Our Valley 2011

• No Brag, Just Fact

  Law 27-B of Journalism is that you never, ever call anything the first, biggest, oldest, longest or most of anything, ever.

• Special Delivery

  "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

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  Moment in Time

  What is believed to be Jackson County's oldest stone gravemarker overlooks Emigrant Lake and contains the remains of a 19-year-old man killed in the Rogue Indian War of 1853.

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  The Name Is The Same

  Dr. Danna Catt loves nothing better than curling up with one of her five purring felines.

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  Hanby holds a special place in hearts of Gold Hill

  Built in 1910 on Nugget Butte in Gold Hill, Hanby Middle School has the distinction of being Jackson County's oldest surviving, continuously operating public institution of learning.

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  Long-term care

  Patients have more holistic ways to heal in Ashland Community Hospital's second century of medicine.

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  Water, water, everywhere

  The Rogue Valley Family YMCA in Medford created quite a splash when it opened a $1.8 million aquatic center containing Jackson County's largest indoor swimming pool in June 1993.

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  The Deep Blue ... See?

  For one of the most extreme places in Oregon, we turn northeast to Crater Lake.

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  It's the climate changes

  We love the Rogue Valley for its mostly mild climate, but that doesn't mean we haven't seen extreme weather.

• The Rogue Valley Sea

  Winter in Southern Oregon can be full of surprises, and sometimes the surprise is a devastating flood.

• Digging into the Ditches

• Run for your Life

• Caught on the Fly

• The Big One

• Buried secrets

• Our Town

• Pieces of the Past

• What They Will Do

• Seeing Stars

• Role call

• Cover Story

• Everyone's on the same page

• Everybody Hurts

• Listen to the Numbers

• Foundation for Giving

• Pear Necessities

• The King Of Aces

• Point Man

• Pool player makes a splash

• Rocky Road

• 'Railroad of the Future'

• If these walls could talk

• Feast for the Eyes

• The High Point

Archives

Our Valley 2010

Our Valley: Inventions and Innovations

Our Valley 2009

Our Valley: Our Virtual Valley

Our Valley 2008

Our Valley: Who Does That? Odd jobs in the Rogue Valley.

Our Valley 2007

2007's edition of Our Valley, subtitled "Now You Know," is dedicated to those pesky little questions which nag at you for years.

From Homelife Magazine

May is prime time to dethatch and aerate lawns

CORVALLIS — May is an optimum time to aerate and dethatch your lawn.