REGULARLY SCHEDULED PUBLICMEETINGSCity Hall – Council Chambers17 Buchanan Avenue South City Council – 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month at 6:00 p.m. – Council Chambers and via Zoom. Neighborhood Enhancement Commission – Next meeting date to be announced – 6:00 p.m. Council Chambers. Planning Commission – Next meeting date to be announced – 6:00…

Eagle Point Police Citations and Arrests Wednesday, Dec. 24 *Eagle Point male was cited for speeding and driving uninsured Tursday, Dec. 25 *Vancouver, Wa. female was cited for driving uninsured, driving while suspended and expired registration *Medford male was cited for driving while suspended Friday, Dec. 26 *Jacksonville male was cited for failure to install…

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January 14 is National Hot Pastrami Day, January 15 is National Bagel Day and January 19 is National Popcorn Day! Enjoy this trio of recipes as you celebrate! Hot Pastrami Sandwich Ingredients 1 tablespoon butter 2 slices caraway rye bread  1 slice provolone 1 slice Swiss cheese  4 ounces hot pastrami  2 to 3 ounces…

By Dr. F. Alice LeDuc Clintonia uniflora – Queen’s cup, Bead Lily, Bead Cup, Bride’s Bonnet One of my favorite flowers from my childhood. This member of the lily family, in the broad sense, is an herbaceous perennial with a single flower which separates in from other members of its genus. The single flower and…

Thursday, Jan. 16, 1964 The Slakery (whimsy) In the cutthroat competition of today, whenever the news gets around that a new and radically different enterprise is about to be launched, excited businessmen cast suspicious and avaricious eyes on the upstart newcomer who dares to horn in on their established markets.           And Illinois Valley is…

Wednesday, Dec. 24 *Eagle Point male was cited for speeding and driving uninsured Tuesday, Dec. 25 *Vancouver, Wa. female was cited for driving uninsured, driving while suspended and expired registration *Medford male was cited for driving while suspended Friday, Dec. 26 *Jacksonville male was cited for failure to install Interlock device and speeding and warned…

by The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, Jan. 14, the 14th day of 2026. There are 351 days left in the year. Today in history: On Jan. 14, 2013, cyclist Lance Armstrong ended a decade of denial by confessing to Oprah Winfrey during a videotaped interview he’d used performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de…

By Christy Solo We’ll be horsin’ around in this week’s All Things! Oregon may be known for our llama population, but we have no shortage of horses either! Did you know that Oregon is home to about 4,000 wild horses? It’s a case of “had ‘em, lost ‘em, got ‘em again and you can get…

By Christy Solo – ONPA 1st Place Award Winner for Best Local Column This week’s crawly has a fun (and maybe familiar) name. Meet the salt-and-pepper looper moth (Syngrapha rectangular). Of course we’re all familiar with salt and pepper, but did “looper” ring a bell? In our rich agricultural area that part of our crawly’s…

Commentary by Christy Solo When I woke up on Christmas Eve I was looking forward to speed-running my weekly “Get mailing labels on papers, get papers to post office, then do weekly banking, shopping, etc.” gauntlet so I could get back to my cozy living room and whip up my own personal traditional holiday dinner…

Commentary by Wayne Lee Hello 2026 and goodbye to 2025 and it couldn’t have come soon enough. It ended with a December I would rather not remember. It began with seven flat tires on Da Beast in the first three weeks of the month. At least it was the front tire which is much easier…

January 7: 12pm-1pm, Medford Library, Large Meeting Room January 14: 12pm-1pm, Ashland Library, Gresham Room In 1905, Attorney Abraham Walter Lafferty was appointed special agent for the Department of Interior’s General Land Office in Portland, and opened a law practice a year later. In 1907, Lafferty took on representation of eighteen Oregon counties over the…

By Christy Solo – Editor By the time you read this the Upper Rogue Independent will be online! So we thought we’d go over some basics again and answer some questions we’ve received from readers. We’ve already entered all the active subscribers into the website including the current expiration date for your subscription. All you…

By Wayne Lee – Sports Editor When last we left the Lady Eagles basketball team, they were on their way to Corvallis for the Spartan Holiday Classic tournament Dec. 19-21. They opened with a game against Philomath, the second ranked 4-A team in the state that had only lost one game this season. The Warriors…

By Hansi Lo Wang – NPR (NPR) Changes at the U.S. Postal Service are forcing people who rely on postmarks when voting, filing taxes or mailing legal documents to be extra careful when cutting it close to deadlines. Postmarks include the dates that USPS stamps on envelopes, and those are often used to determine whether…