Merlin News

By Ron Brown A November 16, 2009 A MERLIN, Ore. - With open burning currently off limits, a Josephine County program to turn yard waste and sewage sludge into a useful product is in full-swing. A The Jo-Gro facility, at the old Merlin landfill, turns leaves, limbs and lawn clippings into useful landscaping products.

Southwestern Oregon stands to claim more than $1.1 million in federal stimulus money to thin forestlands to reduce fire hazard and improve forest health.

Waking in a sleeping bag to a bone-drenching rain on the fifth day of a nine-day raft trip down the Rogue River, Sam Jackson and his two childhood pals wondered whether this adventure would match what it looked like on paper.

The Josephine County Sheriff's Department is investigating an armed robbery of a Dutch Bros.

When Nissan starts selling its Leaf electric cars in Oregon next year, the early adapters will be able to recharge at home in their garages or at a growing network of public stations.

How can a food bank to benefit soldiers' families be inappropriate for an armory? October 17, 2009 The Daily Courier It's a decision so bewildering it almost takes your breath away: The Oregon National Guard has ordered local residents to close a food bank at the Merlin National Guard Armory.

We mark our history like shallow footprints left in snow, and what little trace we leave, quickly melts away.

By Ron Brown A September 17, 2009 A NEAR MERLIN, Ore. - Fishermen are trying to improve habitat for salmon and steelhead in streams near Grants Pass.

A report issued Wednesday on a 2008 helicopter crash that killed seven Southern Oregon firefighters revealed discrepancies in documents that recorded the weight of the helicopter.

MERLIN, Ore. For the past decade that the U.S. Forest Service has been pressing to thin hundreds of millions of acres of woods in danger of burning up, it has had one nagging problem: how to come up with the billions of dollars to pay for it.

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By Tove Tupper A September 1, 2009 A MERLIN, Ore. - A North Valley High School student was killed in a car crash early Tuesday morning.

MERLIN, Ore. - For the past decade that the U.S. Forest Service has been pressing to thin hundreds of millions of acres of woods in danger of burning up, it has had one nagging problem: how to come up with the billions of dollars to pay for it.

That was no bump on a log. Children who said they found a reptile sunning itself near a bridge over the Applegate River on Saturday saw the real thing -- a 3.5-foot alligator, Oregon State Police confirmed this morning.

When residents in the 6600 block of North Applegate Road decided to go swimming Saturday afternoon, they got the shock of their lives: A 31 2-foot alligator was sunning itself on a log near the Applegate bridge.

Grants Pass- Members of the 186th battalion out of Merlin are headed to Iraq. A few local groups are trying to make sure the families of military men and women left behind are taken care of.

According to a local official, a proposed JoCo Biomass Production Center could create rural jobs and energy independence by producing artificial fireplace logs from compressed wood materials.

Local military families will have an opportunity to meet this week with Terri Chapman, the military family life consultant for Oregon.

When Oregon turned 100 in 1959 Eugene "Debbs" Potts needed a place for his vast collection of Oregon memorabilia.

New museum highlights 50th anniversary of little township near Merlin and coincides with 24th annual early-day gas engine event Loading... Dezuriah Peddicord, 2, the youngest volunteer in Pottsville, pilots the Sheriff's Posse parade car in the town's new museum.