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IVHS graduate Jesse Lorentz (top row, third from right), poses with fellow soldiers near an armoured vehicle in Iraq (Photo provided)
He“s spent most of the past year in Iraq serving his country, but 23-year-old Illinois Valley resident Jesse Lorentz now is looking to get settled back into civilian life.
The six-member Josephine County Budget Committee held its first two meetings of the current fiscal year on Tuesday, April 27 and Thursday, April 29 at Anne G. Basker Auditorium in Downtown Grants Pass.
“Our Constitutional Principles and Rights“ was the topic of a Tuesday, April 27 town hall meeting at Anne G. Basker Auditorium in Downtown Grants Pass, attended by approximately 30 people.
Since the end of 2008, Grants Pass resident Dale Matthews has spent countless hours at the Josephine County Courthouse videotaping nearly every meeting of the board of commissioners.
Grants Pass resident Ed Bowers, one of 11 persons seeking election to Josephine County Commissioner Position 1, addressed members of the Josephine County Chapter of Americans for Prosperity Thursday evening, April 29.
A missing boy, 13, was located by searchers from Josephine and Jackson counties on Thursday, April 22, said Josephine County Sheriff Gil Gilbertson.
Community
In the early 1970s, a group of Illinois Valley parents decided against sending their children to public school.
For 136 years, Oregon Caves National Monument has been a tradition of adventure for many individuals and families throughout southern Oregon and northern California.
National Arson Awareness Week runs through Saturday, May 8, and this year“s theme is Community Arson Prevention.
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IVHS Sports
Andrew McLaughlin slide past the pitcher’s tag to score one of four Cougar runs in a loss to the Mustangs on Saturday, May, 1. (IVN photo)
As the spring sports season is hitting its homestretch, Illinois Valley High School varsity baseball coach Bob Johnson is optimistic about the team“s future prospects.
It was a busy weekend for the Illinois Valley High School co-ed track team, which competed in Eugene and Rogue River.
Just a hint of the stories from our print edition.
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- Clean water is everyone’s concern
- ZCleanliness on the menu at CJ restaurants“
- B&G’s Torch Club adopts River Street clean-up project
- Comments sought on USFS roads
- Entrepreneurs have resources at IVBEC
- Larry Ragsdale update
- Hare economic concerns
- “Where“s the community““
- Simon Hare won“t give up
- Political views
- Pull together behind Hare
