Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-07
OCEAN OUTLOOK COASTWIDE: Winds Friday are forecast to be up to 20 knots with 4-foot wind waves and 8-foot swells. Winds Saturday are expected to back off to 10 knots and 7-foot swells with a chance of rain. Sunday calls for 25 knot winds and 10-foot swells building to 14 feet. Expect a small-craft advisory Sunday. The marine aggregate rockfish daily limit for bottomfishers is five fish. Cabezon must be released unharmed. Rockfish angling is open beyond the 30-fathom line, and it will stay that w
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-07
You know Dasher and Dancer And Prancer and Vixen Comet and Cupid And Donner and Blitzen But do you recall The most bullied reindeer of all? You would have to be as oblivious as the Whos in Whoville not to have heard about the current kerfuffle surrounding the story of Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer — specifically, how what began as (what else these days?) a few comments on social media has become a brushfire that says a great deal ... none of it good ... about America in 2018. Let’s
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-08
Team-bonding trip to Hawaii, what possibly could go wrong? For the Crater boys basketball team, the answer to that is still pending, but it wasn’t all sunshine, beaches and luaus during their four-day trip to Honolulu this past weekend. Coming off their best season in school history, the Comets entertained high hopes yet again this season as they took to Hawaii to open their season. But only two minutes into their first game Friday, Crater now finds itself scrambling a bit after starting p
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-07
In the year since Kimberly Archie founded a nonprofit organization to shed light on the lack of national safety regulations for high school cheer squads, the mother of a former North Medford High School cheerleader has helped place cheerleader safety concerns on the national radar. Archie, who now lives in Riverside, Calif., helped form the National Cheer Safety Foundation in January out of a support group of cheerleader parents called the Bring It On Safety Alliance. The foundation's spotlight
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-07
It’s an area so beautiful that Gary Vequist likes to call it “Little Yosemite.” That may sound a bit overstated, but after being there, it’s not a totally unjustified comparison. Vequist is a hiker and kayaker who’s seen a lot of wild areas during a career with the National Park Service. His “Little Yosemite,” which comes complete with what he calls a miniature Half Dome, is along a trail that parallels a seldom traveled section the Williamson River Cany
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-08
MEDFORD — Wearing dark clothes on a freezing night, Grant Hidy was hardly banking on drivers seeing him and his stalled-out motorcycle Monday on the side of Columbus Avenue, much less anyone stopping to help. Biking home from work in the frigid fog, Hidy’s beard, goggles and hands already were icing up as he mentally calculated his remaining fuel. “I have an issue with my fuel gauge, so I track miles on my bike by looking at the odometer,” he said Thursday. “I thoug
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-08
Lumber Liquidators has opened in the former Northwest Outdoor Store location in Bear Creek Plaza shopping center. The Virginia-based retailer is neither a manufacturing liquidator nor a lumber outlet. The name was affixed in the mid-1990s by founder Tom Sullivan when he launched the discount enterprise that has grown into a nationwide chain of 412 locations with 400 flooring styles and butcher block countertops. Lumber Liquidators historically has set up shop off the beaten path, where rent was
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-07
A substitute teacher died March 9 before school began at Crater High School, the Southern Oregon Education Service District confirmed Tuesday. Michael Bradley, an SOESD employee, experienced a "major medical event" while preparing for classes, Central Point Superintendent Samantha Steele said in a statement. "We’re very, very saddened," said Jack Musser, interim human resources manager for the SOESD. "Unfortunate is an understatement." Musser declined to provide more details about the dea
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-07
Friday, Dec. 7 Jacksonville Carvers: The club meets from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Fridays for carving and coffee at the Jacksonville library, 340 West C St. Admission is free. Call 541-899-5571. Book Nook Sale: A book sale is held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each Friday at the Shady Cove library, 22477 Highway 62. Look for new or gently used books, DVDs and CDs. Proceeds help fund programs, activities and library collections. Call 541-878-2270 or see jcls.org. Color Happy Fridays: Coloring sessions for adul
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-07
Ashland Contemporary Theatre: Tickets can be purchased at ashlandcontemporarytheatre.org, at Paddington Station in Ashland, Grocery Outlet in Medford, or at the door. Call 541-646-2971 for information. ‘Moonlighting 2018’: “Home for the Holidays,” readings of short plays by local playwrights, takes a poignant, humorous and even outrageous look at family and amorous relationships at 8 p.m. Saturdays, Dec. 15 and 22, and 2 p.m. Sundays, Dec. 16 and 23, in the Ashland Commun
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-07
To have an event listed in Get Out!, email the information to [email protected]. Mt. Ashland Opening Day Friday, Dec. 7: Mt. Ashland Ski Area will spin all lifts from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. To celebrate Day One, Mt. Ashland will celebrate with Day Onesie. All guests are encouraged to wear a one-piece suit and join in the parade of first-chair Onesies. The parade of Onesies will line up with ski area General Manager Hiram Towle outside the lodge at 8:30 a.m. and proceed with first chair honors
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-07
CRESCENT CITY, Calif. — A giant coastal redwood tree that typifies the almost mythical Grove of Titans has been rising toward the heavens for about 1,000 years, yet all that effort is in jeopardy from a few years worth of selfies. Left virtually alone in the quiet recesses of Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park near the Oregon/California border, this tree for centuries thrived within a soft forest floor, with thick ferns ringing its base like a giant green skirt in these rainy north woods w
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-07
The parents of a mentally ill man shot to death Sept. 19 by Eagle Point police inside a Carl’s Jr. bathroom have filed a wrongful death suit against the city alleging that Officer Daniel Cardenas and the city are culpable in the death of 33-year-old Matthew Thayer Graves. The lawsuit filed by Michael and Vicki Graves alleges that Eagle Point was negligent in its choice of stun gun color — black, the same as an officer’s gun — and inadequate training of officers, and that
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-07
In the wake of PrimeCare’s ending its contract with Health Net Medicare Advantage plan, there is confusion and angst on the part of some patients. Last week, PrimeCare, a 506-member Independent Physician Association, said it was ending its five-year association with Health Net Medicare Advantage on Dec. 31. However, a Health Net of Oregon spokesman said Thursday, its subscribers have little to worry about. “Recently there has been a lot of misinformation regarding Health Net of Orego
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-07
Left with too little time to prepare meals or too little money to dine out, some holiday shoppers have discovered Lil Orchid Bentos & More offers fresh and hearty Hawaiian-style bento dishes at reasonable prices. Specializing in dishes that consist of rice, meat and macaroni salad, the restaurant, situated at 1850 Biddle Road in Medford, is a location that’s been home to several previous eateries. Lil Orchid welcomes diners inside with sweet smells of teriyaki and a simple and clean interi
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-07
In an age of skepticism, many magicians have bombarded our screens. From Criss Angel to David Blaine and all illusions in between, we’d like to think we have seen it all. Then comes along a pioneer who takes it to the next level. Magician Drummond Money-Coutts (or DMC as he refers to himself) is just such a pioneer. What makes him different? The premise of his show: Tale the tricks of magicians who’ve died while performing those acts and making them bigger, better and more dangerous.
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-07
Oregon’s recreational bottomfishing fleet would be allowed to fish deeper water for a longer period under proposed bottomfishing rules up for a vote Friday by the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission. An increase in the catch-and-release impacts on protected yelloweye rockfish has allowed the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to recommend fishing out to the 40-fathom line instead of the 30-fathom line during the restricted near-shore season, and starting that May 1, a month earlier tha
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-06
Neighbors with concerns about water contamination, odors and waste materials are fighting a proposed slaughter and meat-processing facility at a pig and chicken farm on the outskirts of Ashland. Up to 40 pigs at a time live on the farm, and nearly 20,000 chickens — including those from other growers — could be killed and processed for their meat each year. Pork products, including sausages, would also be made on site. The owners of Uproot Meats say they’ve worked to address con
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-07
Children in foster care have a special place in Angie Galpin’s heart. She grew up in a home that fostered children, and she says she hoped to one day be a foster parent herself. “But it wasn’t in God’s plan,” she said. Instead, Galpin has made it her job to “love on them” in other ways. If she can give them a “special Christmas,” she considers it an honor and a blessing. The nonprofit Every Child Jackson County has joined forces with area chu
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-06
For 26 years, Travis Hampton worked out of patrol offices for Oregon State Police. Year after year, he saw calls and car crashes increase as the disparity between the population and number of troopers grew. Sitting in those offices, he thought about the work he would do if he ever climbed to the top of the ranks. “I always made myself the promise that if I were ever in this position, I would make sure that citizens and legislators knew the dire straits we’re in,” Hampton said.