Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-01
During a year-long refurbishment of downtown Central Point, completed late last year, East Pine Street was torn up to add new drainage pipes and repaved. Afterward, decorative planters and planting beds were added along the sidewalks and filled with colorful perennials. During the summer months, large hanging baskets of multi-colored flowers hung from decorative light posts lining the street, giving the street an Old World flavor. Many of the street’s businesses joined in redecorating and
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-01
To have an event listed in Get Out!, email the information to [email protected]. Project FeederWatch Saturday, Feb. 2: Help experts count birds that visit feeders at North Mountain Park Nature Center, 620 N. Mountain Ave., Ashland, from 9 to 10 a.m. Results will be submitted to Cornell University’s FeederWatch program. Admission is free. Call 541-488-6606. Rogue Valley Walkers Saturday, Feb. 2: The Rogue Valley Walkers will hold a 10K walk in Central Point. Meet at 9:45 a.m. in th
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-01
If you have been reluctant to watch the “Star Wars” spin-off film “Solo,” directed by Ron Howard, because you felt let down by the feel and direction of the series since the original three movies, worry no more and give it a try. Thanks to Netflix, you can watch the film from your cozy couch and enjoy it with the family. For those of us who grew up with the original “Star Wars” movies, it was the beginning of an era. Each release was an event like no other. Sc
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-01
Kai McIntyre sat atop the steep icy chute channeling his inner Clark Griswold with nothing but a cracked plastic saucer between him and a snowy wipeout. He pushed off and sent his 8-year-old body careening down the run through banked turns before his fate was sealed. The spinning saucer hurtled through a turn and over the scrambling arms of an older Boy Scout trying in vain to keep the Cub Scout on course. But what appears as a crash is actually high entertainment. “When I went on the side
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-01
Sport and commercial crabbing are now open along the entire Oregon Coast after tests showed levels of the biotoxin domoic acid have dropped to acceptable levels in Dungeness crab. Tests on Dungeness south of Port Orford showed low enough levels of domoic acid to allow sport and commercial crabbers along the South Coast to join the rest of Oregon crabbers. Now the ocean, bays and estuaries are all open for sport crabbers in Oregon. The region was set to open Friday for commercial crabbers but und
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-01
A divided Medford City Council selected local lawyer Eric Stark on Thursday night as councilor for Ward 4, a position formerly held by Kim Wallan. “I’m honored by their confidence in me,” the 52-year-old Stark said. The council cast four votes for Stark and three for Jessica Gomez, who ran an unsuccessful bid for the state Senate District 3 seat. Ward 4 is located in southeast Medford. Gomez was actually the preferred candidate of a five-member Ward 4 committee chosen by the co
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-07
“Work leads to wealth. Wretched poets, let us work on! The caterpillar, by working incessantly, becomes the rich butterfly.” — English translation of “La Chenille” in Guillaume Apollinaire’s “Le Bestiaire,” 1911 French poet Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) received a set of woodcut animals from his friend Picasso in 1906, and the gift inspired him to write 30 short poems in the style of a bestiary. This type of literature was popular in the Middle
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-07
The last thing Christine Diaz-Kuehu remembers on April 9 is leaving a dinner date with her boyfriend and heading south through Ashland. Her next memory is waking up in the intensive care unit at Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center in Medford, her eyes swollen shut. Diaz-Kuehu, 36, was the passenger in a 2000 Mercedes SUV driven by Salvatore "Sal" Pippa III, when the couple's vehicle sped through a left-hand turn on Ashland Street, hit a power pole and smashed into the building that houses Papa
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-07
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs "remain intact" and its leaders are dispersing missile assembly and testing facilities to prevent "decapitation" strikes, U.N. experts said in a new report. The experts' report to the Security Council, seen Tuesday by The Associated Press, says the country continues to defy U.N. economic sanctions, including through "a massive increase in illegal ship-to-ship transfers of petroleum products and coal." The Democratic
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-07
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Christianity is virtually outlawed in North Korea, where dictator Kim Jong Un is the subject of a personality cult that treats him like a god. The possession of Bibles, open religious services and any attempt to build underground church networks could mean torture, lengthy prison terms or execution. The following is what North Korean defectors, a Christian activist and a South Korean Catholic bishop with previous links to the North told The Associated Press about
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-07
“Light-winged smoke, Icarian bird ... by night star-veiling, and by day darkening the light and blotting out the sun…” — Henry David Thoreau, "Smoke," 1843 The hazy smoke from Canyonville and Northern California wildfires has seemed anything but light-winged these past several days, instead lingering over the valley and creating unhealthful breathing conditions for everyone, including gardeners. We have the option of staying indoors, but how are our outdoor plants far
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-07
Railing against "fake news" and sparring with media outlets is something we've come to expect from President Donald Trump. But now French President Emmanuel Macron has called for legislation in France that would empower judges to take down internet content they deemed false and block access to websites — just during election campaigns, mind you. In Germany, a law aimed at curbing hate speech on social media took effect Jan. 1, the Czech Republic has established an anti-fake news task forc
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-07
The former Central Point police lieutenant who founded and headed the Southern Oregon High-Tech Crimes Task Force faces official misconduct and computer-crime charges alleging he knowingly altered or damaged a police computer or software in 2012. Josh Moulin was arraigned on one felony and one misdemeanor computer crime charge and a misdemeanor charge of official misconduct Friday in Jackson County Circuit Court. Moulin told the Mail Tribune he believes the charges swirl around the way he return
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-07
Felony arrests Theft Conspiracy — Michelle Tawny Lorraine Ray, 38, of the 1100 block of Gatepark Drive, Central Point. Ashland police arrested Ray Wednesday on felony charges of conspiring to commit first-degree theft, second-degree burglary and two counts of first-degree theft. She remained held in the Jackson County Jail Thursday on $30,000 bail. Criminal Mischief — Wade Monroe Wilkinson Jr., 62, no known address. Medford police arrested Wilkinson Wednesday on a felony charge of fi
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-04
On a recent afternoon, Dan Laird laid 6 pounds of marijuana on the counter of his Grants Pass shipping store. The pot, which was in six vacuum-sealed bags, wasn't his; he intercepted it when a woman tried to ship it out of his store a few days earlier. He planned to turn it over to drug agents after showing it to the Grants Pass Daily Courier. Laird, who owns Box It on Redwood Avenue, says illegal traffickers try to mail drugs, mostly pot, from his store on Redwood Avenue all the time — h
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-04
I went to the main post office the other day to find out where the returned videos for Netflix actually go. The return envelope lists a P.O. Box number that doesn't actually exist. The guy at the counter was very nervous and guarded, like this is some kind of deep, dark secret. He said it was a "phantom" box and mumbled something about Harry & David. Then he clammed up completely. Does the order-filling operation at Bear Creek Corp. really handle these things locally? Is there an actual building
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-04
Oregon Secretary of State Dennis Richardson announced Monday he is further scaling back his workload to focus on treatment of his brain cancer. Richardson didn’t provide details about his new schedule. “I will, of course, continue to be in frequent and regular contact with my staff that has been doing incredible work since the day we took office over two years ago,” Richardson said in the news release. “I will also continue to be the decision-maker on all important issues
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-04
The Oregon School Activities Association will stick with six classifications for the 2018-2022 time block, and several alignment changes will give leagues in Southern Oregon different looks. The OSAA executive board on Monday adopted the classification and districting committee’s final recommendation — issued on Sept. 28 — for six classes with only one change: Rogue River’s request to play down a class, to 2A, was approved. The board voted 10-to-1 in favor of the comm
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-04
Medford’s U.S. Cellular Community Park saw its second-highest economic output in 2018 despite lingering summer smoke and a couple of cancellations. “I think we were all a little bit surprised, but our big times of the year are spring and early summer and then again in the fall,” said Jesse Nyberg, recreation superintendent with Medford Parks, Recreation and Facilities. “When the smoke hit around mid-July ... most of our big events were done.” Visiting teams’ e
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-04
GRANTS PASS ' A pregnant Cave Junction resident was killed Tuesday after a vehicle in which she was a passenger collided with a Peterbilt truck on Highway 199 near Rogue Community College, police said. Holly Ann Dangerfield, 22, was pronounced dead at Three Rivers Community Hospital, where doctors were unsuccessful in an attempt at saving her unborn child's life, Oregon State Police said in a news release. Dangerfield was 7& 189; months pregnant at the time, police said. Five vehicles were invol