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Arlo Guthrie has, of late, toured celebrating the music of his father — folk music legend Woody Guthrie — and marked the anniversary of his 1967 classic album, “Alice’s Restaurant,” at live shows. Now he’s playing shows without theme or structure on his own and, as on his new tour, with son Abe Guthrie and granddaughter Sarah Lee Guthrie. “I tend to get a little more flexible,” Guthrie says. “It’s a kind of show I haven’t done for a few decades, in the sense that I haven’t done some of these (so
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Sonny Smith, 42, a 1991 graduate of Eagle Point High School and reserve deputy with the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office in Clarksville, Ark., was killed Friday in a shootout with a suspected burglar. His aunt, Jacque Smith of Phoenix, Oregon, said in an interview today that Sonny was a volunteer deputy with the agency. He worked days in the family business building garage doors and nights as a watchman at a nearby nuclear power plant. Sonny Smith and a deputy were searching for a sus
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After several years of hearings and planning and 60 public meetings, Ashland City Council Tuesday approved the Normal Neighborhood Master Plan, which allows developers to apply for annexation and building — and enables the city to build infrastructure, which will be partly paid for by residents of Ashland. The complex and controversial plan for the 94 acres centered around East Main, Walker and Ashland streets passed on second reading by a 4-1 vote. Councilor Carol Voisin dissented, sayin
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A man Medford police went to check on Tuesday night ran from them, then turned to attack, swinging a homemade weapon at officers, spitting in one's face and breaking the plastic shield between seats in a patrol car, police reported today Joseph Morauski, 22, is jailed on charges of aggravated harassment, menacing, disorderly conduct, interfering with a police officer and resisting arrest. He is held in the Jackson County Jail on $27,000 bail, records show. Morauski's family called to ask police
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ROSEBURG — An Oregon college where a gunman killed nine people and himself last month will have a patrol officer from the county sheriff's office on campus for the rest of the year. Douglas County commissioners approved a $30,000 contract with Umpqua Community College on Wednesday. The Roseburg News-Review reports  that the money will pay for a sheriff's deputy to be on campus seven hours per day, five days a week for the rest of the fiscal year. The lack of an armed guard on campus
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Sometime around Thanksgiving, the Medford airport broke its all-time passenger record. Surpassing the 60,000 passenger mark for the seventh straight month in November, the Jackson County-owned airport smashed the 2014 standard, leaving room for even more records. A November-record of 61,882 travelers passed through the gates, propelling the 2015 total to 693,606 — far exceeding 2014's record of 664,423. After taking a look at the trend lines, Airport Director Bern Case said he has on
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This has been exceptional year for box sets, headlined by sets from Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan. If you’re looking for a special gift for a music fan, you can’t go wrong with any of the dozen following sets. Bruce Springsteen: “The Ties That Bind: The River Collection” (Columbia) — Like the box set reissues of Springsteen’s “Born To Run” and “Darkness on the Edge of Town” albums, “The River” is a bonanza for
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Edward Gene Covic {br class="hardreturn" /} Edward Gene Covic, 83, passed away October 7, 2015 at home, surrounded by his loving family. Born in Chadron, Neb. to Nick and Marion Covic, Gene was the fourth child among seven siblings. He graduated from Chadron Prep High School and one of his proudest accomplishments was his high school basketball team winning the State Championship in 1950. He was also very proud of obtaining his pilot’s license at the age of 17. In 1951 he enlisted in the M
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For the sixth year in a row, Ashland police officers grabbed carts and got shopping with children who otherwise wouldn't have much to open Christmas morning. By 8 a.m. Saturday, Deputy Chief Warren Hensman, who coordinated the event, had successfully paired 16 children with staff from the Ashland Police Department who volunteered time to participate in the "Shop With a Cop" event at the south Medford Walmart store. He attributed his quick work to being a cashier years ago. Officers helped childr
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The Jackson County Board of Commissioners unanimously passed a proclamation Wednesday voicing opposition to the expansion of background checks when people buy guns. It states the board opposes any expansion of Oregon's background check system for the transfer of firearms between qualified and law-abiding people. "This board is united in support of Second Amendment rights and is opposed to an expansion of background checks," said Commissioner Rick Dyer, referring to constitutional protections of
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During the nine-month run of “Shakespeare in Love,” actor Preston Mead has missed only a few performances so far — including when he had to take his SAT test. The 17-year-old will be a senior at Ashland High School this fall, but he’s already in his second season with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Mead is stealing scenes this year with his laugh-out-loud rendition of the character John Webster, a slouchy, glowering street urchin who favors blood-and-guts plays. In
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“Off the Rails” opened last week at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the world premiere of a play that is also OSF’s first by a Native American playwright, Native Voices’ Randy Reinholz. Loosely based on Shakespeare's “Measure for Measure,” “Off the Rails” sharpens the moral issues surrounding federal Indian policies in the 1800s, policies that are terrible to recall and important to remember. On the opening night of “Off the Rails,&
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By Maureen Flanagan Battistella for the Mail Tribune “Annie Get Your Gun” is a big, classic musical with a full-on ensemble in boots and buckskins. The 1946 Broadway hit, updated in the 1999 revival, opened last week at Camelot Theatre. Annie Oakley meets up with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show in Cincinnati and falls in love with Frank Butler, a handsome ladies man and champion sharpshooter. Annie’s the deadeye, though, and when she and Frank show down in a shooting ma
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The vintage rock 'n' roll in Oregon Cabaret Theatre's "Million Dollar Quartet" is enough to bring any house to its feet. The show opens with a rousing interpretation of "Blue Suede Shoes," performed by Christopher Wren, William Boyajian, Jared Freiburg and Christopher Fordinal in the roles of rock 'n' roll and country legends Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley. It's nearly Christmas in 1956 in Memphis, Tennessee. The four men are at Sun Records recording studio with pro
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“Dial M for Murder” is a 50’s crime mystery of noir proportions. First produced as a BBC television series and later by Alfred Hitchcock for the big screen, “Dial M for Murder” has been in production almost continuously since 1952. The show opened last weekend on the Jacksonville stage of the Randall Theatre Company. “Dial M for Murder” is the classic British conundrum of suspense and sleight of hand. An aging tennis player marries for money and tires of
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Chills ran up and down my spine at the opening performance of the Collaborative Theatre Project’s "The Woman in Black," a deliciously frightening fall thriller, and the perfect play to open on Friday the 13th. The performance opened to a set only faintly illuminated and shrouded in white, ghostly forms stirred by a faint breeze. The music was ominous, growing louder and more threatening as the countdown to curtain grew shorter. An aging lawyer enlists the help of a brash young actor to te
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The idea for a showcase of Neil Diamond songs for one of Camelot Theatre's musical spotlights came to singer Erik Connolly a couple of years ago. "I really am in love with Diamond's music, and I think it will make a good show," he says. When he shared his idea with Roy Von Rains Jr., the theater's artistic director jumped at the opportunity. Connolly's role as the pop singer has its limitations. Connolly's vocal range is a high lyric baritone or low tenor, while Diamond's is classic baritone. "I
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"Christmas Day was always the happiest day of the year,” says Ed Miller as he reminisces about what he considers truly the most wonderful time of the year. Wistful, he recalls loved ones embracing the spirit of giving and the family singing carols around the piano. Those sentimental feelings, like brightly-colored ribbons, wind their way through “With Every Christmas Card I Write,” a multimedia musical revue starring singer Kacie Bowers and co-written by Miller and Lauren Ja
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Americans, a litigious people, believe that rules for coping with messy reality can be written in tidy legal language. This belief will be tested by the debate that will resume when Congress returns from a recess it should not have taken, with a war to authorize. The debate concerns an Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) against the Islamic State and also against ... Well. The debate's difficulty defines its urgency: It is hard to say precisely against what (does the Islamic State's n