Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-16
After a day of rushing around (me) and working in dusty, cramped spaces (my husband), topped off with flu shots for the kids, we prescribed ourselves some serious comfort food. In large swaths of the United States, that genre is built on such stick-to-the-ribs recipes as meatloaf, mashed potatoes, chicken-fried steak and macaroni and cheese. Those classics, with a decidedly Southern sensibility, gave rise nearly a half-century ago to Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, among the chain restaurants
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-16
In the last 20 years or so, we’ve had the opportunity to float some of the great rivers in the U.S. — the Colorado, Rogue and Salmon among them. Our search for something different took us to the Tatshenshini and Alsek rivers, which are large glacial rivers in Canada and Alaska, which gave us sunshine, heat, fog, glacial chill, rain and icebergs. After gathering in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, we drove to our put-in at Dalton Post, a historic trading post. From here it would be 150 river miles to
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-16
After soaking in the panorama atop Mount McLoughlin for the first time, Pasha Jacobsen anticipated his nearly 4,000-foot descent and eyed what he thought was an easier way down than the boulder-strewn trail. “Looking down the side, it was all nice and gravely,” says Jacobsen, 48, of Talent. “I was going to go down the easier way and then cut left over to the trail, but I totally lost my reference point. In minutes I was off track about two miles. “It was real foolish,” he says. As has happened w
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-16
To have an event listed in Get Out!, email the information to [email protected] Native Plant Society hike Saturday, Nov. 17: Oregon Caves National Monument botanist John Roth will lead a free hike to Whiskey Creek in the Illinois Valley. The group will walk several hundred meters on and off trail along Whiskey Creek to look at endemic plants and investigate the local geology. The group will also see which plants are growing in a small fen nearby. A carpool will meet at the Shop Smart pa
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-16
I have never had a ballot signature challenged, but it strikes me that a layer deeper, there could be a problem. When I turned 65 and registered for Medicare, I traded my given middle name for my maiden name. I then started signing only my first initial and my last name because my whole new name fits in zero computer forms. I assume that since my ballots have never been singled out for questions, I'm signing correctly, and that the paperwork I filed when I signed up for Medicare has gotten into
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-07
By Jan Roberts-Dominguez for the Mail Tribune I cook according to mood and hankerings. This isn’t such a complicated issue when each season settles into its groove. Mid-summer menus? Nightly hits of fresh corn, herb-laced tomatoes and grilled peppers are expected. Anything that produces powerful and dynamic meals in the shortest amount of time. Once autumn hits its stride, I’m on to plump and juicy heads of roasted garlic, creamy mashed potatoes with caramelized onions, and apple cobbler. Howeve
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-07
Editor's note: This is Part 1 of a five-day series on devastating wildfires and their effects on Southern Oregon done in partnership with KTVL Channel 10. After back-to-back, smoke-plagued summers, Southern Oregon’s reputation as an outdoor Mecca is at risk. Television reports and digital media images have left little to the imagination. Air quality in Jackson County deteriorated to the worst in the nation three days’ running in July, making outdoor recreation nearly impossible for both locals a
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-06
WASHINGTON (AP) — The bitterly polarized U.S. Senate narrowly confirmed Brett Kavanaugh Saturday to join the Supreme Court, delivering an election-season triumph to President Donald Trump that could swing the court rightward for a generation after a battle that rubbed raw the country's cultural, gender and political divides. The near party-line vote was 50-48, capping a fight that seized the national conversation after claims emerged that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted women three decades ago
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-06
Sho Sugita’s long road to the world of historical poetry translation began in Ashland, followed by stops in Chicago, New York and his current home of Matsumoto, Japan. On Wednesday, Sugita’s journey will come full circle when he walks through the doors of Southern Oregon University’s Schneider Museum of Art to read from his latest translation. Sugita, who left town not long after graduating from Ashland High School in 2004, will be on the third stop of a month-long coast-to-
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-06
Fall has arrived and along with it reports of aggressive deer in Ashland. For one family in Ashland, that aggression has turned into an ongoing threat from one particular deer. Alex Strouf says in the most recent incident, she was charged by the deer while walking her 3-week-old baby and two Labrador retrievers near North Mountain Park. While the deer stopped short, it wasn’t the first time the same deer has charged her, she said, noting it has stalked her on four different occasions, even comin
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-07
Christine Hince bought her dream farm near Talent in 2006. But the housing crash two years later wiped out almost half of its value, leaving the property — two homes on 3 acres — financially underwater and Hince facing the prospect of foreclosure. Today, however, thanks to a new pilot program for Jackson and Deschutes counties, Hince still has her property and a mortgage that's been reduced from $364,000 to $230,000. Called the Loan Refinance Assistance Pilot Project, it buys trouble
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-07
EAGLE POINT — Rain was plentiful across the Rogue Valley on Wednesday afternoon. Come nighttime, goals were raining down for the Ashland High girls soccer team. Behind first-half deluge of goals, Ashland was able to put its six-game winless streak to bed, as the Grizzlies rolled to a 7-2 blowout win over Eagle Point to pick up their first Midwestern League victory of the season. “Definitely, it’s always a nice thing,” Ashland head coach Eric Wolff said when asked about the Grizzlies’ season-high
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-06
I am puzzled. Where exactly is the rain in Jackson County measured? When I compare it to mine (I take measurements in two different areas of my yard), often it varies quite a bit. The most recent rainfall was so out of agreement with the figure in the back page of Section A, it caused me to wonder. If I remember correctly, the Tribune listed just over 0.2 inches, while I measured more than an inch. I live beyond the point where McAndrews and Hillcrest join. — Carolyn, Medford We love a good myst
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-07
Gregory Paul Harlow, 25, passed away January 22, 2015, in Pasadena, Calif. Gregory's Memorial Service and Celebration of Life will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, February 28, 2015, at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 140 North Oakdale Street, Medford, Ore. Gregory was born in Walnut Creek, Calif., moving to Southern Oregon at age five. Gregory graduated from St. Mary's High School in 2008 and the University of Oregon in 2013, Summa Cum Laude. Gregory was a graduate student at the California Institu
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-07
After searching for close to a week, rescuers located the body Friday of a Northern California man who went missing in a remote area of the Klamath National Forest during a hunting expedition. Jason Cantrall, 46, of Crescent City, California, was found about 1:15 p.m. Friday by Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue personnel during a search through the Beaver Creek area in Northern California, according to a release issued Friday evening by the sheriff’s office. Cantrall had last be
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-05
TALENT — The 13-year-old girl didn’t stand a chance. The boy, big and strong and fast, hit her with the force of a Mack truck. She crashed to the ground, her senses sent on a joy ride, her tailbone aching. If she wanted to cry, she didn’t. This version of the “Quarterback Princess” bounced up and returned to the game. Lola Lumbreras, a Talent Middle School eighth-grader and the football team’s starting signal caller, is wrangling with convention. “It was very important to not just lay there,” s
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-05
WASHINGTON — A deeply divided Senate pushed Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination past a key procedural hurdle Friday, setting up a likely final showdown on Saturday in a spellbinding battle that's seen claims of long-ago sexual assault by the nominee threaten President Donald Trump's effort to tip the court rightward for decades. The Senate voted 51-49 to limit debate, defeating Democratic efforts to scuttle the nomination with endless delays and moving the chamber toward a climax of a fig
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-05
If given a list of the films of 1968 and asked to choose the one whose impact was still being seen in the pop culture landscape 50 years later, nearly all of us would give the same answer: “The Love Bug,” that timeless Disney classic starring a VW named Herbie that charmed audiences and was one of the year’s two box office hits that starred a car … the other being the Mustang in “Bullitt.” OK, maybe not. Maybe you’re the sort of contrarian that would send Herbie to the curb in favor of the less-
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-05
One of the Rogue Valley's largest tech employers is moving its headquarters to Jackson County. Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions, which manufactures cleanroom particle monitors for a global market, announced Monday it will relocate its front office to Medford from Fremont, California, shifting more than two dozen executive and management jobs. The announcement was made at the Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions' Connect 2017 conference at Seven Feathers Casino in Canyonville. Founder Tae Yun Kim said sh
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-05
Revisit “Kornfield Kounty” when Rogue Valley Harmonizers presents “Hee Haw and Harmonies,” a salute to the long-running CBS country and western-themed variety show. With a flair for cornball comedy, the Harmonizers will include “Where, Oh Where, Are You Tonight?” — made popular by “Hee Haw’s” Gordie Tapp and Archie Campbell as “Pfft, You Were Gone.” “It was a gag song,” says Harmonizers’ chairman Michael Biggs. “The TV show would have different guest stars sing it, including Johnny Cash, Loretta