Phil Turnbull is ready to finish a job he started in the 1970s.

This week the new Mid Rogue Fire District asked Turnbull, co-founder and longtime fire chief of Rural Metro Fire, to come out of retirement to serve as the district’s first executive director.

Grants Pass used an eight-run outburst in the bottom of the sixth inning to break a 7-7 tie and claim a 15-7 win over Westview at the Mountainside Tournament on Wednesday in Beaverton.

Four different Grants Pass players — Nathan Bassett, Erick Pezqueda, Ryan Sedivy and Cameron Holland — drove in a pair of runs as the Cavemen (2-5) hit a double-digit run total for the second straight day of tournament play.

A 21-year-old man was arrested Wednesday in connection with a shooting that left one person dead and wounded another at the Grants Pass Shopping Center.

Kyler Anthony Talbot was booked on suspicion of second-degree murder, first-degree aggravated assault, two counts of unlawful use of a weapon and being a felon in possession of a weapon, according to Josephine County Jail records.

When you see the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” this season — and you really should — keep your eye on Puck.

Puck is the agent of magic and chaos in “Midsummer,” which opened Friday in the Bowmer Theatre. One of Shakespeare’s earliest plays, it follows four young lovers, a troupe of amateur actors and a quarreling fairy king and queen on one chaotic night in an Athenian forest.