For Grocery Outlet owners Greg and Jessi Powell, the grocery business is in their blood.

“Both Greg and I started bagging groceries at Albertsons in the greater Seattle area as 16-year-olds,” Jessi said. “We both loved the dynamic nature of the grocery business and love interacting with people.

Whether playing an instrument or simply enjoying an outdoor concert, music is an important part of our lives. At the Artistic Piano Gallery in Medford (1390 Biddle Road, Suite 107), which opened its doors in 2009, they have continued to evolve and grow in order to meet the needs of the Southern Oregon community.

As a card-carrying member of the Baby Boomer generation, I suppose at some point I’ll have to consider some different living arrangements than what I have now. To get me jumpstarted in the right direction, I may want to give Shiela Ford a call.

Ginger Skudstad, owner of The Hairport Styling Salon (424 NW 6th Street, Suite 108), is celebrating a couple of milestones this year. It was forty years ago in 1977 that she moved to Grants Pass from L.A., and it was 24 years ago that she opened her own styling salon.

There is a new medical clinic in Talent which has survived the fires, COVID and now the passing of a dear friend and mentor, James Jealous, D.O. the founder of Biodynamic Osteopathy.