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• Program keeps the music alive for kids - 2/8/2010
  

  On the day Ryan Wilson returned home from Medford’s McLoughlin Middle School to announce he had tried out and been accepted into the...

• Spark of Electricity - 2/6/2010
  

  In15-year-old Bonny Panchal's native country of India, people zooming to and from work and running errands on electric bicycles is a common sight.

• RCC could stamp out smoking - 2/5/2010
  

  Rogue Community College looks at campuswide tobacco ban at all three locations; other options, however, are being considered.

• School Board OKs plan for old South Medford High - 2/3/2010
  

  MEDFORD — The Medford School Board Tuesday unanimously approved a plan to consolidate the school district's central administration, support...

• Madrone Trail pact renewal backed - 2/3/2010
  

  About 50 people turned out at a public hearing Tuesday to urge the Medford School Board to renew a three-year contract with Madrone Trail Public...

• School bus strike averted - 2/3/2010
  

  First Student bus drivers who transport Medford and Prospect public school students voted Tuesday to accept a three-year labor contract, diverting a...

• Grant gives North 34 new computers - 2/2/2010
  

  In the back corner of the North Medford High School campus, students in the school's technical arts program are designing multi-family dwellings and...

• SOU winter enrollment hits record - 2/2/2010
  

  ASHLAND — Budget cuts in California's higher-education system have helped Southern Oregon University push winter enrollment to new highs.

• Madrone Trail public hearing - 2/1/2010
  

  The Medford School Board will hear from the public Tuesday on a request to renew the charter for the Madrone Trail Public Charter School for three...

• Rogue River mulls 4-day school week - 1/30/2010
  

  ROGUE RIVER — A School District task force will meet again in February to consider options that include four-day school weeks, shifting...

• Wilson after-school program goes free - 1/29/2010
  

  After school, second-grader Skyler Ferguson and her friends practice card tricks in the cafeteria at Medford's Wilson Elementary School as part of a...

• Schools relieved by tax measures' passage - 1/28/2010
  

  Voter approval of two measures that will raise corporate taxes and personal income taxes for high-income earners is expected to prevent more cuts in...

• Fast Track - 1/25/2010
  

  If you're headed to Southern Oregon University and worried about the long stretch of time and money you'll have to invest, check out the school's...

• A place for learning language - 1/25/2010
  

  Ashland resident Jeanne LeGrand sits at a table in a warehouse office at The Language Spot on Ashland's East Hersey Street and gives her classmates...