Youth volunteers from the Civil Air Patrol, American Heritage Girls and Grants Pass High School athletics on Thursday placed some 1,300 American flags on veterans' graves at Hawthorne Memorial Gardens in Grants Pass. Read More »

South Medford freshman Alexis Uschold advanced to the quarterfinals with two wins Thursday at the Class 6A girls' tennis state tournament in Beaverton.

Uschold, the No. 6 seed, breezed by Sprague's Hannah Bradshaw in the first round, 6-0, 6-1.

In the second round, Uschold also clobbered South Salem's Sadie Paterson, 6-1, 6-1.

Uschold is slated to play West Linn's Sonya Drayton today in the quarterfinals. Read More »

On most occasions I'm generally glib, but I always have trouble finding the right words when looking down at the grave of Bessie Bell.

"We are so sorry we never met you, Bessie Bell," I finally offered. "You deserved a better life."

"You must have been adorable — we love your photograph," Maureen added as she laid rose blossoms near the headstone. "You have a wonderful name." Read More »

ASHLAND — Very early on in her autobiographical stage show, Robin Goodrin Nordli compares her first theater audition to the television game shows she loved to watch as a child.

She was 14, a freshman at Mount Prospect High School in the Chicago suburbs. The role was Bianca in William Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew." Read More »