SELMA — Efforts are being renewed to fix one of the most unsafe dams in Oregon — the one that holds back Lake Selmac.

The McMullen Dam, an earthfill structure built when the lake was made in 1960, has been categorized by the state since 2014 as a high risk of failure because of the small size and poor condition of its spillway and because of its vulnerability to earthquakes.

North Valley trailed Reedsport early on, but finished with eight runs over the final two innings to win a non-league baseball game 12-2 in six innings Friday in Merlin.

The Brave (9-12) took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first and were ahead 2-1 in the second, but it was all Knights (6-16) after that.

North Valley finishes the season with a non-league doubleheader Tuesday at Coquille, but Friday's game was the final home contest for the Knights.

Jackson County Public Health issued an alert on Friday that measles has been detected in sewage through routine testing.

The sample that tested positive for the highly contagious disease was collected on May 6 from a sewage treatment plant in Jackson County and met a low threshold level, the public health department said.

This is the first low-level detection in Jackson County since sewage testing for measles began in October 2025, public health officials said.

Photographer Pam Arbogast’s “End of the Season” is the Wild Rivers Photography Club’s image of the month for May.

She took the image last fall, after the sunflowers in her garden had lost their colorful petals but were full of seeds.