results from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show a significant recent increase in COVID-19 virus in Oregon wastewater. Wastewater (sewage) can be tested to detect traces of infectious diseases circulating in a community, even if people don’t have symptoms. You can use these data as[Read More…]