Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2021-03-30
Providence funds COVID-19 outreach, housing Updated: Mar 30, 2021 05:03 PM A A Providence Health and Services, which includes Providence Medford Medical Center, has made donations to help with COVID-19 outreach and housing. Providence Health and Services is providing funding to boost COVID-19 outreach to Latino people and help those facing homelessness due to last year’s wildfires. Providence gave $175,000 to Latino advocacy groups to improve COVID-19 education, testing and vaccination efforts.
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2021-03-31
Man seriously injured after being hit by vehicle in southwest Medford Updated: Mar 31, 2021 09:44 AM A A Misc. Emergency A man was seriously injured and transported to the hospital after being struck by a vehicle Wednesday morning in southwest Medford, police confirmed. Police and emergency workers responded to the crash at 6:42 a.m on Garfield Street near the Holly Street intersection, according to emergency dispatch logs. The man was struck by a 2016 Dodge Ram pickup as it traveled eastbound o
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Medford City Council eyes Greenway camping ban By Damian Mann Updated: Mar 30, 2021 12:24 PM A A Andy Atkinson / Mail TribuneHomeless camp along the Bear Creek Greenway could be banned during fire season in Medford. Andy Atkinson / Mail TribuneHomeless camp along the Bear Creek Greenway could be banned during fire season in Medford. Medford wants to prevent campfires during fire season Medford City Council signaled Thursday that it believes camping on the Bear Creek Greenway during the summer mo
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Crater High senior named Pear Blossom queen By Joe Zavala Updated: Mar 30, 2021 05:29 PM A A A senior from Crater High School was named the 2021 Pear Blossom Festival queen at the 30th annual Pear Blossom Scholarship Competition Friday at First Baptist Church. Jaidyn Campbell, who attends the Crater School of Business, Innovation, and Science , was selected the winner of a $2,750 college scholarship from a pool of nine contestants from high schools throughout the Rogue Valley. The girls were jud
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Local authors named OBA finalists By Joe Zavala Updated: Mar 30, 2021 02:21 PM A A 3 View all photos Edwin Battistella Melissa Matthewson Anna Elkins Oregon Book Award honorees include SOU professors Three Southern Oregon authors were named Oregon Book Awards finalists Monday, including two Southern Oregon University professors. Winners in each of the seven categories will be announced during an episode of “The Archive Project,” May 2 on OPB Radio. Winners receive a $1,000 cash award. Edwin Batt
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· snapshot 2021-03-30
Internet outages caused issues at Medford NWS office By Ryan Pfeil Updated: Mar 30, 2021 02:07 PM A A A host of problems affecting the National Weather Service communications network and internet services Tuesday impacted local offices across the U.S., including Medford, Weather Service officials said. The Weather Service central office in Silver Spring, Maryland, tweeted out a statement about the problems at 7:29 a.m. Tuesday. “The National Weather Service is experiencing intermittent communica
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· snapshot 2021-03-30
Crews knock down house fire in White City By Ryan Pfeil Updated: Mar 30, 2021 02:04 PM A A A fire damaged the porch, eaves and part of the interior of a manufactured home Tuesday in White City, but the two residents were able to make it out OK, fire officials said. The fire occurred at a home in Suncrest Mobile Estates in the 3700 block of Avenue G, said Jackson County Fire District No. 3 Battalion Chief Will Clelland. A woman living at the home spotted the flames, Clelland said. She noticed a h
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· snapshot 2021-03-30
Podcast: Carrot cake lovers should try this By Sarah Lemon Updated: Mar 30, 2021 09:21 AM A A Like carrot cake? Try parsnip cake with apples and cream cheese frosting, from the blog of Southern Oregon food writer Sarah Lemon, for Easter and other special occasions. Mail Tribune · The Whole Dish Episode 148
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· snapshot 2021-03-30
JP The Dog Guy: Bear Needs A Home Pt. 2 Mar 30, 2021 08:00 AM A A Sandy introduces JP to Bear and explains what kind of troubles Bear’s had in the past adjusting to new people. The Canine Club does it’s best but sometimes a dog’s anxiety can still get the better of them. Luckily JP knows just what to do.
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2021-02-13
More than 6,200 complete vaccinations at Expo clinic Feb 13, 2021 05:31 PM A A Jackson County health and hospital officials acknowledged many locals’ frustrations accessing their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and said improved access and transparency is in the works. At a Saturday morning press conference announcing that more than 6,200 locals had received their second dose of the Pfizer vaccine at the drive-thru clinic , Tanya Phillips, health promotion manager for Jackson County Health an
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· snapshot 2021-03-29
Talent adapts to higher demand for building permits By Tony Boom Mar 29, 2021 12:15 AM A A Andy Atkinson / Mail TribuneReconstruction is underway at a Talent apartment complex. Applications for single-family residential building permits in Talent have averaged 50 per month so far this year as homeowners rebuild from the Sept. 8 Almeda fire. Last year, Talent’s Community Development Department saw an average of three applications per month. To meet the demand the city has increased staff in the d
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· snapshot 2021-03-29
The last Civil War nurse By Bill Miller Mar 29, 2021 12:00 AM A A Ten-year-old Susan Haines lifted a ladle of water to the lips of a dying soldier. Even on tiptoes she barely reached the upper bunk. Just a few months before, she and that soldier were classmates in a one-room schoolhouse near Bethlehem, Indiana. When the Civil War erupted in 1861, the teenage soldier who had enlisted for 100 days was wounded while serving with Grant along the Mississippi River. Not yet a teenager, Susan was alrea
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· snapshot 2021-03-26
Fire in the sky By Ryan Pfeil Updated: Mar 26, 2021 08:46 PM A A Grace Vinyard, 14, captured this image that likely showed debris from a Space X rocket burning up in the atmosphere Thursday. Submitted photo. Rogue Valley residents report seeing bright light show Thursday night that looked like a meteor, but was likely debris from a SpaceX rocket Tenasi Rama Lazar thought the commotion outside his home at about 9 p.m. Thursday stemmed from something else at first. A coyote, maybe. Something on th
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· snapshot 2021-03-28
Band of brothers around a bond fire Mar 28, 2021 12:00 AM A A In June 1957, two weeks prior to high school graduation, my group of buddies were looking at the potential loss of our brotherhood. We gathered and formally adopted a name and a written document binding us together forever. What some would dismiss as foolish teenage-boy nonsense turned into a lifelong brotherhood that nothing could destroy. Time has thinned our ranks, as we have said our final goodbye to three of the eight. As of this
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Carrot cake perfect for Easter By Sarah Lemon Updated: Mar 29, 2021 09:31 AM A A A homemade, vegetarian carrot cake made with cinnamon, pecans, all-purpose flour, buttermilk, coarsely shredded carrots and topped with a cream cheese frosting, Wednesday, April 10, 2019, in Ben Avon. (Jessie Wardarski/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/TNS) “Rabbit food” doesn’t excite me all that much — unless we’re talking carrot cake. This longtime birthday favorite also is perfect for Easter, particularly on years when my
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Tire store planned for Hometown Buffet site By Buffy Pollock Mar 29, 2021 02:00 AM A A file photo The former Hometown Buffet could be a future Discount Tire store. Plans are underway for the region’s second Discount Tire store to be built at the corner of East Barnett and East Stewart roads, on the site of the old Hometown Buffet restaurant. Medford officials confirmed that an application received last week from Discount Tire will be reviewed April 2 by the Site Plan and Architectural Commission
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-22
I had this vision: What if I layered my chocolate truffle sauce over a rich and buttery hazelnut crust, then smeared on an extra chocolate glaze? How would that turn out, I wondered? Well, the answer came at the end of a very long day. And even though by the time I finished making this masterpiece it was 11 p.m. on a weeknight, my sweetie and I dove in. “Wowie!” we said. My first run-through had involved an 8-inch square pan, because I thought I was aiming for a bar-cookie sort of cr
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· snapshot 2019-02-22
By the Republican response to the three most-famous Democratic freshmen in Congress — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (or AOC) of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan — you’d think these women were Shakespeare’s Three Witches rather than the three amigas seen chumming and laughing in countless photographs. But then, you’d also infer from Democrats’ counter-response that the GOP’s reaction has been solely an expression of racism, misog
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· snapshot 2019-02-22
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — America’s most improbably popular governor, a Republican beginning his second term in perhaps the bluest state, resembles a beer keg with an attitude. Stocky and blunt, Larry Hogan, whose job approval is in the high 70s, has won twice in the state with the highest percentage of African-Americans of any state outside the Deep South. In 2016, Maryland voted more emphatically for Hillary Clinton — by 26 percentage points — than all but three other states. In
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· snapshot 2019-02-22
NEW YORK (AP) — Protesters around the U.S. spent Presidents Day rallying against President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration as at least a dozen states planned a lawsuit to block Trump's latest ploy to fund his long-promised border wall. "Trump is the national emergency!" chanted a group of hundreds lined up Monday at the White House fence while Trump was out of town in Florida. Some held up large letters spelling out "stop power grab." In downtown Fort Worth, Texas, a small gr