MEDFORD — Sentencing for the man who caused a 34,000-acre forest fire that threatened a remote community west of Grants Pass in 2023 has been pushed to December after a federal judge on Thursday heard competing arguments about whether the defendant should be held responsible for any part of the $63 million cost in damages in firefighting costs.

When you rewrite the record books, people notice.

For the second straight season, Grants Pass wide receiver Brevik Hill was named the Southwest Conference’s Offensive Player of the Year in football honors announced this week.

He also took home a first-team award as a defensive back for the second year in a row.

When I called my old friend Richard Eubank in Eugene on Nov. 10 to wish him a happy birthday, I knew he would beat me to the punch.

After all, he would see my number pop up on his phone before I could even utter a word.

“Happy birthday, Marine,” he said, then burst into his hearty laugh that would rattle window panes.

Photographer Tom Hamilton’s “Timeless Sunset” is the Wild Rivers Photography Club’s image of the month for November.

He took the image on March 20, 2022 on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park.

“When we arrived at the park on March 18 it was snowing and there was only a couple hundred feet visibility,” Hamilton says.