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Rising From the Ashes: Gas station promo to fuel Butte Creek Mill restoration

In March 2023, gas bought at the Eagles Market and Gas in Eagle Point helped the restoration of the mill.  The National Register of Historic…

Vertical File Subjects, Eagle Point, OR, Historic Houses, Butte Creek Mill Vertical File Subjects
TV Series "All Across Oregon" set to go nationwide

Vinny DiCostanzo plans to expand scope of local travel show which describes local restauranteurs.  It airs on Southern Oregon PBS.

Vertical File Subjects, television. Vertical File Subjects
Under Siege: We're at our wits end"

Rogue Gallery treatened by downtown transients, sees no solution to the homeless problem.

Vertical File Subjects, Homeless Vertical File Subjects
Ace and Betty at the Ready

Black Bird Shopping Center prepares new myna birds for Medford and Phoenix stores.  They hope to break ground for the new store this summer,…

Vertical File Subject, Medford Oregon, Businesses, A--B Vertical File Subjects
Medford's Colored Caddies

Two articles on colored citizens from May 9, 1929.  One is on black caddies for Southern Oregon Golf tourneys, and one on a street…

Vertical File Subjects, Blacks in Medford Vertical File Subjects
Wine Growers plan for a changing climate

Wine growers in Rogue Valley are cautiously optimistic about the future of wine growing in Rogue Valley.  Roseburg winegrower Greg Jones, an…

Vertical File Subjects, Wine and winemaking. Vertical File Subjects
Sinclair killed professional spirit of KTVL newsroom

Trish Glose recalled changes in KTVL goals and procedures after Sinclair Broadcast Group purchased the station. In 2011 Sinclair have imposed…

Vertical File Subjects, Television Vertical File Subjects
Nataki Garrett resigns as OSF artistic director

Nataki Garrett took over as artistic director in 2019, but wildfires, the pandemic, racial harrassment, and continued criticism over play choices…

Vertical File Subjects, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2010-- Vertical File Subjects
Clergy Gathers to Dedicate New Catholic Church.

On April 18, 1929, the Sacred Heart Catholic Church will be dedicated with a solemn procession and a high mass with the Most Reverend Edward…

Vertical File Subjects, Medford, OR, Churches, Roman Catholic Vertical File Subjects
Business and Professional Women achieve much during the past year

The 1928 article lists prominent business and professional women in the city.

Vertical File Subjects, Women, Employment/work Vertical File Subjects
Applegates Celebrate Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary

Mr. and Mrs.Frank L. Applegate renewed their vows at the Catholic Church where they were married fifty years ago.  

Vertical File Biographies, Applegates 1900 Vertical File Biographies
Why People all over this district worried about congressman Weaver

Jerry Lausmann's campaign claims on a poster for his election for office.  

Vertical File Biographies, Lausmann Vertical File Biographies
Topsides (Carpenter House)

The Carpenter house was built in 1927 and designed by Louis B Humphrys  in the English Cottage Style.  It is #05001456 on the National…

Vertical File Subjects, Historic Houses. Vertical File Subjects
Jet Boat Trips

Flyer 200?, 

Rogue River Vertical File Subjects
Native American Studies

Southern Oregon University Magazine Fall/Winter 2003, David West, Randy Johnson, Brent Florendo, Sara Haskins-Powell, Jeff Painter, Mark Tveskov…

SOU Vertical File Subjects
Hyatt Lake Resort

Flyer, 1979

Health Ranches, Resorts, Spas, etc. Vertical File Subjects
Logan Taylor

MMT 8-20-2022, Firefighter died in Rum Creek Fire, Elizabeth Burghard, Lightning Gulch Complex, Collin Hagan

Forest Fires Vertical File Subjects
Coquille Indians

MMT 9-14-2022, Tribe gets hunting rights

Indians of North America, Oregon Vertical File Subjects
Hiram Towle

MMT 9-9-2022, Mt. Ashland Ski Area General Manager retires

Mt. Ashland Vertical File Subjects
Mickey Cooper

MMT 12-27-1964 Mrs. Alvord Cooper is log truck driver for Al Cooper l

Logging of Shady Cove

CO Vertical File Biographies
Massey's

RVT 4-20-2023, Christian Massey, Zack Doggert

Gold Hill, Businesses Vertical File Subjects
Phoodery

RVT 4-11-2023, Food-cart pavilion in Phoenix, Eric Herron, Kyle Taylor, Will Volpert, Indigo Creek Outfitters, Joe Slaughter

Phoenix, Businesses Vertical File Subjects
Jim Belushi

RVT 4-8-2023, "Growing Belushi", Cannabis, Chris Belushi, Larry Joe Campbell

Marijuana Vertical File Subjects
KTVL

RVT 4-30-2023, ending local reporting, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Jessica Bellucci

Television Vertical File Subjects
OnTrack

RVT 4-27-2023, drug counselors, Jennifer Beaver-France, Katrin Yount, Carlos Corona, Brittney Wikoff, Anthony Balentine

Drug Abuse Vertical File Subjects
Bagley Canning Company

GPDaily Courier 4-30-2023, Dr. William R. Bagley, Bob Purvis, Stearns Donation Land Claim, Talent Tomato, David James, Clarence Holdridge

Bagley Vertical File Biographies
Daffodils In Ashland: Profusion Of Spring Color

EXCEPTIONAL DAFFODIL SPOTS IN ASHLAND.
MOUNTAIN MEADOWS: MORE THAN 20,000!
CAROL WALKER: 28 YEARS PLANTING DAFFODILS!
JOE…

LINK Walk Ashland website
Spiral Serpent: Mosaic In Sand Play Area

COMMUNITY ART BY KIDS AND ADULTS
IN NORTH MOUNTAIN PARK.
ARTIST SHARON DVORA.
CREATED ABOUT 2001.
PHOTO ESSAY PUBLISHED…

LINK Walk Ashland website
Let The Mountains Remember: Campaign Against the Norther Paiute

D.J. Lesniak, 2014

388.1 L47 2014 Library
In The Ruts of the Wagon Wheels: Pioneer Roads in Eastern Oregon

Lawrence E. Nielsen, 1987

388.1 N66 Library