Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-03
Southern Oregon is being hard hit by warming temperatures that worsen wildfire risk and reduce snowpack, but local agriculture could benefit from longer growing seasons, according to a new climate change report. The Oregon Climate Change Research Institute at Oregon State University released its 2019 climate assessment Friday. The state Legislature has mandated the periodic reports. “Southwest Oregon is sort of a ground zero for a lot of this with the many recent years with poor snowpack a
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-03
NEW YORK (AP) — One of the book world’s greatest mysteries is finally ending: J.D. Salinger’s son says previously unpublished work by his late father will be coming out. In comments that appeared Friday in The Guardian, Matt Salinger confirmed longstanding reports that the author of “The Catcher in the Rye” had continued to write decades after he stopped publishing books. He said that he and Salinger’s widow, Colleen, are “going as fast as we freaking ca
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-03
KLAMATH FALLS — Phoenix overcame a sluggish, scoreless second quarter to defeat Siuslaw, 42-25, in the Skyline/Sky-Em Crossover Tournament Saturday at Mazama High. The Pirates (6-8) led 9-3 after one quarter but were tied 9-9 at halftime. “I basically told the girls (at halftime) that if you want to win the game, you’ve got to get some energy,” said Phoenix coach Chelsea Winner. “We came out and locked them down on defense and started running our offense with some p
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-03
Parker Perez and William Anderson each won two individual events to lead the North Medford boys swim team to victory in a three-team meet Saturday at the Medford YMCA, while South Medford’s Maryn Ringger and Reilly Eiynck earned two individual wins apiece to help the Panther girls prevail. North Medford’s boys team also won the 200 medley relay and triumphed in all but one race to win going away with 108 points over South Medford (86) and St. Mary’s (51). Perez finished first i
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-03
Zane Grey's one-room cabin on the Rogue River, where in the words of the famous novelist, "it flows through a lonely valley set down amid the lofty green mountain slopes," has been added to the National Register of Historic Places. The historic cabin is located at Winkle Bar, one of the most unique sites along the Wild and Scenic Rogue River. In 1925, Grey launched an expedition down the Rogue River from Grants Pass to Gold Beach with nine other adventurers in seven wooden boats. Of the places G
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-03
LOS ANGELES — The concept is simple: Make a modern, prefabricated home with the lowest environmental impact — and price — possible. It's called the C6, and it premiered in two locations this week: Palm Springs, Calif., where it was part of a Modernism Week prefab showcase that ended today, and the TED Conference in Long Beach, Calif., which ran through Friday. Starting at $179,000, the C6 prefab from Santa Monica, Calif.-based LivingHomes is half the price of the company's othe
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-03
A traveling exhibit exploring the way humans and animals make and interpret sound has found a permanent home in Ashland. "Wild Music: Sounds & Songs of Life" is ScienceWorks Hands-on Museum 's largest single exhibit ever, says Executive Director Dan Ruby. The installation, which opened Saturday, fills up the Ashland museum's entire main exhibit hall. “Wild Music” draws from equipment as varied as parabolic microphones, electrolarynxes and xylophones to demonstrate the different ways
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-03
Explore the secrets Jacksonville’s historic Beekman Bank when regional historian Ben Truwe leads 45-minute candlight tours at 6, 7, and 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Feb. 1-2, through the bank. Admission is $5. Tours are limited to a 12 people, and reservations are required. Visitors must bring flashlights. Email [email protected] or call 541-245-3650 for reservations. Pablo Estigarribia and Adrian Jost The duo performs tango for piano and bandoneón, from classics such as “
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-02
Karmen Mejia-Ford has an Eagle Point High School diploma, but she's not counted among the graduates. Instead, the Oregon Department of Education considers Mejia-Ford a dropout. Teachers, administrators, parents and students in Jackson County have had the past week to review the state's newest graduation and dropout rates . But hidden between the data points on graduates, completers and dropouts are stories like Mejia-Ford's -- of success delayed. A failed credit that Mejia-Ford didn’t make
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-02
Most people who testify at the Capitol bring slide presentations, graphs or official letterhead to make their point. State Rep. Karin Power, D-Milwaukie, brought a breast pump as she talked in support of her proposals to give women more latitude to be working mothers. Nursing mothers use the device, which resembles a handheld fan but with a suction cup where the blades would be, to pump and store breast milk when they can't directly feed their babies. Power wanted to show her colleagues why nurs
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-02
A pair of Democratic lawmakers in the Oregon Legislature want to divert the state's unique "kicker" tax rebate on a one-time basis to help tackle the state's public pension crisis. Oregon taxpayers are currently on track to receive $724 million worth of kicker rebates when they file their income taxes in 2020. Under a plan co-sponsored by Sen. Kathleen Taylor of Portland and Rep. Karin Power of Milwaukie, that money would instead go into an account created by Gov. Kate Brown to encourage local g
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-02
The Medford School District saw fewer empty desks in secondary schools last year after implementing an attendance initiative intended to reduce chronic absences. Students who missed more than 10 percent of the 175 days in the school year are considered chronically absent by the state. A study conducted by Oregon's Chief Education Office in 2016 points out that chronic absences could directly impact student outcomes and graduation rates. Medford secondary schools saw an overall increase in attend
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-02
A 52-year-old Medford man who lit a fire in his own shed during a standoff with police Friday has been apprehended on an arson charge connected to another fire on the same property. Detectives investigating a Jan. 31 garage fire in the 2500 block of Happy Valley Drive Friday found evidence that led them to an occupied steel shed on the property. The man threatened police and refused to come out, according to a Medford police release this morning. The shed was heavily fortified. SWAT, members of
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-02
Oregon's Office of Emergency Management has released a free online tool intended to be a one-stop shop for forecasts, current conditions and other weather-related information. The Oregon Weather Dashboard pulls information from the state's three National Weather Service offices in Medford, Portland and Pendleton, and an office in Boise, Idaho. It also adds the Twitter feeds for those four agencies. The dashboard can be found at https://arcg.is/1nzn811 . High and low temperatures, wind speeds, we
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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A Central Point church strongly condemns an overnight vandalism that left its message board with a racial slur. Gloria Dei Lutheran Church pastor Tom Arnold said he's "heartbroken" that a vandal would cut open the lock to its message sign overnight Thursday and rearrange plastic letters to spell out the N-word with a question mark. "That's not us — oh my heavens," Arnold said. Arnold called the vandalism "beyond the pale," and struggled to find words without using profanity to condemn the
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-02
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz may run as a third party in the 2020 Presidential race. Schultz has lost faith in the democratic party he's been part of his whole life. And while many democrats may agree, and a third of the country supports a third party, the two parties have rigged the system. As Larry Mendte observes, both major parties have done their part to keep two from three. Larry Mendte is a television, radio, online and print anchor and reporter and a multiple Emmy-award winning co
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-03
At the Lake of the Woods' Snowcapades, the adults actually give the kids matches. Don't worry: they're Cub Scouts, and there's a reason they're starting fires. WATCH: Watch part 1 here . Watch part 2 here .
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-01
Center for the Visual Arts: New student and community art exhibits will be displayed through Thursday, Feb. 21, in the Art and Marion Ady buildings, corner of Siskiyou Boulevard and Indiana Street, at Southern Oregon University in Ashland. Look for Emma Kincade’s thesis work “In the Grain” in the Retzlaff Gallery; Amelia Carley’s “Amble Elsewhere” in the Thorndike Gallery; Isabel Underwood’s paintings “Golden Delicacies” in the Meyer Memorial
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-01
OCEAN OUTLOOK COASTWIDE: A small-craft advisory is in effect through Sunday morning, so that is a quick no-go for ocean fishing. Friday calls for winds up to 25 knots and wind waves building to 8 feet. Saturday will see winds backing down to 10 knots but expect a 10-foot mixed swell. Sunday should see pretty much the same as Saturday. The marine aggregate rockfish daily limit for bottomfishers is five fish. Cabezon must be released unharmed. Rockfish angling is open beyond the 30-fathom line. A
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-01
Sunday in Atlanta, the Los Angeles Rams will face the New England Patriots to decide the National Football League title and be crowned world champions of American professional football. (It’s a small ‘world,’ after all.) Once the game is over, the winners will receive pre-made hats and T-shirts — and a hunk of glistening metal called the Lombardi Trophy. The pre-made celebratory hats and T-shirts depicting the non-winning team will find their way (and I’m not kiddin