Preservation of Talent’s historic 1899 Town Hall will start at the bottom. Talent City Council voted to enter into a $235,000 design-build contract with Ausland Group for foundation repair work at its Dec. 19 meeting. Stalled plans for building repairs were taken up early in the year, but a fire in the basement on April 17 brought issues to the forefront.
Although mobile home parks once offered affordable living options, a shift during the past decade found privately owned investment and property management companies purchasing or stepping in to manage mobile home parks which, residents say, have imposed stringent rules that were not in place when they first moved in.
An art show that opened Sunday, Nov. 10, in Phoenix gives 18 local artists the chance to show their talent and to help build an artist community. “Autumn X ” was designed to push back against the isolation and lack of opportunity many artists in the area experience, according to a recent survey.
Residents and organizations in many areas of Jackson County will get free tree services, including assessments, pruning, planting of new trees and hazardous tree removal, through an OUR Community Forestry grant-funded Rogue Treesilience initiative. OCF will hold a kickoff event for the program work on Friday, Nov. 8, at 309 S. Pacific Highway in Talent.
The 53rd annual Talent Harvest Festival was held Saturday downtown under perfectly sunny autumn skies. Thousands turned out for the event, which kicked off with the Talent Harvest Festival 5K, 10K and Fun runs, and included a morning pet parade. Live music was played at the Wagner Plaza, Old Town Park and the Library Commons Park.
Downtown Talent will be filled with the lively sights, sounds and smells of fall this October as the annual Talent Harvest Festival returns with lots to do, see and taste. The Talent Harvest Festival will be held 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, throughout downtown Talent.
Talent Maker City is making its mark in Southern Oregon with its new 8,000 square-foot facility which will be an innovative hub and makerspace for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math (STEAM), which celebrated its newly expanded space on Saturday.
It’s the end of a pizza era as The Grotto Pizzeria in Talent served its last slice of pizza Saturday, Sept. 7. After more than 20 years of slinging pizza pie dough, the pizza restaurant at 302 E. Main St. said goodbye. The new owners taking over the spot will be Morrton’s Sports Pizza Bar in Medford, which will call the location Morttons Too.
Talent Maker City will hold its grand reopening 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, at its new makerspace building at 109 Talent Ave. An official ribbon cutting and speeches begin at 11 a.m., followed by hands-on activities for all ages.
A days-long search for two missing women ended sadly with both found dead by local law enforcement Tuesday. Jackson County Search and Rescue crews, as well as Medford and Talent police, began searching for Fortuna, California, resident Carolyn “Carrie” Carter-Griffin on Friday, and for Talent resident Mary Nougier on Monday.
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After a successful production of “The Vagina Monologues” and raising more than $2,000 for Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon, Ashland actor and director Lia Dugal intends for “The Climate Monologues” to premiere in Oregon in late 2025 or early 2026 at the Bellview Grange in Ashland.
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Herbert Rothschild: Whether visualization and intention by themselves can effect broad social change is impossible to determine, but the question merits sustained consideration.
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