The Hop to it GEMS 4-H rabbit and cavy club held its fourth meeting Tuesday, Feb. 10. The meeting started with our club leader, Deb Brown, giving roll call. After the roll call was concluded, the 4-H pledge and the Pledge of Allegiance were led by the sergeant-at-arms Matthew Butler.
The Feb. 26 Shady Cove Planning Commission meeting was brief, just two agenda items. One of which added at the start of the meeting by Planning Chair John Edwards.
Shady Cove City Council held an open hearing Feb. 19. Per the announcement, “In accordance with ORS 192.660(2)(b), the council will hold an “open hearing” to consider the dismissal or disciplining of, or to hear complaints or charges brought against, a public officer (councilor).”
Initially the meeting had been scheduled as an executive session, however Councilor Paige Winfrey requested it be held as an open hearing. The executive session was cancelled and the hearing scheduled and notice posted.
Shady Cove City Council held their regularly scheduled meeting Feb. 19 at 6 p.m. The meeting was well attended both in person at City Hall and via Zoom. Arguably most in attendance were less interested in agenda items such as “Franchise Agreements versus Rights of Way Agreements” and were more interested in the added agenda item of: Resolution 26-01 “A resolution of the city of Shady Cove concerning the censure and exclusion of a councilor from certain executive sessions held under ORS 192.660(2)(f) and ORS 192.660(2)(h).”
During the Shady Cove Council open hearing Feb. 17, two separate comments were made about the Upper Rogue Independent which we need to address.
The Eagle Point Planning Commission held a public hearing Feb.17 regarding a request to rezone a 6.06-acre parcel of land located at 1015 Palima Dr. from Residential Farm (RF) to R-1-12 which would allow 12 single-family homes per acre. However, it must be noted that what was before the commission was a simple rezoning request, not a development proposal.
Since 2021, she’s traveled annually to the Oregon-California border to look for a critically endangered bee last seen in 2006 – Bombus franklini, or Franklin’s bumblebee.
In the arid, cracked desert ground in Southern California, a tiny bee pokes its head out of a hole no larger than the tip of a crayon.
CENTRAL POINT, Ore. – The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is conducting research on fisher, a forest-dwelling carnivore that once occupied forests across the Cascade and Klamath-Siskiyou regions.
Nearly 100 people crowded into the Eagle Point High School’s large meeting room on the evening of Friday, Feb. 6, 2026 to hear from three candidates vying for the Eagle Point School District superintendency. The Eagle Point School District board organized a public forum to introduce James Helmen, Heather Marinucci and Josh Middleton to the community and give those attending an opportunity to ask questions.