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Champion gets a raise
The Medford School Board has praised Superintendent Bret Champion’s leadership throughout the pandemic, and now it has awarded him another stamp of approval in the form of a new, more lucrative three-... → Read More
Students swarm to Summer Experience
The Medford School District was still hiring staff late last week to meet the demand for its first — and possibly only — summer learning program dubbed Summer Experience, which is slated to start Mond... → Read More
PHS seniors honored for artwork
When pushed to assign some meaning to his Baroque-style oil painting titled “A Pig Sees His Equal,” Bradley Pogue said in hindsight, sure, it could be a reference to “Animal Farm.” Then there’s the ob... → Read More
They won school board seats. Now what?
The May special election concluded Tuesday night and was an eventful one locally, with 17 school board members in the Rogue Valley’s five largest school districts – Medford, Central Point, Eagle P... → Read More
Crater student places at DECA nationals
Crater High junior Lily Young placed second in marketing communications at the Distributive Education Clubs of America International Career Development Conference, the best individual finish in school... → Read More
Garcia throws wrench into Phoenix-Talent school board election
Ben Garcia no longer wants to be a Phoenix-Talent School Board member. With less than a week to go before the May 18 special election, Garcia announced Wednesday that if he is elected to the school bo... → Read More
Meet the president
Isabel D’Acquisto was only 10 years old and new to Jackson County 4-H when Jim Miller tapped the outgoing fourth-grader on the shoulder. Miller, a teacher at Crater High School and advisor for the sch... → Read More
Making history – Medford News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News
It wasn’t long after starting her first annual training for the National Guard that Haleigh Wagman started noticing something strange: nobody was talking to her. The other members of her infantry unit... → Read More
Shames: Jackson County must use caution during phase one
Dr. Jim Shames says he believes there’s a legitimate discussion to be had surrounding the economic impact of shutting down the economy to help ward off the spread of COVID-19 — the “pain and hardship” caused by skyrocketing unemployment. → Read More
No. 7 Sheldon secures crown
Seventh-ranked Sheldon dominated the paint and smothered every South Medford rally with a timely surge of its own to beat the sixth-ranked Panthers in their own gym, 59-47, and claim the Southwest Conference girls basketball championship outright Friday. → Read More
Crowd pleasers: Globetrotters entertain Medford
Of all the people crammed into the North Medford High School gymnasium Monday night — and it was a packed house — Shani Hulst of Grants Pass would have to be considered the one most likely to leave without a smile on her face. That’s because it was Hulst’s son who was drilled in the head by an errant water cooler thrown by one of the Harlem Globetrotters during one of their many in-game stunts.… → Read More