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Grants Pass (Oregon)

Feds plan new signs for Bear Camp Road

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - New signs and markers are planned for Bear Camp Road to prevent the kind of tragedy that ended with the death of James Kim. Seeking a shortcut to the Oregon coast in November 2006, Kim and his young...

Oregon salmon restoration supported

The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission has approved restoration of chinook salmon to the area now blocked by dams on the Klamath River... By JEFF BARNARD The Associated Press GRANTS PASS, Ore. — The Oregon Fish and Wildlife...

Home Valley Bancorp Reports 2nd Quarter, and YTD - 2008 Earnings (Business Wire)

Thursday July 17, 3:25 pm ET GRANTS PASS, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Home Valley Bancorp (Company) (OTCBB:HVYB - News), the parent company of Home Valley Bank (Bank), reported earnings of $517,000 for the second quarter of 2008,...

Did YOU win a copy of THE SEVEN SINS?

By playing BOOKGASM Blackjack, a lucky handful of you have won autographed copies of Jon Land’s Vegas crime thriller THE SEVEN SINS: THE TYRANT ASCENDING, plus a pack of SEVEN SENS playing cards to go along with it! As you’ll...

BLM: Grazing doesn't fit Ore. National Monument

Federal rangeland managers said continuing to allow cattle to graze on the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument is harming the rare plants, fish and wildlife the monument was created eight years ago to protect.The U.S. Bureau of...

Lawn-chair aviator ready for flight No. 3

Like many Americans, Kent Couch plans to settle into a lawn chair on the Fourth of July weekend. Unlike everyone else, his feet will dangle... GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Like many Americans, Kent Couch plans to settle into a lawn...

Northwest 'Idol' singer inks record deal

Story Published: Jul 2, 2008 at 12:42 PM PDT GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - "American Idol" contestant Kristy Lee Cook of Selma, Ore., has a record deal again. The Grants Pass Daily Courier reports that Cook has signed with 19...

Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle Announces 2008 Community Spirit Award Recipient

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle (Seattle Bank) has named Evergreen Federal Bank of Grants Pass, Oregon, as the recipient of the bank's 2008 Community Spirit Award. The annual Community Spirit Award recognizes a Seattle...

June Berry Hill

June Berry Hill died Thursday, June 26, 2008 in Roseburg, Oregon. She was born on June 23, 1923 in Seattle, Washington, to a military family and spent her childhood on various Army posts. In 1943, she joined the Navy WAVES...

Two rulings uphold protecton for marbled murrelet

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - Timber industry efforts to get a small sea bird off the threatened species list were denied in two court rulings. A federal judge in Washington, D.C., and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals turned down...