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Families in the Medford School District now can say with certainty where their children will attend middle and high school when classroom doors open in fall 2023. After a long process that involved mu...

Based on feedback it received from Hoover Elementary School families, the Medford School Board agreed Thursday to some changes district officials recommended to the proposed scenario that would change...

A future middle school in downtown Medford has a name and a principal. Now, in preparation for Oakdale Middle School’s opening in the fall of 2023, the work to establish attendance boundaries for the ...

Wright State Theater presents “Sweat”, a provocative play that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2017. The play helps us understand what events led to our deepening divisions of class and race. Culture Couch producer David Seitz visited rehearsals, talked to two actors, and recorded some of the play.

The Cherokee Nation Tribal Employment Rights Office has nearly 700 Native-owned companies and more than 100 artists that are TERO-certified vendors able to do business with the tribe and compete

A year ago, on May 10, 2020, the world lost a soul music icon, but singer/songwriter Asher Makeba and her four children lost a loving mother and grandmother. For Mental Health Awareness Month this May, Makeba opened up to Betty Wright, on Mother’s Day, as well as her own journey of motherhood through two bouts of postpartum depression. “On Mother’s Day, I plan to not be sad,” says Makeba of the 1-year anniversary of Wright’s transition. “We prepare to be sad. People brace themselv...