Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-07-15
Who will pay? Property and home owners! With the influx of people moving into the state and Jackson County, with it comes a burden on all our public services, schools, fire, public safety, that yearly already overspends their alloted budgets. And it goes on and on, we want more funds! Seventy-eight percent own homes, 22 percent rent. Is it fair to gave people that don’t have property or a home to vote to levy more tax on me? Where does it stop? A sales tax would make all of us carry the b
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Particular concerns of parents about child rearing seem to come in waves, like the tides, washing in anxieties around specific issues. A current wave seems to be that of “potty” training with a focus on how quickly it can be accomplished — three days, three hours, apparently the quicker the better. One can speculate about what has made this the issue at this particular time. In general, parents are subject to considerable pressure these days with both parents working and chi
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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In the last few weeks, the deaths of several of my age peers have rather destabilized me. I looked for and found solace when I discovered five questions we are encouraged to ask as we relate to a family member or friend who is facing life’s end. The impetus behind these questions is surgeon and author Atul Gawande. Anyone who reads this column regularly knows my high regard for his approaches. Gawande’s belief is that if families, friends and physicians learn to ask specific questions about end-
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Nice job, NFL The entitled white men have done it again. Not content with the atrocities of slavery, beatings, murders, and other crimes and disrespect that have been perpetrated on African Americans, the NFL has now decided that it is good policy to continue the subjugation of African Americans by penalizing them for standing up for what’s right, for protesting the unnecessary criminal acts of the continued killing of (many times) unarmed black men, and the other racially inspired prejudice tha
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Dr. Victoria Mary Stuss and Dr. Brian Lee Bones of Medford were married March 28, 2014, at Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C. The bride is the daughter of Judith M. Stuss of Boonton, N.J., and Konrad F. Stuss of Mountain Lakes, N.J. She is a 2005 graduate of Mountain Lakes High School, a 2009 graduate of Lehigh University with a bachelor's degree in health, a 2010 graduate of Leghigh University with a master's in biopharmaceutical economics, and a 2014 graduate of the Georgetow
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Jessica Caitlin Hunt and Juan Miguel Rasmussen were married Aug. 3, 2013, at The Riverhouse Hotel and Convention Center in Bend. Matt Sweeny of Ashland Christian Fellowship officiated the ceremony. The bride is the daughter of Cathy and Mike Williams of La Pine, and Rod Hunt of Bend. She is a graduate of La Pine High School and attends Southern Oregon University, majoring in health and physical education and minoring in business. She works as a sales associate at Macy's while attending SOU full
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Elise Marie Boldt and Jacob John Mahon were married on Sept. 13, 2014, on the Rogue River at Shady Cove. The bride is the daughter of Michael and Susan Boldt of Medford. She is a 2007 graduate of South Medford High School, and a 2010 graduate of Oregon State University with a bachelor's degree in Spanish. She currently works as a nanny in Springfield. The groom is the son of Kim Salas and John Mahon, both of Medford. He is a 2001 graduate of Phoenix High School, and a 2005 graduate of the Univer
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Natalie Ann Miller and Paulo Henriquez Feest were married July 27, 2013, at Schnitzer Museum at the University of Oregon in Eugene. Pastor Vicki Kerns officiated the ceremony. The bride is the daughter of Tod and Connie Miller of Central Point. She is a 2005 graduate of South Medford High School and a 2010 graduate of the University of Oregon with bachelor's degrees in Spanish and journalism. She works as a grant facilitator for EPIC in Eugene. Feest is the son of Nelson and Elsa Henriquez Feest
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Prayer in the Park A Prayer in the Park event will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 15, at the Bear Creek Park amphitheater, 1520 Siskiyou Blvd., Medford. Forty Rogue Valley churches have been invited to participate in a time of prayer and worship with a live gospel band led by singer Jennifer dePuglia. A gospel message will be given by Bruce Sherbourne. The event will be filmed by Media 14 Production. For information, call Sherbourne at 541-941-2660. LDS Church, Central Point Every Child, a non
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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We begin today — unless our travel plans have changed or there’s been a tsunami — on the coast staring out at the horizon. (Well, that’s where I am; I don’t know where you are.) And thus perched, we’re pondering the same question we’ve asked since our childhood days on that other coast: Where does the ocean go when it pours over the edge of the Earth? Does gravity make it go crashing through the ceiling of the downstairs neighbor planet? Or is it
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Council’s bad decision What is the Medford City Council thinking by approving marijuana grows in attached or previously built detached garages? Garages are meant to be used as garages; you know, to store a car or cars, or any of the other stuff people need or like to keep. Where is all that stuff going to go? I know, the car or cars will be on the street and in front of neighbors’ properties, as well as stuff accumulating on the sides and the front of houses (or in them). As well, if they can gr
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Larry Cooper Ashland Think about it Renowned scientist Carl Sagan was famous for arguing: “Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge”. He also noted that Americans were losing their ability to think critically and were sinking back into superstition and darkness. He felt that our media were the prime reason for this dumbing down. I agree, and it has gotten worse as sound bites and media punditry have proliferated, while nuanced thought and critical think
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Stephanie Elizabeth Prince and Eric Gene Minney were married June 20, 2015, at Apserkaha Park at Howard Prairie Lake near Ashland. The bride's uncle Timothy Self officiated the ceremony. The bride is the daughter of John Prince of Medford and AnnaMaria Christian of Beaverton. She is a graduate of North Medford High School, and is a stay-at-home mom. The groom is the son of Jerry Minney of Portland and Debbie Minney of Shady Cove. He is a graduate of Reynolds High School, and currently works in m
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Adam Miner Berrien and Sonya Kayla Sanchez, both of Central Point, were married April 28 along the Rogue River at Shady Cove. A friend of the couple, Myles Johnson of Jacksonville, officiated the ceremony, and about 50 friends and relatives attended. The bride is the daughter of Linda Sanchez of Gold Hill and Manuel Sanchez of Reno, Nev. She was given away by her uncle, Jimmy Markwick, and was assisted by two maids of honor, Chelsea Sanchez and Kayleen Walker; two bridesmaids, Emily Wilder and L
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Stephanie Ann Chambers and Marquis "Marq" Ian Wraight were married on Nov. 2, 2013, at Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe, Incline Village, Nev. Joedat "Joe" Tuffana officiated the ceremony. The bride is the daughter of Douglas and Debbie Chambers of San Jose. She is a 2001 graduate of Archbishop Mitty High School in San Jose, a 2004 graduate of UCLA with a bachelor's in Communication Studies, and a 2008 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with law degree. She currently works as an attorney for Loc
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Mother’s Day weekend means Art in Bloom is back, bursting with art, flowers, live music and activities of all kinds in downtown Medford. This springtime festival showcases fine artists and horticulturists from the West Coast. More than 120 will display paintings, photography, jewelry, garden decor and more from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 12, and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, May 13, in the heart of downtown, along Main and Bartlett streets and Central Avenue. Downtown streets will be clo
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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During the 1996 movie "Independence Day,” massive spaceships surround the globe, clearly threatening our extinction. When the enemy is a clear and present danger, we respond rapidly. Unfortunately, both global warming and its climate change consequences seem obvious only to those who are aware of the causes and implications of the threat. Although climate trends are evident to us here and now in the Rogue Basin, unlike the cyclical variations of short-term daily or weekly weather patterns
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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The sandwich-sized clear Ziploc baggie looked innocuous at first. Ellen Jacobs’ husband went to pick it up off their driveway as they left with their 12-year-old grandson. “I said, ‘Is that from the gardener?’” Ellen said. “And he said, ‘No, I think it’s worse.’” Nestled inside was a piece of hard candy and a folded flier — recruiting materials from the United Northern and Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. “I was appalle
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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There will be no criminal charges filed against a Central Point man who ran into the back of a car while trying to merge in a construction zone, causing a crash that killed a Rogue River woman in September. The Jackson County District Attorney's Office reported Steven Coleman, 31, was driving his vehicle at an unsafe speed in the crash that killed 45-year-old Michelle Lauritzen, but that his conduct was "not egregious enough to rise to the level of recklessness or criminal negligence," according