Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Gardenburger inventor Paul Wenner has a new creation, a packed meal called the Gardenbar that's akin to a granola bar, but with a blend of vegetables as the primary ingredient. Wenner, who rode Gardenburger from poverty to one of the hottest stocks in captivity during the 1990s, said financial hard times spurred his latest effort. "I started buying real estate in Hawaii right before the whole thing shifted," said Wenner, who has a home in Maui, spends a lot of time in Los Angeles, but more often
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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It’s hard to believe we have to do this again, but here goes: There is an active measles outbreak in the Portland area because parents did not vaccinate their children. It is possible new cases could turn up here. One case has been confirmed in Bend. If you have children who are old enough to be vaccinated against measles and they are not immunized, just get it done. Please. The current outbreak now stands at 38 cases, most of them in and around Vancouver, Washington. An additional 13 case
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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The recent story about a hunter shooting and then getting injured by a bear elicited a defense of hunting as a way to provide food for oneself or family. My question is, do people eat bear meat? I thought it was unpalatable and a source of trichinosis. — Dale G., via email Not only do people eat bear meat, hunters who shoot them are basically obligated to do so under Oregon laws, Dale. Like deer or elk, bears are considered game animals, and those killed must not be wasted. That said, many
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Felony arrests Drugs — Brandon James Sesock, 33, of the 6200 block of Gem Road, Central Point. Central Point police arrested Sesock Tuesday on felony charges of delivering and possessing methamphetamine, possessing heroin, misdemeanor warrants for failing to appear in court on previous charges of delivering and possessing meth, and for violating his probation on prior convictions for unlawfully possessing a firearm silencer and possessing methamphetamine. He was booked in the Jackson Count
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A deadly arctic deep freeze enveloped the Midwest with record-breaking temperatures on Wednesday, triggering widespread closures of schools and businesses, and prompting the U.S. Postal Service to take the rare step of suspending mail delivery to a wide swath of the region. Many normal activities shut down and residents huddled inside as the National Weather Service forecast plunging temperatures from one of the coldest air masses in years. The bitter cold is the resu
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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A Medford detective is embroiled in a $10 million civil rights lawsuit and an internal investigation over questions about a criminal case that was dropped after it became known she was friends with the alleged victim. Grants Pass resident Rochelle Stocker filed the lawsuit Jan. 24 in U.S. District Court against the city of Medford, Medford police Detective Brenda Garich, and Carolyn Lesley of Noel Lesley Event Services Inc., a Phoenix (Ore.) company that stages events for the NFL. The lawsuit, w
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Carpenter Patrick Starnes, former 2018 candidate for governor, now earns a living renovating an 1878 house in Brownsville. In his spare time, he is working to remodel Oregon's campaign finance laws to cut the influence of major donors. Limiting campaign money was a primary plank for Starnes as he campaigned for governor last year as the candidate of the Independent Party of Oregon. He took no more than $100 from any single donor, though Oregon law would have allowed him to take checks of any siz
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There’s a lot to love about the Oregon Tempranillo Celebration, the statewide wine industry confab where all aspects of this amazing varietal are touted and tasted during a full day of seminars, held Jan. 18-20 this year, at the Ashland Hills Hotel and Suites. With presentations from winemakers, critics, sommeliers and marketing gurus, not to mention an array of 21 wines to sample and discuss, it’s a lot to take in. At the end of the day, as I look over my wine-blotched notes, a few
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“The Glass Menagerie” is a tormented, anguished exercise in abuse and discontent. Directed by Russell Lloyd, Tennessee Williams’ largely autobiographical work opened Jan. 18, at the Collaborative Theatre Project in Medford. The Wingfield family members can barely hold their household together, and truly, they struggle to maintain their sanity. “The Glass Menagerie” is a memory play, and it is Tom Wingfield’s regrets that are played out on the stage, the charac
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Back-to-back traffic crashes Wednesday involving pedestrians left one dead, two others injured and mangled traffic throughout Medford for hours. Scott Deusebio, 49, died after he was struck by a double dump truck in the middle of North Phoenix Road, while two other males were sent to the hospital after a full-size SUV struck them at a crosswalk near North Central Avenue and East Jackson Street. At 2:03 p.m., Deusebio reportedly first ran across the southbound lanes and then proceeded into the no
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The Associated Press BEAVERTON ' Nike Inc. filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Adidas-Salomon AG on Thursday, claiming its archrival makes shoes using elements of Nike's SHOX cushioning technology. Beaverton-based Nike alleges the new Kevin Garnett signature shoe by Adidas and its A3 shoes are among the footwear that violates the Nike patent. Despite Nike's patent protection, Adidas has built shoes that use Nike's technology, Nike spokesman Vada Manager said. Adidas officials at the Germ
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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An aircraft that crashed Monday near Prospect was a small utility plane, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. Steven Dawson Jr., 34, of Central Point, was piloting a 1975 Rockwell 112A that took off from the Prospect airport. The aircraft went down early Monday evening for reasons still under investigation, according to NTSB spokesman Peter Knudson. As of Wednesday afternoon, Dawson remained a patient at Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center. He was listed in good condition. The
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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An outbreak of measles that continues to spread near the Portland area has health officials on high alert in Jackson County, where low immunization rates in some areas could spell chaos with just one infection. No Ashland K-12 school, for example, has more than 84 percent of students who are fully vaccinated against measles. “It’s really a matter of when, not if, we’re going to have a measles outbreak,” said Jackson County health officer Dr. Jim Shames, “unless some
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A core group of innovators are bringing the TED brand to the Rogue Valley at TEDxAshland, and they want you to be a part of it. The conference will be from 1 to 5 p.m. May 20 at the Camelot Theatre in Talent, and you could add your name to the list of speakers. Proposals for 10 vibrant and compelling presentations that delve deep into the ideas of “Life and Death” are invited through Feb. 14. TED, an acronym for Technology, Education, Design, began in 1984 with a conference organized
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WHITE CITY — Laminate Technologies president and CEO Fred Zoeller’s planned expansion for his burgeoning West Coast operation is finally happening, just not the way he initially anticipated. North America’s largest privately held continuous-roll laminating firm had planned to purchase property next door to its Avenue C plant, build and then crank up production. Alas, that idea didn’t excite state agencies. “There were some environmental issues,” Zoeller said.
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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As Lithia Motors executives detailed yet another record month on a Wednesday morning conference call with financial analysts, geography entered the discussion. Four out of five American drivers live within 500 miles of Lithia Motors dealership and service centers, based on auto registration figures. Nonetheless, there is a gaping expanse in the Southeast and large swaths of the Midwest far from a Lithia outpost. Sooner or later, the Medford auto retailer will make its move into the unconquered t
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Donald Easley sat with his hands clasped on the table in front of him, lips pursed and eyes fixed on a corner of the ceiling as family members of the neighbor he killed, Laron Estes, poured out their grief at Easley's sentencing hearing in a Josephine County courtroom Thursday. Estes' mother, Kathy DeVol, told the 65-year-old Kerby man that he took one of the most precious things "that God has ever given me." "What did you win? What did you win?" she said to Easley. "And that's my last words to
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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All but four of 30 employees at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Forensics Laboratory in Ashland were furloughed during the 35-day partial shutdown of the federal government during a standoff over funding for a controversial wall on the southern border. With staff back at work Monday, lab Director Ken Goddard said the furlough brought “a tremendous amount of stress” for employees, who were not paid during the shutdown, but were filing Monday for missed paychecks, which “hopeful
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Bigger planes, more seats and growing options have fueled the largest commercial air-growth spurt in the Medford airport’s history. So much so that airport Director Jerry Brienza is confident the million-passenger threshold will be reached this year. “We’re projecting 12 to 15 percent increases each month, so at the end of the year we would be over a million passengers,” Brienza said Friday. Figures posted this week show that 72,326 passengers passed through the gates
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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A local pilot has survived a night in the woods following Jackson County’s second aircraft crash in a week. Steven Dawson Jr., 34, of Central Point, was found hypothermic and injured Tuesday morning near Prospect after crashing what Jackson County Sheriff’s Deputy Noah Strohmeyer described as a “small experimental aircraft.” Dawson was the only person aboard the aircraft, which was found about 17 hours after he’d departed from the Prospect airport. “The crash