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Pep Fujas has spent half of his life flying through the air, performing twists and back flips above powder snow in mountains around the world for extreme skiing videos. The 34-year-old developed his skills at an early age starting near and at Mount Ashland. Fujas has been in more than 20 feature-length ski films, made countless other videos, competed in X-Games competitions, terrain parks and half-pipe events, and has sponsorship from ski and outdoor clothing firms. He’s skied hundreds of
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Developers of a controversial project in Bend want to build an apartment complex on the empty concrete slab surrounding the Evergreen parking garage, formerly known as the Bella Vita. The Medford City Council will consider a resolution today allowing negotiations with Kuratek Holzman LLC to build a $5 million to $7 million structure abutting the parking garage and featuring 75 to 80 apartment units and commercial or office space. The apartments would be rented at the prevailing market rate, said
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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By huge margins Congress voted Tuesday to protect one of the last and largest old-growth forests in Southern Oregon’s Coast Range, as well as hundreds of miles of wild and scenic rivers, including 140 miles of Rogue River tributaries. The legislation, fought for by environmental groups, outdoor businesses and elected officials for more than a decade, passed the House 363-62, with U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Hood River, voting aye. It passed the Senate earlier in February with only eight disse
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Aformer Applegate Valley vintner and a Medford salon technician learned Wednesday that the cost of allegedly having oral sex in their seats in front of other passengers on a commercial airline flight from Medford to Las Vegas in June is $250. But to former Troon vintner Christopher Martin, his plea to a federal misdemeanor in the case that garnered international attention has cost him much more than that. "I have made many mistakes in my life, none greater than this one," Martin said in a writte
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Some more wet -- and possibly snowy -- weather is in the forecast for the Rogue Valley for Wednesday through later this week, but it won't have nearly the impact of Tuesday's snow or the heralding rain from the day before. That weather will be at the hands of another system coming in from the northwest on Friday, which could trigger some showers and lower snow levels, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Marc Spilde. "The snow level looks to be in the 1,500 to 2,500-foot range wit
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The Coquille Indian Tribe announced this week it is donating $44,000 to Jackson County organizations that benefit families and homeless people. The grants will be awarded Friday along with 43 other grants for programs in Coos, Curry, Douglas and Lane counties. The Coquille Tribal Community Fund grants in all counties total $266,000, tribal officials said. The Jackson County grants are: $10,000 to La Clinica del Valle for its mobile clinic-on-wheels. The mobile clinic focuses on public housing re
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September 20, 1924 - January 7, 2018 Betty Lou Cunningham passed away January 7, 2018 in Prescott, Arizona. She was born September 20, 1924 in Westville, Oklahoma. She is survived by her sons, Curtis and Jerry. She was preceded in death by her husband, Bill and son, Michael. There will be a memorial service from 11 a.m.-2 p.m on Saturday, March 3, 2018 at Hampton Inn, 1122 Morrow Rd., Medford, OR 97504.
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Dennis Richardson, Oregon secretary of state and former candidate for governor, died at his Central Point home Tuesday night, his office announced Wednesday. He has been fighting brain cancer for months. "Dennis passed away at his home surrounded by family and friends," according to a statement from Leslie Cummings, deputy secretary of state. "If you spent time with Dennis, it wouldn’t be long before he shared with you his personal motto of “Pro Tanto Quid Retribuamus,” which m
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Shaking off criticism from House Republicans, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer declared under oath Wednesday that Trump knew ahead of time and embraced the news when told that WikiLeaks had emails damaging to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. Michael Cohen also testified that Trump is a "racist," a "conman" and a "cheat." Cohen, called to testify by Democrats over the objections of Republicans, suggested that Trump also implicitly told him to lie abo
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Eighth-grader Griffin Waymire, 13, who has attended the John Muir School since kindergarten, said he loves how much time he and his classmates spend outdoors, especially their frequent backpacking trips. “It’s about the experience,” Griffin said. “There are trips more focused on the academics and then trips focused on the experience.” He said his favorite trek was a weeklong expedition to visit the redwoods when he was in fifth grade. Students finish preparations at
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Two new cases of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, have been reported in the Ashland School District, and 15 “under-vaccinated” students exposed to the highly contagious respiratory disease are being held out of school for 21 days, Jackson County Medical Director Dr. Jim Shames announced Tuesday. Sharing a podium with Ashland Director of Student Services Samuel Bogdanove in the Orchard Room of the Jackson County Health and Human Services building, Shames said the most recent
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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The Oregon Chocolate Festival has been a staple winter attraction for Rogue Valley natives and visitors since 2005. The brainchild of Karolina Lavagnino, Neuman Hotel Group director of sales and marketing, the festival was designed as a destination event to boost off-season sales. “It was all about filling the Ashland Springs Hotel and generating food and beverage revenue,” Lavagnino says. “Chocolate is loved by young and old, by men and women, so I thought, let’s try tha
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Vaccines are in the news again in the wake of an outbreak of measles in Washington and, now, Oregon. The number of cases of measles was up to 70 over the weekend, five of them in Oregon. Most of those infected are children, and the vast majority were unvaccinated. Measles can cause serious side effects, including blindness, brain damage and even death. Two bills introduced in the Legislature relate to vaccines required for school attendance. One would remove non-medical exemptions for children i
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Late winter snow has closed or delayed schools and government offices around the region. Students in the Rogue River, Central Point, Eagle Point, and Grants Pass school districts have a snow day. Prospect and Butte Falls Charter School students will join them. The Medford School District is on a two-hour delay. Logos Charter School, St. Mary's, Sacred Heart and Rogue Valley Adventist Academy are, too. Buses for the Phoenix-Talent School District will run on snow routes, but the school will have
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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On Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Natural Resources Management Act, which includes protections for public lands and rivers here in Oregon. As an outfitter on the Rogue and Chetco Rivers I am particularly appreciative of the additional protections these rivers will receive once President Trump signs this legislation. The bipartisan Natural Resources Management Act, which the Senate overwhelmingly passed earlier this month, protects approximately 1.4 million acres of new wil
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A massive slide that closed Highway 101 Monday 12 miles north of Brookings is moving at a rate of nearly 2 feet an hour, Oregon Department of Transportation officials say. Until the Hooskanadan slide stops moving, work cannot begin to repair it, they said. The stretch of roadway that has split and buckled measures between .75 and .8 of a mile, ODOT said. Traffic is being detoured to Carpenterville Highway, a narrow, winding road with gravel areas, steep grades and an elevation change of 1,700 fe
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CENTRAL POINT — After Andy Monroe heard doctors tell him he wasn’t supposed to run cross country this year, the Crater High senior decided he couldn’t accept their advice. “I didn’t want to ruin my cross country season like that,” Monroe said. “So I’m just kind of in a positive mindset — however it goes, I’m just happy to be out here running again.” There was plenty for Monroe to be happy about Wednesday at Jackson Coun
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RUCH — The Applegate Valley reverberates with memories for Malcolm Rowden. It was where his father took him hunting and his mother worked on a turkey ranch. It was also where he last laid eyes on two of his brothers, James and John, Marines who died two years apart in Vietnam. Both made the ultimate sacrifice for their country in a part of the world they knew little about while growing up. Southeast Asia was a distant corner of the globe with little meaning for youngsters hunting and fish
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Twenty firefighters from Ashland, Medford, two Jackson County fire districts and the Illinois Valley rolled out of Phoenix Wednesday at noon in five fire trucks, headed for the Northern California wine country to battle giant conflagrations that have killed at least 18 and incinerated some 3,500 structures. The team expected to start work soon after their arrival Wednesday evening. The team is headed to the Sonoma area, near two big fire complexes. The biggest one, the Atlas Peak fire at 42,000