Monthly Archives: July 2019
Air Quality Advisory thru Thursday
Smoke from the Milepost 97 fire will continue to push south and southeast into portions of Josephine and Jackson County in the late afternoons and evenings with widespread light to moderate smoke during the...
Man Accused of Deliberately Transmitting STD’s
James Allen Propes of Gold Beach, Oregon, was taken into custody by Curry County Sheriff’s Deputies last Thursday, July 25th. The arrest stemmed from a complaint received by the Curry County Sheriff's Office months...
Citations Issued for After Kittens Abandoned
Last Thursday evening, July 25th, Curry County Sheriff John Ward went on social media asking the community to help identify who had dropped off three kittens about 7 to 8 weeks old on the...
Lucky 3 For 1 Drug Bust Yields Large Amounts of Drugs
On July 17th, 2019, Rogue Area Drug Enforcement Detectives executed a search warrant regarding a drug investigation in Grants Pass. The subject of the investigation/search warrant was Robert Goodlette.
Due to information that Goodlette possessed...
Truck Crash Closes Hwy. 199
Just after 7:30am Monday morning, the Illinois Valley Fire District and American Medical Response, responded to a flatbed truck crash on Hwy. 199 near Wild Park Ln.
The flatbed was hauling a pickup truck when...
New Firefighter Rescue Team Active During Milepost 97 Fire
The joint Rural Metro Fire/American Medical Response Remote Rescue Teams deployed on the Milepost 97 Fire, have already been involved in the extraction and treatment of 3 wildland firefighters over the weekend.
The deployment of...
Milepost Fire Slows but Continues to Grow
After several days of the Milepost 97 fire eating acreage at a rate of thousands of acres a day, authorities saw a slow in the fires advancement Sunday. The fire has grown to 11,668...
Local Boys Make it to Cooperstown
Several Little League baseball players from the southwest Oregon area returned home last week after participating in the 2019 Cooperstown Dreams Park American Youth Baseball 12-and-under Hall of Fame Invitational Tournament.
The American Youth Baseball...
Man Tased During Robbery
Just after 9:00 pm Saturday night, officers were dispatched to the Golden Wok, on S. Riverside Avenue for an armed robbery in progress. It was reported that the suspect was purporting to be armed...
Blaze Destroys Car
On Saturday, July 27, just after 11:00pm, the Illinois Valley Fire District and Oregon Department of Forestry responded to a vehicle fire.
The engine compartment was engulfed in flames when the first unit arrived on...