The Grants Pass City Council plans to start over with a new consultant after a previous consultant developed what one councilor called “grossly inflated” pay proposals for nonunion city workers, including the city manager and department heads.

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Grants Pass had six wrestlers make the semifinals, South Medford won two individual titles and the Crater boys had four champions to place second as a team at the state wresting meets on Saturday at the Memorial Coliseum in Portland.

The Grants Pass boys got three athletes through to the final four, as did the Cavers, and all six placed in the Class 6A boys’ and 6A/5A girls’ state meets.

As Ashland Community Hospital becomes a “satellite campus” of Medford’s Rogue Regional Medical Center, Asante is inviting the public to a series of community forums to discuss next steps.

But not the news media.

According to Asante, which owns both hospitals, the community roundtables will be held in person at Ashland Community Hospital and are a place to discuss what health care services will be provided and next steps for the diminished facility.

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A two-person musical spoof, about a musical that tells the story of the invention of the printing press, opens this week in Medford.

In “Gutenberg! The Musical,” aspiring playwrights Bud and Doug perform a backers’ audition for their ill-advised musical about Johannes Gutenberg.

Actors Shayne LeQuieu and Declan Whitworth sing all the songs and play all the characters, with the help of a lot of hats.