The nearly 50-year-old pool at the Grants Pass Family YMCA is in need of significant repairs, and Evergreen Federal Bank has stepped in with a $100,000 donation to help pay for a major renovation project.

Starting before dawn, the popular indoor pool is busy with lap swimming, swim team practices and meets, swimming lessons, aquatic exercise classes, open swimming and other events.

It didn’t take long for the third-ranked Panthers to take control of their final Southwest Conference game of the season Friday night in Medford.

South Medford scored the first 23 points to build a commanding early lead, rolling to a 73-28 girls’ basketball win over South Eugene to complete a perfect SWC campaign.

MEDFORD — A Central Point man, the ringleader of three thieves who stole more than $250,000 worth of gold coins, guns and cash from an elderly man, was sentenced on Friday in federal court to 10 years in prison.

Jonathan Anthony Kinsella, 53, will also serve three years supervised release after pleading guilty in U.S. District Court Medford to felon in possession of a firearm.

The Hamazons, a local improvisational comedy troupe, will present “Improvised Film Noir,” a performance where comedy improv meets the cold, hard stylings of 1940s film noir.