Central Point News

From its start in Robbin and Angeline Lacy's living room more than two decades ago, the protective sun hat and clothing maker has been on the move, long ago soaring past $1 million in annual revenue, with 30 employees.

Nearly two-dozen stagecoaches, covered wagons and buggies were lined up early Saturday morning on a Greensprings mountain meadow at the historic Box R Ranch, ready to roll.

After a nearly four-decade career in education, outgoing School District No. 6 Superintendent Randy Gravon likes to joke that he's "been going to school for 56 years."

Tommy James Loftis, 34, of the 10300 block of Blackwell Road, Central Point. Medford police Friday arrested Loftis on a charge of possession of methamphetamine.

Her horse frightened by two racing automobiles, Mrs. Harry H. Treat was thrown and badly bruised, and the horse probably fatally injured and terribly lacerated, by leaping in a barb-wire fence yesterday afternoon at the turn of the Central Point Boulevard at the Snowy Butte orchard.

Non-criminal citations such as traffic violations and minors in possession of tobacco in Central Point will likely be handled by Jackson County's Justice Court starting in July.

In the two decades that Broadway Phil & the Shouters have played together, they've been at home with roots blues and R&B.

A former Jackson County developer will spend 18 months in federal prison for being the financial advisor in a large-scale operation that funneled excess medical marijuana into the black market.

Mario Alberto Fletes, 22, of the 800 block of Worthington Road, Eagle Point. Medford police Monday arrested Fletes on charges of possession of methamphetamine, failure to appear in court and five out-of-county warrants.

Residents are invited to a 6 p.m. session in the Phoenix library courtyard today to help city officials screen the town's next city manager.

The ballet academy will present "Surealia," choreographed by David Roxander, at 7 p.m. Friday and 3 p.m. Saturday, June 14-15, in the Crater High School Performing Arts Center, 655 N. Third St., Central Point.

Details of a murder-for-hire plot allegedly hatched by the sister of a Medford man accused of killing his wife were released at her bail hearing on Monday in Jackson County Circuit Court.

Prospective owners of doggie day care centers received a treat from the Medford City Council Thursday when it approved an ordinance designed to make them feel more welcome in the community.

Six of the tasting rooms in the newly formed Jacksonville Wineries Association are hosting dear old dad for his special day from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, June 15-16.

I hold an annual Fourth of July celebration at my hillside home in Central Point, and I was wondering whether there will be fireworks at the Jackson County Expo.

Jackson County authorities arrested an Oregon man who they say attempted to rape his wife before killing a lamb.

Her mom Amanda recalls how her now eight-year-old daughter would sit in front of her at about a year old and ride through the trails on her grandmother's favourite horse, Cash.

Hungry goats will once again chomp their way through invasive blackberries in Medford this summer if the City Council on Thursday allows an exception to its code prohibiting the use of livestock to control vegetation.

Adriana Hillard has coped with a learning disability and cancer to finish her studies and graduate with her Crater class tonight Adriana Hillard, who will graduate tonight from Crater Renaissance Academy in Central Point, says despite a learning disability and cancer, she took a full load of classes to 'show that I could handle the challenge.'

A mixed-martial-arts trainer has been sentenced to four years in federal prison for selling pot grown under the guise of the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program on the black market.