Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-19
A seven-year legal showdown between the Ashland Gun and Archery Club and three of its neighbors, including the owner of Belle Fiore Winery, ended with a whimper and not with a bang. U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken dismissed the lawsuit March 5 after the city of Ashland spent more than $1 million for legal fees, environmental studies and wetland mitigation efforts, even though no lead pollution was found in wetlands on the property at 555 Emigrant Creek Road. Neighbors Cathy DeForest, Leon Pyle and
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-26
Letters, March 26 by Mail Tribune readers Tuesday, March 26th 2019 A A Webletters Graphic.jpg Editorial missed the point Your editorial on rent control missed the point regarding smaller landlords. We made investment decisions to purchase rental homes as far back as 30 years ago for our retirement. Now our ability to control our properties has been taken away from us just as we are retiring. Part of our plan is based on the possible need for cash to fund our retirement as necessary, which includ
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-26
Oregon close to finalizing cap-and-trade bill by SARAH ZIMMERMAN Associated Press Tuesday, March 26th 2019 A A Oregon State Capitol Building in Salem Oregon SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon lawmakers on Monday unveiled a compromise proposal to a controversial cap-and-trade bill regulating greenhouse gas emissions, responding to overwhelming opposition from businesses and agricultural groups who worry the plan could put them out of work. If passed, Oregon would become the second state in the coun
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-26
Youth turkey hunt gearing up by Mark Freeman of the Mail Tribune Friday, March 8th 2019 A A <br>Youth hunters could be hunting in the snow at C2 Ranch outside of Lake Creek next month.<br> A dozen young guns will get a good shot at bagging a tom turkey this spring as part of an agreement with a local ranch that helps create hunting access and wildlife forage habitat. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will hold a drawing for youth hunters to win one of 12 hunts — up fr
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-17
Friday, March 8 Green Mountain Guild : Portland pop ensemble Green Mountain Guild will perform at 5 p.m. Friday, March 8, at Kriselle Cellars, 12956 Modoc Road, White City. Admission is free. See krisellecellars.com or call 541-830-8466. Dayton Mason: Singer, songwriter and guitarist Dayton Mayson will perform at 5 p.m. Friday, March 8, at Schmidt Family Vineyards, 330 Kubli Road, Grants Pass, Admission is free. See sfvineyards.com or call 541-846-9985. The Keller Sisters: The duo, made up of Sh
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-17
Efforts to reopen the road so visitors to Crater Lake National Park can see the lake continue to be frustrated by new snow but, even more, equipment breakdowns. “The road gets narrower and narrower,” park superintendent Craig Ackerman says of the three-mile road from park headquarters in Munson Valley up to Rim Village. “We can’t open the road until we have room for two vehicles. Right now there is no place to push the snow off the side of the road.” A combination o
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-18
In an internal Republican Party memo, officials tried to come to grips with the possibility of Donald Trump as their nominee by comparing Trump to Wendell Willkie, the businessman who won the 1940 Republican nomination. "Willkie and Trump have a lot in common," Ward Baker, executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, wrote at the beginning of the memo, obtained last week by my Washington Post colleagues Robert Costa and Philip Rucker. "Both were seen as fresh-faced outside
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-17
PORTLAND — When the mother of mass shooter Christopher Harper Mercer got an automated voicemail from her son's college in Oregon about shots fired on campus, she first called the hospital. Then, she called the jail. Finally, she checked his bedroom to see if any of his many guns were missing. "I had thought too, well, just play a long shot and I'm just gonna like go check his inventory, his guns," Laurel Harper told police after the shooting. That long shot turned into a parent's nightmar
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-17
PHOENIX — The mayor and three remaining members of the City Council voted Tuesday to settle with City Manager Jane Turner to avoid future litigation and to keep Turner on board while her replacement is hired. The agreement essentially awards Turner $60,000 in severance pay when she leaves the city in March in exchange for her releasing the city and all council members from any potential claims relating to alleged violations of her employment contract in recent months. Turner retained an at
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-19
Ashland is the Rogue Valley's new Boom town. Boomer Marshall, fresh off a record-shattering career as quarterback of the South Medford Panthers, announced Thursday that he will play college football for Southern Oregon University. The Southern Oregon Conference player of the year passed for an unofficial SOC-record 3,446 yards and 36 touchdowns to lead the Panthers to the conference championship, the Class 4A state quarterfinals and a 10-2 overall record last fall. Raiders head coach Jeff Olson
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-17
Charley Cobb Medford High School, 1969 Charley Cobb was the big man on campus, literally and figuratively, when he starred in football and basketball for the Medford Black Tornado. That changed when the 6-foot-7, 245-pound lineman and post player went to Oregon and joined the football team. Scanning the huddle, he saw his roommate, Dan Fouts, and a couple of other pretty fair quarterbacks in Norv Turner, now offensive coordinator for the Miami Dolphins, and June Jones, who later transferred to P
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-18
A man accused in a Northern California stabbing was arrested Tuesday at an East Medford apartment complex. Derek Ray Johnson, 24, is being held in the Jackson County Jail without bail as an out-of-state fugitive charged in a late February attack on a 51-year-old man out of Fortuna, California, according to releases issued by the Jackson County Sheriff's Office and Jackson County Circuit Court records. Johnson waived extradition Wednesday in Jackson County Circuit Court, and will be extradited to
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-08
Teacher strikes can lead to unusually bad behavior and leave community wounds that take generations to heal, say academic experts and others who have lived through labor strife. Since 1973, Oregon has seen more than 20 strikes, some of them intensely acrimonious, leaving scars and long-term distrust. Former Marshfield High School teacher Eleanor Dinkins, one of 213 Coos Bay teachers who went on strike 27 years ago, recalls an incident that still leaves her shaking her head. It was a Monday in Ap
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-07
SALEM -- Oregon bade farewell Wednesday to Secretary of State Dennis Richardson, a Republican who defied the odds to break Democrats' three-decade grip on his office but whose bid to usher in good-government reforms was cut short when he died last week of brain cancer. As Richardson's flag-draped casket lay in state in the Capitol rotunda, with an Army honor guard standing watch, lawmakers, friends and well-wishers paid respects to a man they said governed with unflinching integrity and lived th
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-08
The Oregon Department of State Lands has extended its deadline by six months on whether to issue a construction permit to the Jordan Cove LNG pipeline project, according to the DSL’s website. According to the website, the department has been deluged with some 49,000 to 57,000 comments. It did not say which way the majority of the comments fell, be it in favor or opposition. The deadline for a DSL decision will now end Sept. 20 for the company’s application for a removal-fill permit t
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-08
If you want an alligator or monkey as a pet, you're out of luck. The same goes for lions and tigers and grizzlies. Only Oregon residents who already have permits for some of these exotic animals will be allowed to keep them starting Jan. 1. A new state law, passed in 2009, is designed to protect the public from these type of animals and to limit the number of non-native species in Oregon. "They are still classified as potentially dangerous animals," said Bruce Pokarney, spokesperson for the Oreg
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-07
Unless it comes up with $20,000 by March 20 for upgrades required by city codes, the 8-year-old Randall Theatre in downtown Medford will have to fold, says Executive Director Robin Downward. The do-or-die financial emergency came up in late 2018, when the theater got hit with expenses for seismic retrofits, permits, engineering study and architecture work in its effort to change occupancy from retail to an event space at 20 S. Fir St., says Downward. The expenses in the last quarter dealt a 30 p
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-08
Eagle Point residents will vote on a $95 million school bond in November. The Eagle Point School Board on Wednesday unanimously approved issuing a ballot measure that asks voters to fund a 31-year construction bond to build a new elementary school in White City, improve both Shady Cove School and Eagle Point High School and upgrade safety across the district. It also includes projects to improve parking and energy efficiency. “This is simple for me and the rest of the board,” said Da
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-08
South Medford High School Principal Damian Crowson and Roosevelt Elementary School Principal Isis Contreras both tendered their resignations last week after accepting administrative jobs in other districts. The Eagle Point School District hired Crowson and Vanessa Jones of Tully Lake, California, to fill two available director positions and will assign them their exact responsibilities and titles later this summer, said district Human Resources Director Allen Barber. One of the available directo
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-07
Understand what you oppose Intelligent opposition requires understanding what you are opposing. Dennis Sinclair’s Feb. 16 letter needs much work to demonstrate this. If a scientific theory appears to work well and has been confirmed as valid from a number of qualified sources, this leads to acceptance of the theory as a valid way of regarding the system under question until refuted. This is science. Sinclair needs to look up scientific consensus along with China and India’s global wa