JOSEPHINE COUNTY, Ore. — The Board of Josephine County Commissioners will host a press conference today, Oct. 12 to provide information on Ballot Measure 17-112 and address questions about the countywide law enforcement retail activities tax proposed to the voters of Josephine County on the Nov. 8 ballot.The press conference[Read More…]

Oct. 12**Please join us at 10a.m. and learn about Asante Hospice services including the wonderful opportunity to become a volunteer in the Illinois Valley. Kay Nielson will be presenting this educational opportunity and the value of hospice volunteers, ordinary people doing extraordinary work. Mark your calendars for Oct. 12, 10[Read More…]

I just returned from the League of Oregon Cities 97th annual conference in Bend. Councilor Jean Ann Miles also attended. The conference was jam packed with attendees, workshops and meetings. Some of the highlights for me, in addition to connections made with other city leaders, were workshops on: combating the[Read More…]

Josephine County Transit Program Supervisor Scott Chancey joined the Board of JoCo Commissioners Oct. 5 to detail the donation of a surplus vehicle from his fleet.“With the transit program we have a process where, when one of the vehicles is beyond its useful life for us, we try to dispose[Read More…]

Hello after a week’s absence. Sunday night skins took a toll on me last week and I missed my deadline.The Golf Course is beginning with a new format for Monday nights. We are playing skins on Mondays until Men’s Summer league begins again.So two weeks ago, Monday Skins were won[Read More…]

Josephine County is partnering with the Southern Oregon Education Services District to implement the Southern Oregon Public Health Illness Guidance, or SOPHI, a web-based platform that will streamline the process of collecting student and staff communicable disease symptom data.According to a scope of work report published late last year, SOPHI[Read More…]

Today is Wednesday, Oct. 12, the 285th day of 2022. There are 80 days left in the year.Today’s Highlight in History:On Oct. 12, 1976, it was announced in China that Hua Guofeng had been named to succeed the late Mao Zedong as chairman of the Communist Party; it was also[Read More…]

Sherwood Malik, Logan Ponchart, Akasha Harris, Ramona Newman, Megan Tucker, Cory Davis, Matt Bohmker, Jack Egan, Jason Edinger. Chase Mason, Serenidy Grebisz, Landon Feight, Jeremiah Izzo, Brodey Rasmussen, Paige Paul, Ethan Medina, Daniel Logan, Curtis Beard, Rio Parenti and Kaylee Eades with Pricipal Danny Pratt (not in photographed order).