Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-30
Powerboat operators would see registration fees rise by one third and nonmotorized boaters would pay new fees earmarked for better water access under the Oregon State Marine Board’s planned budget request in the upcoming Oregon legislative session. The Marine Board on Friday unveiled the “legislative concepts” it will take to the Legislature in 2019, addressing declining revenues from boat registrations amid growing numbers of annual boating trips on Oregon’s popular lakes, rivers and estuaries.
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
Concerts in the Park Rockabilly band Gino and the Gunmen, featuring guitarist Gino Meregillano, will perform at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 5, at Bear Creek Amphitheater in Bear Creek Park, Siskiyou Boulevard and Highland Drive, Medford. Admission is free. St. Cinder Five-piece string band St. Cinder will play folk, ragtime and New Orleans jazz at 11 a.m. Friday, June 29, at La Baguette Music Cafe, 340 A St., Ashland, 541-482-0855. The band members happened to meet about four years ago in Ashland.
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
A Central Point hiker and his dog who had been missing since June 21 were found alive Friday in Northern California. Family members found David Shaw Ura, 64, in the Tehama County wilderness near Red Bluff, according to Tehama County Sheriff’s Detective Rob Bakken. A rescue team organized by family members had looked south while a search-and-rescue team looked north. Family found him Friday morning near an area known as Cold Springs, south of the Bigfoot Trail, according to Bakken. Aerial searche
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
A 40-year-old Medford woman had to be airlifted Thursday after she fell 100 feet at a popular recreation spot in Douglas County. Laura Greenley fell near Toketee Falls at 3:20 p.m., according to a news release from Oregon State Police. Greenley had ventured past the safety fencing along the trail and “tried to hike down to the falls,” police said At about 7 p.m., rescue crews from Douglas County Fire District No. 2 were able to bring the woman back up to the trail. They transferred her to a crew
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
Friday, June 29 Quilt Show: Mountain Stars Quilters Guild will host its biennial quilt show from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday, June 29-30, at the Medford Armory, 1701 S. Pacific Highway. This year’s theme, Vive la difference, celebrates diversity in quilting. More than 200 quilts will be displayed. Look for demonstrations, door prizes, raffles and more. Tickets to win the quilt Vintage Garden will be sold with proceeds to benefit Hearts with a Mission. Vendors will offer fabric, patte
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
Camelot Theatre: 101 Talent Ave., Talent. Tickets and information available at camelottheatre.org or 541-535-5250. The box office is open from noon to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and one hour before performances. ‘Priscilla, Queen of the Desert’: When Tick’s ex-wife needs an act at her remote resort, a trio of drag queens travel across the Austrlian Outback in a battered, old bus, nicknamed Priscilla. On their journey, they discover, though life isn’t always kind, they may still find more tha
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
As an artist, Krister Axel sees himself as a case of what happens when ambition falls between the cracks. Born in Paris, schooled in White Plains, New York, and Madison, Wisconsin, he’s written and performed roots and blues since he was a kid. He was in his 20s when he made the move to Los Angeles. “For so long, I felt like some big thing was going to happen, and I would get noticed,” Axel says. “Now I’m in my 40s, and I’ve never let go of that dream. Though I haven’t reached any massive level o
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
The famous blue of Crater Lake became a bit more muted than usual this past weekend in an all-too-familiar sign of summer. A shroud of smoke circled Wizard Island in the lake’s caldera, blown in from wildfires in the Bend area, including the 100,000-acre Boxcar fire near Maupin. It’s like a touch of August coming to Southern Oregon during the first official weekend of summer, providing a grim reminder that the outdoor life often taken for granted here isn’t a gimme during the often unpredictable
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
Excuse my language, but the trek along the Pacific Crest Trail to Little Hyatt Lake is a dam good hike. That’s because the hike, which begins from either the PCT trailhead off the Greensprings Highway or from a parking area a short drive north, ends near the Little Hyatt Dam. The dam good view is from a footbridge toward the lake, where water from Little Hyatt cascades over a broad, 18-foot-high spillway into Keene Creek. Along with great views both upstream and downstream, for northbound hikers
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
Felony arrests Drugs — Jolene Noele Verza, 42, of the 2000 block of Manchester Drive, Medford. Medford police arrested Verza Thursday on felony counts of possessing methamphetamine and heroin, and on a sanction for violating her probation on a prior heroin-possession conviction. She was lodged in the Jackson County Jail Thursday without bail. Criminal Mischief — Nikolas Tyler Brewer, 23, no known address. Central Point police and Jackson County sheriff’s deputies arrested Brewer Thursday on two
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
An organization that helps special-needs kids and their caretakers partake in a day of fishing is in need of volunteer anglers with boats to help make this special day happen. The CAST for Kids Foundation is planning its second annual event July 14 at Emigrant Lake east of Ashland, one of three such events in Oregon this month and among 80 scheduled for 2018 across the country. The local event, which is sponsored by Willie Boats of Medford, partners volunteers from the Medford area with local sp
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
State water resources managers are coming to Medford Wednesday to hear how Rogue River Basin residents want to see the basin's drought resiliency improved amid upcoming land-use changes here and expected changes to the climate. The Oregon Water Resources Department is in the midst of its first update to 2012's inaugural Integrated Water Resources Strategy, which outlines goals for managing surface water and groundwater, and seeks out projects that could improve and protect water volume and acces
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
KLAMATH FALLS — Compensation payments were made for four cattle killed and one injured by wolves during Monday's meeting of the Klamath County Wolf Depredation Committee. DeTar Livestock of Dixon, California, which grazes cattle on the Nicholson Ranch near Fort Klamath, will receive roughly $3,660 for four cattle killed earlier this month by wolves. The payments — $1,212, $792, $764 and $893 — are based on recent cattle sales. DeTar runs cattle on Wood River Valley land owne
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
A heat wave expected to bring triple-digit temperatures to Medford a month earlier than normal is moving in, and it's bringing the region "within touching range" of fire-season restrictions, authorities said. A high-pressure system began to put its clamps on Southern Oregon today and will squeeze its tightest by Saturday, when high temperatures are expected to hit 100 degrees, according to the National Weather Service in Medford. "It's definitely possible to see the century mark Saturday," weath
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
A popular spring hike series on the Table Rocks is back with new and old favorites as the program marks its 30th season of shepherding hikers on learning and viewing trips to the Rogue Valley's most iconic feature. The weekend hike series started early this year, with a hike in February and two in March. The hikes continue Saturday and run through May with a series of topical outings organized by the Bureau of Land Management and The Nature Conservancy, which own and manage Upper and Lower Table
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
The state of Oregon will continue operating Cole Rivers Hatchery under a new one-year contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to raise and release about 2.8 million fish annually in the Rogue River Basin and not privatize the operation. After months of negotiations, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's new $2.1 million contract with the Corps was signed last week and went into effect Friday, six months after future hatchery operation fell into limbo amid potential changes in how t
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
The Bureau of Land Management has pulled the controversial Nedsbar timber sale off the table and plans to tweak it in hopes of making it economically viable. The agency kept the sale open for sealed bids after none came forward during an auction for timber buyers Thursday in Medford. BLM originally intended to keep it open for 30 days, but it opted late Friday to see whether it can make the sale more financially appealing to bidders. "We're going to pull it back and see if we can work on the eco
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
PAHOA, Hawaii (AP) — The lava hisses, crackles and sizzles. It roars like an engine, the sheer force causing an audible whoosh as it sloshes and bubbles. It shoots into the sky, bright orange and full of danger, or oozes along the pavement, a giant bubbling blob of black marshmallow-looking mess, crushing homes and making roads impassable. For the past week, Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has spewed lava into the air, destroyed homes, forced residents into shelters and agitated an otherwise cheerful,
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
ASHLAND — Federal land managers are mulling whether to close or decommission as few as six miles or up to as many as 165 miles of old logging roads within the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument to help preserve the land's biodiversity but retain public access. The federal Bureau of Land Management's long-awaited draft plan grapples with how to address 412 miles of roads that everyone from hunters and birders to wildland firefighters use to access a 60,434-acre chunk of the monument.&
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
ASHLAND — A reddish patch of forestland high above Ashland is a scarlet example that, when it comes to burning, foresters still have some learning to do. The 65-acre patch intentionally set off June 6 as part of the Ashland Forest Resiliency Stewardship Project burned hotter than intended, resulting in scorched portions of the forest canopy and an unknown number of dead or dying trees that the controlled burn was supposed to enhance, authorities said. Those dead trees include so