Shellye Leggett

8-time Grammy Award winner, Carrie Underwood, is set to perform in the Rogue Valley. On December 19, 2022, the Jackson County Fairgrounds and Expo announced the first ever Rogue Music Festival, presented by the Cow Creek Umpqua Tribe, on Father’s Day weekend. Eric Church will start things off Friday, June 16, with Underwood headlining and […]

ASHLAND, Ore. – Community members and several community leaders organized a rally in Ashland Wednesday evening to demand accountability. Robert Keegan was found guilty earlier this week of 1st degree manslaughter, and not murder, after shooting and killing 19-year-old Aidan Ellison in November 2020. Dozens packed Ashland Plaza demanding justice Ellison. “It’s heartbreaking, you know, someone died. You […]

The former Oregon Shakespeare Festival Executive Director, David Schmitz, left the organization in January 2023. We’re now learning what he’s been up to since then. After the hardships OSF experienced throughout the pandemic, Schmitz developed a purpose driven consulting firm to help other organizations experiencing similar troubles. It’s called Amplify Leadership Advisors. It focuses on creating success stories for arts organizations. It provides transitional leadership, management counseling a…

PHOENIX, Ore. – Several Phoenix High School students are being recognized in the art world. The four of them took 1st through 4th place, in Representative Cliff Bentz’s 2023 Congressional Art Competition. “It felt like I achieved something I thought I never could of done in a million years,” said PHS Junior, Shayna Giron. They placed 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th in […]

KLAMATH COUNTY, Ore. – In early May, a Klamath County Library book club was canceled, after complaints from residents. They were upset about a book being featured by the club called, ‘No More Police: A Case for Abolition.’ The library group is called ‘The Social Justice Book Group’ and was created in September 2022. Every month, the group […]

There’s a brand-new mural in Ashland, with a heartfelt meaning behind it. Cate Battles is a local artist out of Grants Pass. She’s said while she was working on another mural in Grants Pass, she was approached by a couple. That couple turned out to be Andrew and Julie Pollack, the parents of Meadow Pollack. Meadow was one of […]

JACKSONVILLE, Ore. – The owners of the historic McCully House Inn have major plans to bring back a piece of its land. If you’ve ever taken a walk in historic downtown Jacksonville, you can’t miss it, the McCully House Inn. The owners of the inn, Kathryn Moseley and Philip Segal, bought it in July 2021 and started restoring it. “It’s an iconic […]

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. – A trial date is set for a nearly $12 million-dollar federal lawsuit, against the city of Klamath Falls. The owners of a Mexican restaurant and lounge, in the downtown area said their business suffered because they were targeted and *discriminated against because of their ethnic background. “This lawsuit was filed a long time ago and because […]

MEDFORD, Ore. – Tourism all over Oregon took a positive turn last year, especially in Jackson and Josephine counties. “The travel and tourism industry specifically in Oregon and really the global economy was hammered hard by the impacts of the pandemic,” said the CEO of Travel Oregon, Todd Davidson. The positive news is just in […]

A Bandon business is making a name for itself in the fruit wine industry, with help from wine makers in the Rogue Valley. Lori Osburne, the owner of Farm & Sea in Bandon, Ore., started her wine journey about 10 years ago. “I wanted to do something different than the grocery stores,” Osburne said. But in […]

A wind fueled grass fire in Central Point, forced Level 3 evacuations. Jackson County Fire District 3 and the Oregon Department of Forestry were first on scene at Table Rock Rd. and Latigo Lane, in Northeast Central Point, Thursday afternoon. ODF said the fire grew to about 65 acres before crews contained it. “I always hear sirens, but this time I heard them stop,” […]