Ashland resident and inventor Mark Morrison showcases a prototype of a canister that regulates the temperature of vaccinations during transport intended for areas with less reliable methods of refrigeration. Each canister holds enough vials to vaccinate hundreds of people.
By Emma Maple of the Daily Courier
ASHLAND — Mark Morrison is building a vaccine-storage device that could save thousands of lives, and it all started as an unassuming way to keep beer cold.
The device the Southern Oregon University graduate dreamed up is essentially a small vacuum-insulated container that can maintain a programmed temperature for weeks on end through the use of solar-powered batteries.
New Hope Christian senior Nathan Grim (center) goes up for a shot between three Days Creek defenders during Tuesday night's Skyline League game. Grim finished with 16 points in the game.
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New Hope Christian nearly pulled off a major upset on Tuesday, but fifth-ranked Days Creek clipped the Warriors for the 54-49 Skyline League boys’ basketball win at New Hope.
Every time the Warriors got close in the second half, the Wolves (13-5, 5-0) had an answer.
Days Creek grabbed a 12-10 lead after one quarter and was up 26-23 at the break.
The Bureau of Land Management is looking for two people to serve as artists-in-residence and create art inspired by a remote stretch of the lower Rogue River northwest of Grants Pass and the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument east of Ashland.
Applications are due on Feb. 28.
The artists will receive one- to two-week residencies this coming summer to create original work while immersed in some of Oregon’s most remarkable environments, the BLM said.
Grants Pass branch library volunteer Christopher Guerra prepares a book to be sent back to the lending library the book originated from, as part of the Josephine Community Library's interlibrary book loaning system.
By Kate Lasky for the Josephine Community Library
If you’re afraid of books, you definitely don’t want to know about ILL. In fact, if books and all the diverse ideas they contain make you concerned about our society, you can stop here. This article isn’t for you. But if you are the kind of reader with a voracious appetite, craving more and more books from a variety of genres, let me tell you about how libraries have linked together to make their collective impact more powerful, even larger, and all for you.
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