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Allegiant Air is fighting to reassure travelers and protect its reputation after renewed questions about safety at the low-cost carrier. Safety experts say the numbers tell another story. There have been far too many aborted takeoffs, in-flight mechanical problems and emergency landings involving Allegiant planes in recent years. The CBS program “60 Minutes” reported that Allegiant experienced more than 100 serious mechanical incidents on flights between January 2016 and October 20
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When Lela Chavez moved her family from Wisconsin to Southern Oregon in 2012, some of the differences her children would experience in their new schools were immediately obvious. “When you have families come from bigger cities ... you want your child to feel welcomed,” she said. “Teachers who are minorities can be role models to other minorities, who are like, ‘Oh, I could be a teacher one day.’” In Central Point and Medford school districts, where Chavez&rsquo
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CENTRAL POINT — A player in disbelief, a coach in disgust and a team in disarray, and this was only 61/2 minutes into Tuesday’s marquee Class 5A boys basketball matchup between No. 1-ranked Churchill and third-ranked host Crater. Prolific sophomore post Nate Bittle was tagged with his third foul of the game at that pivotal first-quarter moment and, despite a gritty effort by his teammates, the 6-foot-10 void loomed too large as the Lancers steadily built momentum and secured an event
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In the midst of the Great Recession, a handful of wineries between Ashland and Central Point conceived the idea of the Bear Creek Wine Trail passport. It was hardly an innovative idea, but at a time when local wineries needed a shot in the arm, the passport turned out to be good medicine. “Our main goal to begin with was to capture and circulate the wine-tasting public in the Rogue Valley, whether they were tourists or local people,” said Pebblestone Cellars owner Dick Ellis. Bear Cr
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Road building, infrastructure for housing and commercial developments have kept construction workers busy through the winter. Now with the spring temperatures arriving, construction projects are picking up the pace. “There is a lot of demand out there, with more stuff in the pipeline, looking at the first couple of months of permit data,” said Guy Tauer, a regional economist for the Oregon Employment Department. “We slacked off a bit in 2017 compared to 2016, but the first coup
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ASHLAND – Folks who market Southern Oregon were told Monday they have easiest job in the world. “Nature has done half of the job for us,” Lou Radja, founder of EduCongo in Beaverton, told the 22nd annual Travel Southern Oregon Symposium at Ashland Hills Hotel & Suites. “We get to represent Southern Oregon, all the beauty this place has to offer, and the people that make it happen. To me that’s a pretty sweet deal.” Radja was born in Boston before his parents r
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Five new monarch butterfly way stations are bringing a burst of color and life to Stewart Meadows Golf Course . The way stations, to be unveiled Friday, are pollinator gardens with elements of food, shelter and water for the colorful insects. Spread throughout the nine-hole course, the gardens were placed for both golfers and butterflies, according to Robert Coffan, co-founder of Southern Oregon Monarch Advocates . “These way stations are not only a visual aesthetic for the golf course, bu
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We’ve had several conversations recently with both clients and friends who were feeling stuck because a situation that was supposed to go one way, had taken a turn and was going another way. They had run into an obstacle. To support them on their journey, we shared with them the three steps of leadership (from [...] Click here to read the full post
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Entry Price: $21,685 Price as tested: $31,305 This week we’re driving another Volkswagen, this time the 2018 Volkswagen Golf SportWagen. This VW is still called a “station wagon” as the latter two words that have nearly disappeared from the car manufacturing vocabulary. The station wagon vernacular was most popular with the baby boomer and earlier generations when wagons toured the highways in mass numbers. Slowly, station wagons sank out of favor as the minivan, which first
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CENTRAL POINT — Helen Funk's first crack at running the Jackson County Fair went so well she's already counting down the days to the 2016 fair. Feedback from social media, animal handlers, food and drink vendors, as well as carnival operators, bolstered the notion the county fair is on the right track — something that has been hotly debated in recent years. Even with the traditional Tuesday opening jettisoned, the Wednesday-through-Sunday affair drew nearly 81,000 pe
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Fresh off a stellar first quarter, People’s Bank of Commerce has opened the doors at its new $6.5 million home office on Biddle Road. Although the second-floor administrative center and third-floor executive offices won’t be ready until May at the 20,000-square-foot headquarters, tellers and lenders are greeting customers at the one-time site of Marie Callender’s Restaurant. Natural light pours into the building designed by OgdenRoemerWilkerson Architecture from three sides,
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Ashland internet pioneer Jim Teece told a Chamber Forum audience Monday it’s not a good idea to politicize internet access. On the same day Oregon Gov. Kate Brown signed a net neutrality bill to countermand the Federal Communications Commission’s repeal of the 2015 rules, Teece took to task all political assaults on his bread-and-butter business. “The government regulates everything that is important and critical, and they stayed away from the internet for a long time,ȁ
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PHOENIX — There was a time when Rising Sun Farms founder Elizabeth Fujas chased customers. It was a grueling process for a specialty food company. Now the customers are coming to Rising Sun Farms. So much so that the maker of cheese tortas, spreads and other delights has more than doubled revenue over a three-year period. That growth trend ranked Rising Sun No. 2,817 on the Inc. 5000 2018 chart released this month. “We’ve changed our business from providing product to product d
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The numbers spill off the page like coins spewing out of a slot machine that just locked on a row of 7s. Oregon’s tourism industry keeps piling up visitor counts, jobs and dollars. For the eighth straight year, the statewide tourism numbers expanded, growing to $11.8 billion in 2017 from $11.3 billion in 2016, according to a Dean Runyan Associates report released this month. Tourism-related employment grew 2.2 percent to 112,000 jobs, up 2,700 jobs. Last year’s 4.7 percent growth r
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ASHLAND — With the summer vacation season just around the corner, the region’s travel leaders are prepping to build on Southern Oregon’s billion-dollar tourism industry. The 22nd annual Travel Southern Oregon Tourism Symposium, themed “Discover Your Sense of Place,” unfolds Sunday and Monday at the Ashland Hills Hotel & Suites. Brad Niva, appointed Travel Southern Oregon executive director a year ago, has reshaped the agency and beefed up the staff with the ass
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Dear Dave, My husband and I are just starting Baby Step 1 of your plan. Prior to this, we told my two nephews we would buy them laptop computers for college. They don’t get a lot of encouragement or support from their immediate family, so we try to help them when we can. Should we go ahead and honor this commitment, postpone getting our starter emergency fund in place, and possibly take on a little more debt, or bow out of the agreement? — Lisa Dear Lisa, Well, it’s difficul
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Fiscal third quarters have always been a stretch for Harry & David, even after its absorption by 1-800-Flowers.com. Nonetheless, the Medford-based gourmet food and gift unit of the Long Island, New York, floral and gift retailer helped power 15.5 percent revenue growth in the gourmet foods and gift baskets part of the company. Overall, adjusting for the May 2017 sale of Fannie May Confection Brands, 1-800-Flowers grew revenue 2.1 percent to $238.5 million for the quarter that ended April 1, up f
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I’ve received about 20 letters over the last five years about the Chevy SSR, so now is a good time to answer these many Chevrolet SSR inquiries with one column. Being that one of the featured trucks around where I live in the Sayre, Pennsylvania. to Elmira/Binghamton, New York area is a very rare 2006 Chevrolet SSR silver over blue pickup convertible (owned by Dave Mareck of Sayre), I can attest that this feature will answer many of the questions I’ve received. Mareck sat down with
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Mail Tribune Lindsey Rice was named Leader’s Choice at the 2018 Rogue Valley Youth for Christ Emerging Leaders ceremony Tuesday in downtown Medford. The para-church organization honored 13 community members during a program at The Inn at the Commons. Ten leaders younger than 40 and three students were feted for their excellence in philanthropy and leadership performance. They were chosen based on their commitment to making the region a better and safer place to live, as well as their stro
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More local single-family residences went on the market, mortgage interest rates edged up, and the pace of sales increased 20.6 percent during the first quarter of 2018. The confluence of those factors pushed the median sales price of existing Jackson County single-family residences up to $269,900 from $245,000 a year earlier — a 10. 2 percent surge — according figures compiled by the Southern Oregon Multiple Listing Service. At the end of March, there were 846 houses listed for sal