Good morning, Medford.

A 16-year-old Eagle Point girl who hopes to become a police officer was hit by a vehicle on Oct.

10 and underwent emergency brain surgery; doctors report early signs of response while she remains unconscious in intensive care.

Arts groups in Jackson and Josephine counties will receive a combined $101,775 from the Oregon Arts Commission’s Sustaining Arts Program for fiscal year 2027 (July 2026–June 2027); the funding is part of $1.3 million awarded statewide to 317 nonprofits for ongoing arts programming.

On Oct. 15, city crews relocated a 35-foot Deodar cedar from the intersection of Barnett Road + Highland Drive to Pear Blossom Park for the Winter Lights Festival, replacing a 45-foot Norway spruce removed earlier because of declining health.

On Oct. 14, staff at the Ashland Wastewater Treatment Plant rescued a beaver swimming in a secondary clarifier and returned it to Ashland Creek with help from Project Beaver.

The union contract for over 1,000 nurses at Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center expired last month, but their protections remain while Asante and the Oregon Nurses Association work on a new deal.

Negotiations began in July and further meetings are planned later this month (and in early November).