The Cave Junction City Council held its first meeting of the month Sept. 12, and while it was a lengthy one that included two public hearings, things progressed smoothly. The council was able to tentatively give the green light to the previously discussed RV park, and renewed the expired approval[Read More…]

Anita Savio – IVN contributing writer Bureau of Land Management employees found 150 illegal dumping sites on BLM lands in Jackson and Josephine counties between August 2020 and 2022.Hazardous materials coordinator Anna Tankersley estimates that of those sites, 70% has been cleaned up. But that’s not the whole story.In Josephine[Read More…]

Here are some of the things that keep our Public Works Department busy.There was a walk through with Copeland and Civil West on the new ADA ramps being installed. Unfortunately, not all the panels and approaches met ADA standards. ADA requires very specific slopes to be consistent from end to[Read More…]

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from 13 counties in a long-running $1 billion lawsuit over timber revenue and what constitutes “the greatest permanent value” when it comes to forest management.The denial ends a six-year legal battle over logging practices on 700,000[Read More…]

The Illinois Valley Historic Laurel Cemetery was hit hard with a burglary Saturday, Sept. 17. Thieves broke two windows to the chapel and stole the security cameras mounted on the outside of the building after allegedly driving around the locked cable entrance through a wooded area with a tombstone.IVHLC board[Read More…]

Three family members who have diedMargie M. Sambrana 1982, Delores R. Noble/Sambrana 2016 and Virginia M. SambranaRemains will be taken to San Francisco Cemetery in October 2022. 541-415-6184 Leonora Maria Hooker, 79, of Selma, died peacefully at home on Sept. 12, 2022. Arrangements with Illinois Valley Funeral Directors. Johnny Porter,[Read More…]

On Friday, Sept. 16, late in the afternoon, I received an email from our newspaper print staff at the Medford Mail Tribune, stating they were going to go all digital and shut down their press operations at the month’s end.They gave me two weeks’ notice to find a new printer,[Read More…]

Hello from the Illinois Valley Country Club golf course.Men’s Club will be playing for final standings this week, leaders today, top ten only, next week, full field placings:Taylor’s Sausage1Taylor’s Sausage2/Valley FabricationJerry’s TowingFLSBud BrosKALA SeafoodRobbins BrothersJohn L Scott RealtyKerby ElectricSelma Second HandWednesday night skins had a nice group of about 11[Read More…]

The Kalmiopsis Community Arts High School’s charter was approved by the Three Rivers School District Board of Directors at its Sept. 14 meeting.KCA has been in the works for years, the brainchild of Valley educators: Kaci Elder, Kimiko Maglio, Melissa DeNardo and Ryan Forsythe, with previous support from Sara Kinstler[Read More…]