This illustration by James Love Landscape Architecture shows the new design of the Owl Plaza. Named for the faint mural touting Owl Cigars facing the space, the lot will continue to allow parking, but also will more easily host events. Work began recently, with contractors blocking off the intersection of Fifth and H Street to start staging equipment and supplies.
By Vickie Aldous of the Daily Courier
The city of Grants Pass is warning of disruptions as a project starts to turn the Owl parking lot into a downtown plaza that can pull double-duty as a parking lot and event space.
When not in use for festivals, celebrations, music performances and other events, the Owl Plaza will provide 27 parking spaces.
Grants Pass’ Millie Lathen goes up for a basket during Wednesday’s opening-round Class 6A state playoff game against Lake Oswego at Heater-Newman Memorial Gymnasium. Lathen finished with a game-high 20 points in the season-ending loss.
By Travis Moore of the Daily Courier
“It was a learning experience.”
That’s how Grants Pass coach Ethan Lackey described his young team’s 45-35 loss to Lake Oswego in the first round of the Class 6A girls’ basketball state playoffs on Wednesday at Heater-Newman Memorial Gymnasium.
The 17th-seeded Lakers used a variety of defenses — all of them physical — to slow down the 16th-seeded Cavers’ offense and GP gave up too many easy baskets down the stretch.
(From left) Olivia Glover, who plays astronomer Henrietta Leavitt, Eden Geier, who plays Margaret Leavitt, Olivia Barber, who plays Williamina Fleming, and Marki Wilson, who plays Peter Shaw, rehearse a scene from Grants Pass High School’s “Silent Sky.”
By Kathleen Alaks of the Daily Courier
In homage to Women’s History Month, it is a strong, intelligent, compassionate and tenacious woman who is the beating heart of “Silent Sky,” the spring play opening Friday at Grants Pass High School.
A celebration of science and female achievement, “Silent Sky” is the true story of pioneering astronomer Henrietta Leavitt, who, in the early 1900s discovered how to effectively measure vast astronomical distances.
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