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LIGHT LUNCH: Oregon governor forgives boy for swiping hazelnut, pen This photo provided by the Office of Oregon Gov. Kate Brown shows the Governor's response to an apology letter from a fourth-grader to her explaining that his class had toured the Capitol on a field trip in April 2017 and how he took a hazelnut and a pen from the Capitol Building. In a note replying to the letter, which included the pen in question and a $1 reimbursement for the hazelnut, Brown thanked the young man and wrote "I
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Fire damages abandoned house in downtown Medford Medford Fire-Rescue and police responded to a fire Friday morning at an abandoned house on North Orange Street. [Photo by John Paul Valdez] Friday May 19, 2017 at 10:27 AM May 19, 2017 at 10:56 AM Ryan Pfeil Mail Tribune @RyanPfeil A fire damaged the interior of an abandoned house in downtown Medford Friday morning, an emergency that packed a neighborhood street with fire apparatus. Dousing the fir
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Fishing Report: Friday, May 19 Friday May 19, 2017 at 12:01 AM OCEAN OUTLOOK COASTWIDE: Forecasts call for quite the bouncing around of conditions this weekend, with winds up to 20 knots and wind waves around 6 feet today and Saturday, followed by winds Sunday starting at 25 knots but ebbing to 15 knots with 4-foot wind waves. That makes Sunday by far the best opportunity of the weekend. Very good to excellent lingcod and black rockfish catches have occurred recently out
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Get Out: Friday, May 19 Friday May 19, 2017 at 12:01 AM To have an event listed in Get Out!, email the information to [email protected]   Table Rocks guided hikes The Nature Conservancy and BLM sponsor free hikes during weekends in April and May. The hikes are generally limited to 20 people who preregister for the treks. Hikers meet at the Upper or Lower Table Rock trailheads for a moderate-grade hike of up to 4.5 miles round-trip that takes 3 to 5 hours. To
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Third Friday showcases landscapes, iPhoneography and florals "Road to the Long Barn," acrylic by Susan DeRosa, at Rogue Gallery & Art Center. Friday May 19, 2017 at 12:01 AM Vickie Aldous Mail Tribune @VickieAldous The Rogue Gallery & Art Center will showcase four artists with different approaches to the time-honored genre of landscape painting during Third Friday's downtown art walk. "American Views: Emerging Landscapes" features the work of Susan DeRosa of Jacksonv
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Modern interpretations of Mexican food at Plancha "Molcajete gordo" is a stew of steak, chorizo, chicken and shrimp at Plancha in Ashland. [Photo by Sarah Lemon] Friday May 19, 2017 at 12:01 AM Sarah Lemon for the Mail Tribune @thewholedish A “modern” interpretation of Mexican food owes much to traditions of old at a new Ashland restaurant. Plancha opened earlier this spring in a sparsely furnished space on East Main Street. Touting his expansive tequila li
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Pedal to his Mettle Johnno Forsyth, 9, catches air Thursday on a jump in Lithia Park. [Mail Tribune / Jamie Lusch] Friday May 19, 2017 at 12:01 AM Mark Freeman Mail Tribune @MTwriterFreeman ASHLAND — Mountain bikers who maintain the adage that kids don't climb need to meet Johnno Forsyth. Just the other day this 9-year-old Ashland boy went on a 15-mile ride in the Ashland Watershed that included a 3,000-foot climb, and with none other than 20-year mountain-bi
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Dodging obstacles on the Middle Fork Trail Hikers work their way through a fire-scarred landscape on the Middle Fork Trail. [Photo by Lee Juillerat] Friday May 19, 2017 at 12:01 AM By Lee Juillerat for the Mail Tribune If you call up the Forest Service's Butte Falls Ranger District office and ask about the Middle Fork Trail, they'll probably suggest taking another hike. Unless you don't mind clambering over and around deadfalls, that's not bad advice. The Middle Fork Tra
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Last-minute hunt applications set ODFW records Friday May 19, 2017 at 12:01 AM Mark Freeman Mail Tribune @MTwriterFreeman Oregon hunters set a record for procrastination this year then followed it up Monday with a record for most hunting documents sold in a single day. Hunters purchased more than $8.755 million worth of licenses and controlled-hunt applications on the last day possible, an all-time, one-day record for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. The surge
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Since You Asked: Gravel trucks on Griffin Creek Road are from a quarry Friday May 19, 2017 at 12:01 AM I live on Griffin Creek Road. Why have there been so many gravel trucks going by daily for the past year? Are they building a road from Jacksonville to Ashland? — Scott M., via email Negative on the Jacksonville-to-Ashland commute theory, Scott. County officials tell us that steady stream of truck traffic is from a nearby gravel pit. "I know it's not construction
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States scramble to comply with federal ID law before deadline Gov. Jay Inslee signs a bill that seeks to bring Washington state into compliance with the federal REAL ID Act on Tuesday in Olympia, Wash. Washington state already offers enhanced driver's licenses and IDs that require proof of U.S. citizenship and are already valid under the federal law. The new state law keeps that license and, starting in July 2018, will mark the current standard state licenses to indicate they are not REAL ID-com
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Medford resident Birdie Johnson dies at 110 Birdie Johnson, shown here playing Scrabble in 2012, passed away this week at 110 years of age. [Mail Tribune / file photo] Thursday May 18, 2017 at 6:30 PM May 18, 2017 at 6:30 PM Buffy Pollock for the Mail Tribune Birdie Johnson wasn't one for a lot of fuss. The Medford resident was intriguing to local media and medical professionals for the past decade as she inched her way, ever so calmly, to 110 ye
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Water deliveries begin at Crater Lake Water deliveries to Crater Lake started this week. The park needs more water until lines from a new well can be laid after the snow melts. [Photo by Lee Juillerat] Thursday May 18, 2017 at 5:07 PM May 18, 2017 at 5:07 PM By Lee Juillerat for the Mail Tribune Deliveries of water to Crater Lake National Park for use by visitors and park residents began Tuesday morning. Kirsten Hardin, the park's chief of facili
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'Seattle's son' Chris Cornell mourned in city Flowers sit on a bench at the Sound Garden sculpture, for which the band Soundgarden was named, in Seattle's Magnuson Park on Thursday in tribute to Chris Cornell. The sculpture features vertical, organ-like pipes that make sounds depending upon wind direction and speed, and overlooks Lake Washington. Cornell hanged himself Wednesday in a Detroit hotel room, according to the city's medical examiner. He was 52. [AP Photo/Elaine Thompson] Thursday May&
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97-unit residential care facility planned in Medford Donna and John Stinnett, residents of the Weatherly Inn in Medford, are greeted Thursday by owner Dustin Fields. Fields is planning to build a residential care facility called Weatherly Court behind the senior community. [Mail Tribune / Jamie Lusch] Thursday May 18, 2017 at 5:35 PM May 18, 2017 at 5:57 PM Greg Stiles Mail Tribune @GregMTBusiness The owners of Weatherly Inn, an independent livin
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Man allegedly posed as officer to scare possible school bully Leif Reed Johnson Thursday May 18, 2017 at 4:22 PM May 18, 2017 at 4:48 PM Nick Morgan Mail Tribune @mtcrimebeat A local businessman faces felony charges alleging he posed as a police detective in an apparent attempt to scare a possible school bully. Leif Reed Johnson, 45, of Central Point, entered not guilty pleas Thursday in Jackson County Circuit Court to two felony counts of crimin
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Organic farm submits weed control plan to tamp down outcry Thursday May 18, 2017 at 6:08 PM The Associated Press DUFUR — An Oregon organic farm has submitted a weed management plan before the issue heads to county court. The plan announced Wednesday by Azure Farms outlines actions to control noxious weeds. Neighboring farmers say the farm's weeds are spreading to their ground, the Capital Press reported. Azure's plan includes looking at heavy fertilization and dee
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Oregon governor forgives boy for swiping hazelnut, pen This photo provided by the Office of Oregon Gov. Kate Brown shows a portion of an apology letter from a fourth-grader to Gov. Brown, explaining that his class had toured the Capitol on a field trip in April 2017 and how he took a hazelnut and a pen from the Capitol Building. In a note replying to the letter, which included the pen in question and a $1 reimbursement for the hazelnut, Brown thanked the young man and wrote "I accept your apolog
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Trump claims 'witch hunt'; GOP puts hope in special counsel President Donald Trump walks down the steps of Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Md., Wednesday, May 17, 2017. Trump went to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., where he gave the commencement address. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Thursday May 18, 2017 at 8:21 AM May 18, 2017 at 1:04 PM President Donald Trump lashed out at the appointment of a special counsel to investigat
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Trump lashes out: abused by 'greatest witch hunt' President Donald Trump walks down the steps of Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Md., Wednesday, May 17, 2017. Trump went to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., where he gave the commencement address. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Thursday May 18, 2017 at 8:21 AM May 18, 2017 at 10:31 AM President Donald Trump lashed out at the appointment of a special counsel to investigate allegat