From left, Josephine Community Library Director Kate Lasky, Rachele Selvig, vice president of the library board, and Gina Marie Agosta, president of the library board, receive positive feedback from community members during a press conference in front of the Basker Auditorium on Thursday to express their frustration over the county's handling of the lease negotiations with the library.
By Chrissy Ewald of the Daily Courier
Lease negotiations between Josephine County and the Josephine Community Library District short-circuited Thursday when a meeting failed to materialize and each side blamed the other for its cancellation.
With the fate of the Grants Pass library branch at stake, library district representatives say they expected to meet Thursday morning with the Josephine County Board of Commissioners, which wants to renegotiate the library building's $1-a-year lease. Read More »
Grants Pass senior Peyton Bruner was named the Southwest Conference's Defensive Player of the Year and also earned first-team all-conference honors after averaging 20 points and seven rebounds per game during the season.
By Mike Duffy of the Daily Courier
Grants Pass senior Peyton Bruner was named the Defensive Player of the Year by the Southwest Conference coaches when the all-league boys' basketball awards were recently announced.
Bruner was also named all-conference first team. He was joined on the top squad by Cavemen sophomore Jordan Rossetta. Read More »
With St. Patrick's Day dawning on Monday, I can't help but reflect on a wonderful trip to the Emerald Isle with daughter Amy. It was during spring break in 1995 when she was a senior at Hidden Valley High School in Murphy.
"That was the best senior present I could have ever asked for," Amy said when we recently chatted about visiting Ireland 30 years ago this coming week. Read More »
A camel driver leads his pack downhill to a camp on the high dunes of the Merzouga Desert in Morocco in this image by Barbara Tricarico. "Desert Wanderers" earned a first place in the Southern Oregon Photographic Association's March competition.
Daily Courier
The Jackson County-based Southern Oregon Photographic Association has named the winning images from its March competition.
A total of 94 images were entered by 17 club members, 65 in the electronic image division and 29 prints.
In the electronic image division, traditional category, with 47 entries, three images shared first place. "Desert Wanderers" and "Vietnamese Merchant," both by Barbara Tricarico and "Juvenile Caracara" by Fran Yates took top honors.
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