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RCC offers dental assistant program Monday Dec 12, 2016 at 4:50 PM Rogue Community College will host an informational session on its dental assistant program from 4 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 14, in Building A at the Riverside Campus, 202 S. Riverside Ave., Medford. Participants will receive information on local employment, wage ranges, benefits, how to apply for admission and financial aid and requirements for the one-year certification program, according to a news relea
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Is there a future for nuclear power? The Watts Bar Nuclear Power Plant in Spring City, Tennessee, was going to start commercial power production in August but a fire in the plant's transformer forced an emergency shutdown. The power plant is now operating at full power and producing electricy for the grid. AP Photo/Chattanooga Times Free Press, Dan Henry, File Monday Dec 12, 2016 at 2:00 AM Dec 12, 2016 at 7:50 AM By Christine Legere GateHouse Me
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Petunia and the Vipers play The Wild Goose Canadian country rockers Petunia and the Vipers bring new music to The Wild Goose Cafe. petuniamusic.bandcamp.com Monday Dec 12, 2016 at 9:00 AM Laurie Heuston Mail Tribune Petunia and the Vipers springboard off the roots of rock, country, swing, ragtime and jazz to land squarely on a bold new sound that is nothing short of brilliant. "It's theatrical and full of action, adventure and romance," Petunia says during a telephone in
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Paddling on a stream of consciousness Kayakers work their way down the Wood River in July. Photo courtesy Loren Kerns / Flickr.com Friday Aug 12, 2016 at 12:01 AM By Lee Juillerat for the Mail Tribune Surreal colors. Bucolic scenery. And gentle waters that almost lullaby a paddler to sleep. When it's time to kick back, relax and savor the scenery, the Wood River is the place. Meandering 18 miles from the spring where it emerges at Joseph Kimball State Park near Klamath C
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New 'teacher's aide' in Eagle Point is more bark than bite Gabby Truesdell, 10, left, and Heather Honeyfield, 10, hang out Wednesday with Dallas, a therapy dog, during their fifth-grade class at Hillside Elementary School in Eagle Point. Mail Tribune / Jamie Lusch Monday Dec 12, 2016 at 2:00 AM Dec 12, 2016 at 7:50 AM Teresa Thomas Mail Tribune @teresathomas_MT EAGLE POINT — The school district’s most recent hire is a hairy one, but
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Kids Unlimited Academy replaces director with 'dream team' Jani Hale Monday Dec 12, 2016 at 12:01 AM Teresa Thomas Mail Tribune @teresathomas_MT Kids Unlimited Academy is under new leadership after its director of academics, Lynn Eccleston, resigned unexpectedly over Veteran’s Day weekend. Tom Cole, executive director of Kids Unlimited, a free after-school and mentoring program that is the public charter school's parent company and host, declined to comment on Ecc
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Part of Grants Pass land reserve could be sold Sunday Dec 11, 2016 at 2:14 PM By Shaun Hall Grants Pass Daily Courier GRANTS PASS — An advisory board has suggested that the Grants Pass City Council inventory "surplus" city-owned land and possibly sell it, including at least part of the 248-acre River Road Reserve. Proceeds might be used to improve existing parks or buy land for soccer fields. "We need money," said Gary Still, a member of the eight-member Grants Pa
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Jo Co dog saved from possible fate as bait Monday Dec 12, 2016 at 11:49 AM Dec 12, 2016 at 11:49 AM By Madeline Shannon Grants Pass Daily Courier Two men were stopped by a Josephine County Animal Protection officer last week trying to force a yellow Labrador into the back of a 1970s-era Chevrolet pickup with a camper shell, causing concern that the men were trying to gather dogs to be used in dog-fighting rings, according to the Josephine County
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Guest Opinion: Biomass plants run on byproducts, not trees Sunday Dec 11, 2016 at 12:01 AM By Todd Hansen Regarding the guest opinion in the Mail Tribune on Dec. 4 by Alan Journet about woody biomass not being carbon neutral: If the premise for an opinion is flawed to begin with, the conclusion will be wrong. If one assumes that live trees are harvested as feedstock for biomass power plants, his argument might hold merit. However, this is simply untrue. Biomass power pla
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'A Gospel Christmas: A Celebration of the Season' Jade Chavis Watt, left, Bishop Mayfield, Lisa Yriarte and Jennifer dePuglia are just part of the lineup of musicians for "A Gospel Christmas." Mail Tribune / file photo Friday Dec 9, 2016 at 2:00 AM Dec 10, 2016 at 12:35 PM The singers and musicians who make up Craterian Music Hall's Dream Band are good friends on stage and off. The group formed in February when Craterian Music Hall Artistic Direc
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Opiate antidote available at Tuesday forum Sunday Dec 11, 2016 at 12:01 AM Vickie Aldous Mail Tribune @VickieAldous Local people who are battling opiate overdose deaths will offer free overdose antidote medication, prescriptions and training during a public forum from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the Medford library, 205 S. Central Ave. The antidote naloxone can quickly reverse the effects of an overdose from opiate drugs, including heroin and prescription painkillers such as
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Dozens of dogs adopted at Saturday SoHumane event Lizzie Montgomery, 13, and Mari Montgomery, 17, consider adopting Doodle Saturday during the Humane Society's pet adoption day at Southern Oregon Subaru in Medford. Mail Tribune / Jamie Lusch Saturday Dec 10, 2016 at 2:15 PM Dec 11, 2016 at 10:03 AM Nick Morgan Mail Tribune @mtcrimebeat Puppy love abounded Saturday as hundreds of local animal lovers flocked to a special event seeking homes for mor
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Diamond Lake makes snow tubing easier Diamond Lake Resort has installed a new conveyor belt to carry snowtubers up the hill. Photo courtesy Diamond Lake Saturday Dec 10, 2016 at 2:00 AM Dec 10, 2016 at 3:51 PM By Lee Juillerat for the Mail Tribune Winter at Diamond Lake is synonymous with cross-country skiing, snowmobiling, backcountry sno-cat skiing and, more than ever, tubing. At 11:30 a.m. Tuesday,  the resort will celebrate the opening o
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Our View: State hospital closure makes little sense Sunday Dec 11, 2016 at 12:01 AM As predictable as Gov. Kate Brown's budget proposal is, with its mixture of sin-tax increases and various spending tweaks, one big budget cut came as a surprise. Brown proposes to permanently close a new state mental hospital in Junction City less than two years after it opened, eliminating 422 jobs and leaving patients with nowhere to go. The $130 million hospital was built to serve "Sou
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FALLOUT The accident at the now-defunct Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania on March 28, 1979, exposed the hazards of nuclear power. The partial meltdown is considered the most serious accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant operating history. AP Photo/York Daily Record, Bil Bowden Sunday Dec 11, 2016 at 2:00 AM Dec 11, 2016 at 8:06 PM By Christine Legere GateHouse Media Fifty years after the U.S. launched a bold plan to inves
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New restaurant group sees wineries as threat Friday Dec 9, 2016 at 4:45 PM Dec 9, 2016 at 5:09 PM Damian Mann Mail Tribune @reporterdm A new restaurant alliance has formed because its founders see wineries that serve food as a growing threat. Chrissy Barnett Donovan, owner of Peerless in Ashland, said the idea for the Jackson County Restaurant Alliance came about after Belle Fiore created a restaurant.  "We were the ones who f
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Catherine "Katie" Annette Hein Friday Aug 19, 2016 at 2:00 AM July 11, 1953 - August 7, 2016 Catherine “Katie” Annette Hein was born July 11, 1953, in Medford, Ore. and died unexpectedly August 7, 2016. Katie moved with her family throughout the northwest, attended Crater High School, and graduated from Dubois High School in Dubois, Wyoming, Class of 1971. She eventually returned to the Rogue Valley, where she married Byron Hein of Central Point.
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Medford council spars over pot greenhouses Friday Dec 9, 2016 at 4:58 PM Dec 9, 2016 at 5:09 PM Damian Mann Mail Tribune @reporterdm Questions about marijuana greenhouses sparked a testy exchange among Medford councilors Thursday night as they confronted a potential loophole in the outdoor grow ban. Mayor Gary Wheeler said he didn't envision a bunch of greenhouses popping up in the city as a way to get around the ban that was appro
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Snow, freezing rain hits Northwest A wintry mix of snow, ice and rain showered fear and excitement in Portland. (Dave Killen/The Oregonian via AP) Saturday Dec 10, 2016 at 2:00 AM By STEVEN DUBOIS Associated Press PORTLAND — A wintry mix of snow, ice and rain continued Friday in much of the Northwest as ice was slow to thaw and new winter weather warnings were issued around the region. In Portland, forecasters expected a couple inches of snow to stick to the groun
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Ashland chiropractor gets probation for fondling client Friday Dec 9, 2016 at 1:46 PM Dec 9, 2016 at 2:21 PM Nick Morgan Mail Tribune @mtcrimebeat An Ashland chiropractor won't have to register as a sex offender after being convicted Thursday of inappropriately touching a young woman during her massage appointment. Mark Evan Machala, 44, was sentenced to three years of probation Thursday after he pleaded no-contest to a misdemeanor sexual ha