Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-18
During the week before Christmas in 1964, Bill Littlefield drove around Shady Cove, offering to help neighbors move their belongings to higher ground. The newspapers, radio and television were warning residents all over the Northwest to brace for a significant flood. Littlefield, now 79, still lives in Shady Cove. In 1964, he ran heavy equipment in logging operations in a job known as a "cat skinner." At one house, Littlefield recalls, "The man asked me how high the water was going to get and I
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-18
The Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest is poised to move forward with an ambitious project aimed at prepping vast swaths of federal land in the upper Applegate River watershed to reduce potential wildfire impacts and improve its ability to adapt to climate change. Forest managers are proposing a series of treatments on 22,000 acres of Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management lands that will include a mix of commercial logging and brush removal and focus heavily on previously logged and rep
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-18
Like everyone else, the vivid Camp fire images beaming into her living room were unfathomable. For Bethany Harper, the heart-piercing reality hit home in more ways than one. The owner of Sethany Knits on East Main Street in Medford grew up in Paradise, California, a community that was virtually wiped off the map by hellish flames last week. Her mom’s home is gone, so is her father’s residence. Had her brother not set his alarm earlier than normal on Nov. 8, when fire engulfed the town of 27,000,
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-18
As sunshine teases Southern Oregon with visions of summer, some already are feeling the first cool cravings for frozen yogurt, ice cream and gelato. Frozen yogurt is by no means a novelty anymore, but Yogurt Hut's self-serve yogurt buffet is. The new, independent yogurt shop was established by George and Susan Orrego at 140 Lithia Way in Ashland in May 2009. Within a year, the couple had opened a second branch in Medford, at 1345 Center Drive. Intrigued by rumors of the "hip" new frozen yogurt s
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-19
Two inches. Tops.That was all the clearance Dan Dressler had when he carefully drove the 106-inch tall, 12,000-pound Tucker Sno-cat into the belly of a U.S. Coast Guard C-130 Hercules transport plane Tuesday morning at the Medford airport. The cargo bay ceiling is precisely 108 inches above the floor. But Dressler, sales and service representative for the Medford-based Tucker Sno-cat Corp., had a bit more elbow room in the 105-inch wide bay. The Sno-cat with its four tracks was only 98 inches wi
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-18
PARADISE, Calif. — Viewing the destruction of a wildfire that killed more than 70, with 1,000 people still unaccounted for, President Donald Trump said the federal government will help California recover from the devastation and work to prevent future catastrophic wildfires. Trump toured the rubble of Paradise, where more than 10,000 structures were lost, with Gov. Jerry Brown and Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom. Trump said he was stunned by the destruction. “Hopefully, this will be the last of these be
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-18
Five years ago, San Francisco was transformed to Gotham City, making a wish come true for 5-year-old Miles Scott of Tulelake who spent the day dressed as Batkid, battling villains alongside Batman. Nov. 15, 2013, was a day to remember, one that lured more than 16,000 volunteers, a City Hall crowd of 20,000, more than 555,500 tweets, comments from 117 countries, a video from President Barack Obama, a special edition of the San Francisco Chronicle with front-page coverage, and the inspiration for
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-18
SALEM — Tax hikes on beer, cider and wine are “off the table,” Gov. Kate Brown said Friday. The Oregon Health Authority wanted to increase taxes on beer, wine and cider by 10 percent, which officials said could raise nearly half a billion dollars over two years. The agency also proposed significant tobacco tax increases as a strategy to deter tobacco’s use and improve public health. The Health Authority’s proposal became public two weeks before Brown was re-elected. Her office at the time declin
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-18
Larry Mendte finds the silver lining in the media circus that was Kanye's visit to the white house. Larry Mendte is a television, radio, online and print anchor and reporter and a multiple Emmy-award winning commentator based in the New York area. His commentaries have been syndicated around the country. He has reported around the country since starting at KIEM in Eureka, California.
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-17
Secretary of State Dennis Richardson privately notified top Oregon officials earlier this summer that he had been diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive and fatal form of cancer, according to two state executives. The Republican from Central Point is first in line to succeed the governor. Richardson declined comment and didn’t respond to written questions sent to his office and personal email accounts. Debra Royal, Richardson’s chief of staff, responded on his behalf to confirm that Richards
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-17
Chelsea Rose cupped tiny fragments of animal bones in her hands — evidence from a siege that saw settlers hunkered down in a makeshift fort on the Oregon Coast for a month with virtually no food.  "The bones are chopped to bits. They were cooked to extract every ounce of marrow and nutrition. This right here is what starvation looks like," said Rose, a historical archaeologist with the Southern Oregon University Laboratory of Anthropology. Professionals from the lab are working with
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-16
PARADISE, Calif. — Ernest Foss was a musician who gave lessons out of his home when he lived in San Francisco, where an amplifier that ran the length of a wall served as the family’s living room couch. Carl Wiley refurbished tires for Michelin. Jesus Fernandez, known as “Zeus,” was described as a loving father and loyal friend. They were among the first victims identified in the aftermath of the deadliest, most destructive wildfire in California history, an inferno blamed for at least 48 deaths,
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-17
Paying homage to a local landmark has once again paid off for gingerbread baker Kate Sharbono. Sharbono’s entirely edible rendition of Ashland’s Allen Elizabethan Theatre took center stage at this year’s GingerBread Jubilee. It’s the third consecutive year that Sharbono, of Eagle Point, has claimed the Jubilee’s Best in Show title and $1,000 grand prize. In 2016, Sharbono wowed judges by reconstructing — in gingerbread — her hometown’s beloved Butte Creek Mill, which burned on Christmas 2015. “I
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-17
A short distance from Railroad Park in northwest Medford, a warren of trails along Bear Creek leads to a cluster of campsites used by people. Those illegal sites often mean illegal campfires, which pose a threat to nearby structures and to the firefighters who sometimes have difficulty gaining access to them. “It is a pretty dangerous situation for our guys,” said Greg Kleinberg, fire marshal with Medford Fire-Rescue. “We’ve had people jump out with a knife. We see needles. It’s kind of a hazmat
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-17
Shiloh Peters wanted to teach her students math they would actually need to know to survive, she said. “During the five years I taught, I often felt like I was not teaching math skills that would be the most useful for students, such as financial math,” Peters said via email. She joined the staff at Rogue Credit Union to bring that interest to fruition — and a year later, the team was recognized with a national award for financial literacy for the curriculum it designed. “(The Credit Union Natio
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-17
"If we’re not intentional about the way we’re going to choose to show up in the world and the things we’re going to give our attention to, then we’re just operating out of default and it’s just constant reaction, reaction, reaction. That’s where we end up looking back on the days and years with regret." Nicola Ries Taggart is the creator of the new Calm the Chaos journal. The journal is available on Amazon and in the store Anthropologie. She is a life, leadership and love success strategist, coa
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-17
An 8-year-old Eagle Point girl missing since August has been located safe in Arizona, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office reported Friday. Tabatha Clancy-Wood was found with her mother, Kelly Clancy, in a shelter in Phoenix, police said. Kelly Clancy was arrested by Phoenix police for custodial interference, a sheriff’s release said. Tabatha’s father, Adrian Wood, was expected to pick up his daughter Friday from child welfare authorities in Phoenix, the sheriff’s office said. Clancy, 46, reporte
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-17
An 8-year-old Eagle Point girl missing since August has been located safe in Arizona, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office reported Friday. Tabatha Clancy-Wood was found with her mother, Kelly Clancy, in a shelter in Phoenix, police said. Kelly Clancy was arrested by Phoenix police for custodial interference, a sheriff’s release said. Tabatha’s father, Adrian Wood, was expected to pick up his daughter Friday from child welfare authorities in Phoenix, the sheriff’s office said. Clancy, 46, reporte
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-16
OCEAN OUTLOOK COASTWIDE: A small-craft advisory is in effect through Saturday morning. Forecasts call for 5-knot winds and swells up to 7 feet in the Brookings area Friday, followed by much of the same Saturday. Sunday’s forecast calls for 5-knot winds and swells to around 5 feet. 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 way for the rest of the year as lon
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-16
We love ourselves a great tragedy. Oh sure, history is written by the winners and happily-ever-after is the stuff of fantasy — but give us misery, and we’re moths to the projector light ... particularly when it’s told, retold and sold through the lens of those who have loved and lost. Particularly the lost part. It happens to all of fiction’s greatest doomed star-crossed. Romeo and Juliet both wind up dead. The love story of Jack and Rose endures, even after one of them dies. Joanie and Chachi,