Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-12
CHICAGO — A Cook County judge Monday morning overturned the drug convictions of 10 men who joined a growing list of people who in recent years have been exonerated after being framed by disgraced former Chicago police Sgt. Ronald Watts. One by one, nine of the men, all African-American, filed into Cook County Judge LeRoy Martin Jr.’s courtroom and stood before him as prosecutors filed a motion to vacate their convictions. The men had all served time in prison because of the false cha
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Salem resident Paula Pena often slips cash into her father's wallet when he's not looking. The money is to help pay rent on a duplex in Northeast Salem. After five years without an increase, her parents' rent nearly doubled from $500 to $975 over 18 months when a new owner bought the property. Pena said her parents, retired and living on a fixed income, couldn’t afford the new rent. Her parents are one example of hundreds of thousands of Oregon households affected by Oregon’s high co
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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With three schools that were built before the first moon landing, Central Point School District officials say it's time to do some upgrades on their aging facilities. "They're past their useful life in a lot of regards," said Spencer Davenport, the district's chief financial officer. "We're in dire need of upgrades." Jackson County’s second-largest school district is floating the idea of a 30-year, $77 million bond to replace dated electrical, HVAC and plumbing systems, update safety and s
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Many church parking lots in Medford soon will have permission to offer car camping for homeless people. The Medford City Council unanimously approved an ordinance Thursday allowing churches to request a free permit from the city to have up to three vehicles in their parking lots each night. “This is a step toward combating homelessness in the community,” said Councilor Eric Stark. Currently it is illegal to sleep in a vehicle overnight on the streets of Medford, though it is a common
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Worried about the dog days — and nights — of summer? Put your fears on ice. This season, companies are promoting products with cool new technology designed to help you beat the heat and conserve environmental resources. The innovations also can help you save some cold, hard cash. That's no small thing. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, Americans spend more than $22 billion a year and use more than 183 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity to cool their homes with air condit
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Steelhead collection didn’t quite go as planned Tuesday morning at Cole Rivers Hatchery along the upper Rogue River. First, the crowder that herds steelhead inside from the collection pond for sorting by technicians was frozen in place. After a short electrical glitch, the crowder finally pushed the steelhead into a coffin-like metal basket that creaked so loudly as it dropped fish onto a sorting bench that two technicians had to yell into each others' ears to be heard. The aches and pains
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Yet another storm front is expected to dump up to a foot of snow on Interstate 5's Siskiyou Summit and up to 2 feet at Diamond Lake beginning Tuesday while bringing heavy rains and winds to the Rogue Valley, authorities said. The National Weather Service forecasts that the snow level will fluctuate today through Wednesday morning between 2,500 feet above sea level to 3,500 feet, leaving heavy snowfalls in higher mountain areas but no snow forecast for I-5 passes north of Medford. However, those
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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The first of three new winter storm fronts is expected to move through Southern Oregon Tuesday afternoon, bringing a dusting of snow that could lead to a slow and slippery morning commute Wednesday, authorities said. With overnight temperatures in the high 20s, the cold and quick-moving storm will come out of the Northwest and reach the Rogue Valley sometime in late afternoon or evening, bringing as much as an inch of snow in Medford by the time it moves south Wednesday morning, according to the
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Caregivers can learn how to care for themselves and be more effective during the free workshop "Powerful Tools for Caregivers." The workshop is from 1:30 to 3 p.m. on Thursdays from Feb. 28 through April 4 in Medford. For more details and to register, call 541-618-7865. Caregivers will learn how to reduce personal stress and feelings of guilt, anger and depression. They will learn relaxation techniques and ways to take care of themselves. The workshop also covers making tough decisions, setting
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-10
TRAIL — With lunch freshly out of the oven and cooling, Jeremy Smith drags his 3-year-old daughter Evangeline in her high chair closer to the kitchen table. Smith takes a bite of the meat, then serves his wife, Georgia, a plateful before cutting little pieces for Evangeline, who chews them one piece at a time. Evangeline wants a hamburger. Instead, she’s getting a piece of road-killed deer. “It’s way better than the first time I cooked it,” Georgia Smith says. &ldqu
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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SEATTLE (AP) — Residents of the Pacific Northwest took to neighborhood hills with skis, sleds or even just laundry baskets Saturday to celebrate an unusual dump of snow in a region more accustomed to winter rain. Some areas received more than a foot of snow, and meteorologists say more is on the way early next week. Hundreds of flights were canceled in Seattle and Portland, and heavy snow drifts closed major highways in eastern Washington. Around 50,000 people lost power. Residents cleared
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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The Hemp and Cannabis Fair playing this weekend at the Expo saw a 20 percent drop in vendors compared to its last appearance here in September 2018 , but plenty of new products are on display at the event to pique the interest of cannabis growers, sellers and consumers. CBD lotions, balms and elixirs for seemingly every purpose are on display at virtually every other booth Saturday. CBD, the acronym for cannabidiol, is a non-psychoactive component of both hemp and marijuana that is being touted
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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I am an early riser — always have been. It may be the farm girl in me. No chickens to feed or cows to milk, but there is this dog of ours who wants to go outside to pee about 5 a.m. When she comes back inside, she splays herself on her back, feet in the air and I, admittedly, give her a reinforcing tummy rub. By that time we are both open-eyed about the day ahead. I have shaped her waking/sleeping patterns and she has shaped mine. But “early” keeps getting earlier, and I am
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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A licensed marijuana grower who endured a violent home-invasion robbery has filed a civil suit against the men involved in the brutal attack. James Bowman, who was severely injured by eight men wearing Ninja Turtles masks who stormed his home and loaded a U-Haul with Bowman’s crop in December 2016, has filed a lawsuit against the men, all of whom have either been charged or convicted in the crime. The lawsuit filed in Jackson County Circuit Court seeks $17 million against eight named defen
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Medford woke up to snow Sunday morning, but it will vanish over the next few days with rain and a warmer front pushing into the Rogue Valley. “We might see some snow tonight, but it will be less than what we saw last night,” said Misty Firmin, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Medford, on Sunday. More snow is not expected until the end of the week, though nighttime temperatures are expected to hover around freezing, so roads could be icy. Be prepared for rain for Mon
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-09
The movie ‘Roma’ isn’t as good as you’ve heard — it’s even better. ‘Roma,” a masterful drama by Alfonso Cuarón, is many things at once: epic and intimate, mythic and mundane. Based on Cuarón’s memories of growing up in a bourgeois Mexico City household in the 1970s, this tone-poem to his youth is shot through with vivid sensory cues that pulse with equal parts delight, sensuality and sadness. Shot by Cuarón himself in widescreen black-and-whi
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Collaborative Theatre Project: 555 Medford Center, Medford. Tickets and information are available at ctpmedford.org, by calling 541-779-1055 or at the box office. Group rates are available. ‘The Glass Menagerie’: Tennessee Williams’ portrait of a fragile young woman, her domineering mother and the brother who is a frustrated, aspiring poet is the memory play that made Williams famous. Lisa-Marie Newton plays Amanda Wingfield, an aging Southern belle who regales her children wit
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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The years have been hard on Africatown USA. Established by the last boatload of Africans abducted into slavery and shipped to the United States just before the Civil War, the coastal Alabama community now shows scarcely a trace of its founders. Industrial development choked off access to the Mobile River and Chickasaw Creek, where generations caught crabs and fish. Factories now occupy land that once held modest homes surrounded by gardens, fruit trees and clucking chickens. The population has p
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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WASHINGTON — It's 10:45 p.m. and the light is still on in your teenager's bedroom. Your child is not the slightest bit tired — but you know that waking him or her early for school the next morning will be torture. It may be tempting to blame this behavior on computers, cell phones and coffee. And, in some cases, those are the prime reasons for nocturnal teen behavior. But, researchers say, this late-to-bed and late-to-rise pattern is the way teenagers are biologically programmed R
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-09
The Central Point man who spent a night out in the wilderness near Prospect after crashing an experimental plane had no pilot's license, according to new information from the National Transportation Safety Board. Steven Paul Dawson Jr., 34, told Jackson County sheriff's deputies and first-responders that he bought the kit-built Whittman Tailwind plane the week before he crashed it and had only finished building it a day before the Jan. 28 takeoff, according to a preliminary accident report issue