Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-02
Most Americans live in states where marijuana is legal, either for recreational use or only for medical purposes. Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden is refreshingly candid about whether Congress will eventually follow the lead of those 33 states. “It is just a matter of time of time before we get this passed,” he told the Register-Guard editorial board in a far-ranging discussion last week. “It’s not a question of ‘if’ but ‘when?’” The problem is that &ld
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Discounted rush tickets to 17 select Oregon Shakespeare Festival plays in March will be offered to patrons who donate food or cash to the nonprofit organizations ACCESS and the Ashland Emergency Food Bank. The rush ticket price is $10, and patrons must donate at least one nonperishable food item or cash donation. Rush tickets are available two hours before the show -- 11:30 a.m. for matinées and 6 p.m. for evening performances. The tickets are sold at the OSF box office ticket windows, 15 S. Pio
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Friday, March 1 Center for the Visual Arts: New student and community art exhibits will be displayed through Friday, March 22, in the Art and Marion Ady buildings, corner of Siskiyou Boulevard and Indiana Street, at Southern Oregon University in Ashland. Look for Justin Berry’s work “Still Lives” in the Retzlaff Gallery; a group exhibition by the Women’s Resource Center, “Herstory” in the Thorndike Gallery; Clee Ferris, Paige Gerhard and Anna McGrath’s g
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Ashland Children’s Theatre: See ashlandchildrenstheatre.com or call 541-414-8676 or 541-301-4549 for information. ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’: In this renowned comic play, adapted by William Ritch, the world of humans and fairies collide, love is lost and found, and found again. The play is introduced with a charming prequel, ‘Fairy Revels’, set in a fairy-filled world, where sprites rehearse a play, “Romano & Asiago,” for their king and queen. Per
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Friday, March 1 Not Too Shabby: Singer Lisa Yriarte, guitarist Pete Brown and drummer Mike Fitch will play a mix of pop, blues, R&B and contemporary hits at 5:30 p.m. Friday, March 1, at Belle Fiore Winery, 100 Belle Fiore Lane, Ashland. Admission is free. See bellefiorewine.com or call 541-552-4900. Mark and Scott Johnson: Talented brother duo, Mark and Scott Johnson, will play at 6 p.m. Friday, March 1, at South Stage Cellars, 125 S. Third St., Jacksonville. See southstagecellars.com or call 5
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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‘How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World’ 3 1/2 stars out of 4 Cast: Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, F. Murray Abraham, Cate Blanchett, Jonah Hill, Kristen Wiig Director: Dean DeBlois Run time: 1 hour, 44 minutes Rating: PG for adventure action and some mild rude humor Writer and director Dean DeBlois skillfully brings the beloved and much-lauded “How to Train Your Dragon” franchise in for a landing with the third film in the series, “How To Train Your Dragon: The
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. WHY DID IT SUDDENLY END? President Donald Trump said he walked away from his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un because Kim demanded the U.S. lift all of its sanctions, a claim that North Korea’s delegation called a rare news conference in the middle of the night to deny. 2. DEMOCRATS DIGGING DEEPER After three days of grilling Michael Cohen, President Trump’s fo
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Ford made visit during '76 election I have a photo of President Gerald Ford visiting Medford. He spoke at Medford's Library Park. When was he here? What was the reason for the visit? What other presidents visited Medford? ' Larry S., Jacksonville President Gerald R. Ford visited Medford on May 22, 1976, Larry, and did indeed speak at Library Park. Air Force One landed at 11 a.m., and Ford spent about 45 minutes touring Medford Corporation's plywood plant. His motorcade went down Interstate 5 to
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Insider podcast host Ryan Pfeil speaks to Mail Tribune crime reporter Nick Morgan about his story "They said 'yes' to the dress...but got nothing," which tells the story of a new bridal shop in town and the problems that followed its owners from Arizona. Read Nick's story here . Listen to other Insider episodes here . Reach reporter Ryan Pfeil at [email protected] or 541-776-4468.
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-05
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon man who was rescued after five days stuck in deep snow with his dog is deeply grateful to his rescuers and embarrassed to have caused so much trouble, his aunt told The Associated Press on Monday. Jeremy Taylor's 4-wheel-drive vehicle got stuck Feb. 24 in snow on a U.S. Forest Service road as he headed to do some off-road driving in the wilderness outside the central Oregon city of Bend. As night fell, Taylor, 36, decided to sleep in his car with his Austral
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Mt. Ashland officials have packed "March Maddness" with family-friendly events to wrap up the ski season. There's still more snow in the forecast, and the mountain's tentative closure date is Saturday, April 7, General Manager Hiram Towle said said, but there might be some bonus days tacked onto the end. "People need to get up here and get the snow while it’s great," Towle said. "Before you know it, you’ll be mowing your lawn." He said the mountain will be open and a shuttle bus will
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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PORTLAND — The final defendant has been sentenced in an extraordinary con that defrauded the heir to an Oregon timber fortune of $15 million. Blancey Lee, 40, was the boyfriend of the psychic who masterminded the complex, decade-long scheme that included phony accents, personas, marriages and children. Though Blancey Lee didn't devise the plot to steal from Ralph Raines Jr., he lavishly spent the ill-gotten gains on items such as Bentley and Ferrari cars, purchased on the same day with th
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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A convicted serial pedophile filed an appeal on the multiple life sentences handed down by a Jackson County Circuit Court judge months before the Oregon Supreme Court sanctioned the judge over comments he made at the man's sentencing, court records show. In October 2011, a jury found Richard Lee Taylor, 60, of Medford, guilty of five counts each of using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct, first-degree sexual abuse and second-degree sodomy; and three counts each of first- and seco
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Kirby Lee Barker, of Medford, also is awaiting sentencing on a robbery and kidnapping case A Medford mortgage broker will spend more than seven years in federal prison after pleading guilty to drug and firearm charges. Kirby Lee Barker, 45, of the 3300 block of Ford Drive, will remain in the Jackson County Jail awaiting his sentence in an unrelated robbery and kidnapping case. Once he is sentenced in the state case, Barker will be taken to serve his federal prison term first, said Scott McLean o
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Ashland scored twice in the first 12 minutes en route to another lopsided Midwestern League boys soccer victory, 7-0, at Walter A. Phillips Field Friday. Jade Boucher had a goal and an assist and six different Grizzlies scored in the first 54 minutes as Ashland earned its fourth consecutive victory to take over sole possession of first place in the MWL with two games left on its regular-season schedule. Ashland co-head coach Brad Roupp said the Grizzlies’ aggressive, free-flowing style is
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Luke Perry, star of "Beverly Hills, 90210" and "Riverdale," died Monday after suffering a massive stroke, his rep said. He was 52. Perry was surrounded by his children, Jack and Sophie, fiancee Wendy Madison Bauer, ex-wife Minnie Sharp, mother Ann Bennett, step-father Steve Bennett, brother Tom Perry, sister Amy Coder and other close family and friends in Los Angeles. "The family appreciates the outpouring of support and prayers that have been extended to Luke from around the world, and respectf
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Pacific Power has restored power to most of the Douglas County customers affected by last week’s massive snowstorm. On Monday morning, 364 customers remained without power. More than 31,000 customers across the county had no electricity last Monday, with more farther north. “Approximately 42,000 Pacific Power customers from Corvallis to Roseburg were left without power after winter weather dumped heavy snow on the region, which made many roads impassable and brought down trees, damag
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April 26, 1931 - October 5, 2017 Joe Leland Strickling, a brother, a father, and a grandfather, passed peacefully from this world to the next October 5, 2017. He was 86. He was born April 26, 1931, in Roseburg, Oregon. Joe spent the first 31 years of his life in the Roseburg area. His family consisted of his father, Homer Leland; his mother, Helen Louise; his younger brother, Ronald Dale; and a younger sister, Linda Louise. At Roseburg High School, Joe met Betty Stidham, of Melrose, in a typing
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Medford School District officials are seeking community input as they kick off a search for a new superintendent. "We are trying to reach as many different people as we can to get input from everybody," said Cynthia Wright, chair of the Medford School Board. The board will hear from a variety of stakeholders Thursday regarding the superintendent decision, ranging from leaders in the business community to heads of partner nonprofits to union leaders and others. A forum will be held in the school
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-03
Researchers in the Galapagos Islands last month discovered, alive, a giant tortoise of a species long feared to be extinct. The return of the Fernandina Giant Tortoise, last seen in 1906, gives hope that another species, also thought extinct, might yet reemerge. I speak, of course, of the Principled Republican. The last sighting in the wild of this noble breed was in 2016. Hopes were kindled Thursday when Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., voicing concern about the “dangerous precedent”