Lynda Demsher
As It Was ContributorLynda Demsher has been editor of a small-town weekly newspaper, a radio reporter, a daily newspaper reporter and columnist for the Redding Record Searchlight, Redding California. During the 1990s and early 2000s she taught high school English in Redding. She lived in Alturas, California for 15 years where she ran the Adult Education program for the Modoc Joint Union High School District until her retirement. She has been an occasional contributor to the Modoc Record, and a volunteer for Modoc's High Plateau Humane Society and the Friends of the Modoc National Wildlife Refuge, among other non-profit organizations in that small community needing someone to do public relations, ads, marketing, grant writing and photography. She moved to Grants Pass in early 2015 to be closer to family and the coast, where she and her husband keep a fishing boat ready for the salmon run.
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Democrat Wins 1916 Election in Conservative Josephine County -
Democrat Wins 1916 Election in Conservative Josephine County
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Inmate Escapes Gold Hill Work Crew In 1919
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Inmate Escapes Gold Hill Work Crew In 1919
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Methodist Preacher and Wife Killed En Route to Church
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Methodist Preacher and Wife Killed En Route to Church
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The Rogue River Courier reported on two separate shootings in January of 1910 that created widespread interest in Grants Pass, Ore.In one incident, a…
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Twenty-seven miles west of Grants Pass is a small town once named Napoleon. The town started out as Kerbyville, but is known today as simply Kerby.The…
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In 1843, one of the first things the new governor of the Oregon Territory did was try to find a better Oregon Trail. The governor, George Abernathy,…
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Residents and miners in the Rogue River Canyon in the early 1900s, couldn’t have survived without men like John Billings.Billings was a packer who took…
