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• Public safety levy shot down in flames by county’s voters
  No patrol deputies, fewer prosecutions will follow 126 employees who will be layed off due to lack of funds

  

  “A dark day” in Josephine County history is how county commission Chairman Jim Raffenburg describes the overwhelming defeat of a public safety levy in the Tuesday, May 15 special election. more. . .

• Fed funds for JOINT

  

  Josephine County Sheriff’s Office (JCSO) has received federal funding since the late 1980s for the sake of eradicating marijuana grown on public land -- but the county’s financial difficulties may mean the end of such efforts this year. more. . .

• Two fairness bills passed

  

  Two bills “ensuring that all Oregon families are treated with basic fairness and that all Oregonians can live and work free from the sting of discrimination, regardless of sexual orientation or gender” were signed into law Wednesday, May 9 by Gov. Kulongoski.

• It’s sink or swim time for CJ pool
  On Thursday, May 17, the circus is coming to town.

  

  Culpepper & Merriweather Circus, based in Oklahoma, will bring its tent show to the Junction Inn vacant lot, with shows at 5 and 7:30 p.m.

  There will be high wire, trapeze and gymnastics performances, plus clowns. A percentage of funds raised from advance ticket sales will go toward helping Cave Junction Pool Committee with its efforts to repair that facility. more. . . . . .

• Clinic open house Friday

  

  An open house with a ribbon-cutting and refreshments will be held at Siskiyou Community Health Center Friday, May 18.

  The Illinois Valley community event will run from 4 to 7 p.m. The ceremonial ribbon-cutting will be held at 6 p.m.

• County Fair Board aims for fiscal sustainability

  

  Because the Josephine County Fair Board only has until June 30 to get its financial house of cards in order, a fund-raising series is scheduled to try and close the gap.

  In November 2006, the county commissioners learned that the fairgrounds was failing to make payroll, and was $68,000 in debt.

• USPS stamps out old rates

  

  Information in a page 1 story in the May 9 issue about new U.S. Postal Service rates effective Monday, May 14 was incorrect.

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• Couple's 'love of rocks' rocking on

  For more than four years, Gabrielle and Fredrick Hampton owned a successful rock-and-mineral shop in Walker Lake, Nev.

• More stories to come

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  News from seventy years ago

  Another in a series celebrating Josephine County's sesquicentennial and 70 years of the Illinois Valley News.

  See the entire archive of stories here.

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  celebration on horizon;

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• Warming up to political promises; 'Keep on running'; IRVAC volunteers noted; Supertankers firefighting key

  

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• Deborah Dawson art at Sterling Bank

  Work by Deborah Dawson, one of the area’s best-known and most prolific artists, is featured at Sterling Savings Bank in Cave Junction during May and June as sponsored by Illinois Valley Fine Artists Inc.

• Cave Junction Art Walk - May 11

  Enjoy an assortmant of photos of the Cave Junction Artwalk of May 11th.

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