PHOENIX — In fall 2025, recent Vanderbilt graduate Donald Fitzgerald packed his things and moved from Nashville to Medford to take part in a training program with La Clinica, a Rogue Valley healthcare organization. He had never been to the area before, and, as a Black man moving to a rural part of the country, he was wary.

Standing some 25 feet tall in the picturesque little valley behind our house is a handsome catalpa tree, something I referred to as a bean tree until Bill Varble enlightened me when he gave it to us as a sprouting seedling in a small pot some 15 years ago.

Grants Pass Police Department

Oct. 29, 1946 – Aug, 24, 2026

Dolly Parton’s legacy is more than her music, business acumen, and being an awesome human. She understood that if we want children to have brighter futures, we need to make sure they have books.

The sky is falling. If higher education goes away, Oregon becomes a Third World country. Southern Oregon University is the only four-year public institution on the I-5 corridor between Eugene and Sacramento. If all we have to guide us is AI (artificial intelligence) we have no autonomy, no democracy, no morality, no future. Sure, we would have information, but information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, and without wisdom there is no competent leadership.

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A Grants Pass-based software company has been recognized as one of America’s fastest-growing private companies for the 10th year in a row.

ASANTE ROGUE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

It’s the season for fresh basil, one of the most popular herbs in modern cooking.

ASANTE THREE RIVERS MEDICAL CENTER

Our gardens are at their peak of production right now and many of us are busy harvesting everything from green beans to zucchini.

Vacation Bible school sessions are underway:

With temperatures cooling and rain falling in the Rogue Valley, it seems like soup weather has arrived. Read More »