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Meet Your 2020 Jacksonville Candidates
2020 Jacksonville Election Results—Congratulations to Mayor-Elect Donna Bowen, Incumbent City Councilors Steve Casaleggio and Mike McClain and Andrea Lerner Thompson!
Donna Bowen – Mayor
As I sat down to write an introductory article of myself as a […]
Thank You From Jacksonville Fire
September 18, 2020
Jacksonville Community,
Recent wildfires, combined with the Covid-19 crisis, have challenged our department in ways nobody could have foreseen.
On September 8 all available resources of Jacksonville Fire were rallied to respond to the Almeda […]
Learn how to keep you and your loved ones safe in different emergency situations and what to pack!
This virtual event will be covering the following preparedness topics:
- Pets: Linda Bacon of Southern Oregon Emergency Aid
- First Aid: Mercy Flights Explorer Post 131
- Earthquakes: Eric Dittmer of Southern Oregon University
- Fire: Samantha Metheny of Medford […]
Rogue Valley Country Club Hosts Car Show Community Fundraiser
MEDFORD, OREGON – Join us this Sunday, September 20, 2020, on the Oaks Golf Course at RVCC from 10 am – 3:30 pm as we host 60 of the most exotic and premium automobiles on […]
SOCAN Private Pre-Release Screening of “Other Side of the Hill”
Private pre-release screening of “Other Side of the Hill’
Many Oregonians on the other side of the hill are really far ahead when it comes to renewable energy. Urban Oregonians often think that our cities […]
Rebel Heart Books Writing Contest – Enter by September 30, 2020!
It’s September and although the world is different and the context is different, that still means back to school. In honor of the eternal pursuit of education—of toiling in order to conquer the mazes of reading, […]
Homecoming to a New Practice
Dr. Ryan Colley, who recently joined Dr. Yaser Metwally at Advanced Join Replacement Center of Southern Oregon, is also a new resident of Jacksonville. He was born in Medford and raised in the Rogue Valley […]
Parents! Open Classrooms at Bigham Knoll Crossing
There’s plenty new to learn during a pandemic, but some basics remain the same: the essentials of reading, writing, and arithmetic along with exercising, laughing, and playing. All elementary schools in Jackson County, public and […]
Grass Fire in the Woodlands Extinguished Quickly
On August 10, a very hot day with temperatures reaching 99 degrees with low humidity, units from Jacksonville Fire and Oregon Department of Forestry were dispatched to a fire just south of the Beekman Woods. […]
Social Distancing, Parks Style! – by Kristen Sullivan
Most people these days are a bit worried about going back to life as “normal,” but even the most diligent folks are ready to get out of the house and enjoy the end of a […]