JCFD #3 fills two key positions

{gallery}12_20_11/fd3{/gallery} Jackson County Fire District No. 3 will soon have two new employees filling two key vacancies. Already on board is John Patterson. He has been hired as Deputy Fire Marshal. Don Hickman retired as Deputy Fire Marshal earlier this year. He is now doing some public relations  work for the department on a part-time…

Safety key reason for SC partition denial

The Jan. 13th Shady Cove Planning Commission meeting proved a very educational one. Lessons learned included: when it comes to city planning at least, you really can plan too far ahead and sometimes it’s best to just wait; and even issues which seem simple at first are worth discussing as many minds and eyes may…

D9 school improve, off “watch list”

State Schools Superintendent Susan Castillo announced last week that the two schools in District 9 that had been on the No Child Left Behind  “Safety watch list” were no longer on that list. Eagle Point Middle School and Eagle Point High School improvements were such that they have been removed from the list. “Creating a…