WHITE CITY — Fighting to become Oregon's first Republican governor in nearly 40 years, Christine Drazan made a campaign stop in the Rogue Valley on Saturday, three days before Election Day.

Drazan, a state senator from Canby, made an appearance at Pavati Boats in White City, one of several appearances she made on Halloween in a whirlwind campaign that included stops in Pendleton, Redmond and Eugene.

North Medford knew the stakes entering Friday night’s Black and Blue Bowl — win and clinch a spot in the top-tier Class 6A state playoffs.

And the Black Tornado certainly took care of business against their cross-town rivals to clinch that spot among the top 16 teams heading to the postseason.

Two Josephine County drug dealers were sentenced to prison Thursday after entering guilty pleas for delivery of methamphetamine.

Shayne Albert Bukowsky, 57, who lives west of Merlin, was sentenced to 45 months in prison, or three years and nine months, for his guilty plea to charges of delivery of methamphetamine and fentanyl and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Music inspired by nature, beauty, love, loss and the fragility of life is at the center of the Southern Oregon Repertory Singers’ fall concert, which opens the ensemble’s 2026-2027 concert season next weekend.

Performances of “Holding Wonder” will be Nov. 7 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 8 at 3 p.m., with both concerts in the Southern Oregon University Music Recital Hall in Ashland.