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City of Medford The City of Medford has created an online map of the city split into 14 zones so people can more easily identify their neighborhood and evacuation routes during a disaster. When thousands of people had to evacuate their homes during last year’s wildfires in Jackson County, people got stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic. That prompted the City of Medford to launched an online map to help people plan ahead for next time. The online map has the city divided into 14 zones. And each zone has multiple evacuation routes. Emergency management coordinator Aaron Ott says that’s int...

Medford launches interactive evacuation zone map The City of Medford says that the map is intended to help Medford residents plan for the next emergency while helping first responders issue emergency notifications. Posted: May 11, 2021 10:18 AM Posted By: Jamie Parfitt MEDFORD, Ore. — The City of Medford on Tuesday rolled out a new interactive evacuation map, intended to help Medford residents and businesses "prepare for the next evacuation or emergency." The online map is also intended to help City officials send out emergency notifications in a timely manner. The map divides up Medford ...

GARRETT — At Tuesday’s meeting of the Garrett Board of Works, Executive Director Anton King of the DeKalb County Economic Development Partnership shared highlights from 2020 amid the pandemic, “which oddly was a record-breaking year from a dollar-investment standpoint,” he said. “What we saw was it was a time to hit the pause button, with companies realizing where to make their dollar investments strategically. DeKalb County was the benefactor of several consolidations,” he said, reporting some $145 million in investments in the county as a whole, a total 43 deal...

GARRETT — Plans are moving forward to open the Garrett City Pool this summer. Work has begun this week to dismantle the large, blue slide at the city pool in order for a new slide to be installed this spring, according to Parks Superintendent Eric Mossberger. The city is taking applications for lifeguards and will train them for the season, with the mindset that the pool will be open this year. Applications can be made at City Hall or on the city’s webpage. City Planner Milton Otero told the Board of Works Tuesday the 2021 Boundary and Annexation Survey paper maps have been updated ...

GARRETT — While deliveries at the City of Garrett recycling center were down by nearly one-third last year, the center showed increases in both revenue and recyclable materials, City Planner Milton Otero reported to the Board of Works Tuesday. His report tallied a total of 2,529 vehicles that delivered recyclable materials to the drive-through site on North Cowen Street in 2020, a decrease of 30.6% from 2019. The center saw 1,092 total volunteer hours accumulated, a decrease of 19.1% from the previous year. The report showed the recycling center collected a total of 25,798 pounds of recy...