Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Three neighbors have sued the Ashland Gun Club and the city of Ashland, alleging that lead ammunition is contaminating the environment and stray bullets are striking one of their properties. Cathy DeForest, her husband, Leon Pyle, and Dr. Edward Kerwin filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Medford on Dec. 23. They are represented by attorney Tom Dimitre, who is also chairman of the Rogue Group Sierra Club. The gun club has operated on city-owned land east of the Ashland Municipal Airport sin
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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World Film Week The 29th annual World Film Week will feature 13 films representing 18 countries, including China, Mexico, Germany, Israel, Serbia, Egypt, Norway, Argentina and the U.S. The films will be shown Friday through Friday, Oct. 5-12, at the Varsity Theatre, 166 E. Main St, Ashland. Look for opening and closing night festivities, including Q&As with film directors and after-screening parties. Tickets for the opening and closing night films and parties are $15 and can be purchased at ashl
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Rep. Julie Parrish had a good idea in April, when she proposed shifting state employees' health care into coordinated care organizations, potentially saving the state up to $1 billion. Now, she's pushing a bad idea: filing a referendum to overturn a tax on hospitals and insurance plans that will maintain Medicaid coverage for 350,000 Oregonians and help balance the state budget. The provider tax, approved by majority Democrats with only four Republican votes, would increase the existing tax on h
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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A Medford man was sentenced Tuesday to more than a decade in prison after admitting he shot the wrong man in a dispute over money and later tried to break out of the Jackson County Jail. John Robert Hermann, 32, was sentenced to 130 months by Jackson County Circuit Judge Tim Barnack after pleading guilty to a March shooting that injured a man he thought owed him money. He also pleaded guilty to charges that he devised a scheme to escape from the jail's top floor by climbing down a rope made of b
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Look for salmon returning to Bear Creek at the 14th annual Bear Creek Salmon Festival from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, at North Mountain Park, 620 N. Mountain Ave., Ashland. Enjoy live music preformed by Montana Soul, games and activities, spin-casting lessons, a demonstration of Native American traditional salmon cooking, displays and activities with members from local tribes as well as opportunities to learn about wildlife habit and how to protect it. Refreshments will be available fro
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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TALENT — Oregon’s wine industry responded to the rejection of Rogue Valley grapes by a major California winery with a show of solidarity — and financial support — Thursday morning. Supported by state legislators with a personal interest in the industry, some of the Willamette Valley’s best known wineries pledged their support to local pinot noir growers whose contracts with Napa Valley’s Copper Cane Winery were voided. The California company said it dumped the contracts because of smoke taint, b
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Haunted houses, spooky tales, costume and dance parties — find your favorite seasonal fun with Tempo’s guide to October events. Pheasant Fields Farm: Harvest Festival hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through October at the 20-acre farm, 1865 Camp Baker Road, Phoenix. Activities include a corn maze, hay rides, face painting, pumpkin carving, animal exhibits, a10-passenger cow train, and a country store with local organic produce, handcrafted items, bread, caramel apples, espresso
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Gov. Kate Brown says part of the process of preventing more summers of smoke in Southern Oregon is to make sure the rest of the state knows just how many people were affected and for how long. “It’s critically important that there be some better cross-fertilization,” Brown told a room of regional leaders in tourism, firefighting, wine and theater Thursday morning in Ashland. “I don’t think in Portland — we had some weeks of impact during the Eagle Creek fire, but I don’t think there’s a clear se
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Pegged after the rhythm section of John Mayall’s Bluebreakers — drummer Mick Fleetwood and bass guitarist John McVie — Fleetwood Mac arced from a no-frills, London blues band in 1968 to an iconic rock band still popular in today’s mainstream. The band experienced a lineup of talented musicians, including guitarists Danny Kirwan and Bob Welch, but most notably singers and songwriters Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks, and guitarist Lindsey Buckingham. The group — inducted into the Rock and Roll Ha
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Embracing a 4-year-old boy with local ties, members of the Gold Hill Moose Lodge #178 will serve up barbecue and then some on Saturday in hopes of raising funds to help the boy’s family while he continues cancer treatment. Diagnosed with a high risk form of neuroblastoma, 4-year-old Nathaniel David Curry-Ohlsen lived in Gold Hill until a diagnosis this past year forced the family to relocate to Portland to be closer to doctors at OHSU Doernbecher’s Children’s Hospital. Known for referring to him
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Logos Public Charter School has received a $3.9 million loan from Medford-based People’s Bank of Commerce, which school officials say will enable them to complete construction of its new school. The $6.2 million school is under construction at 1203 N. Ross Lane in Medford. The school has been building a capital fund and saved nearly 40 percent of the cost prior to launching plans for the new building. JB Steel began construction in July on the school designed by architect Gary Caperna, and the s
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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ASHLAND — Police are asking for the public's help in finding a woman suspected of kidnapping her toddler daughter on Wednesday. Shelley Sue Dahlstrom, 43, allegedly entered a house in the 1000 block of South Mountain Avenue — where the girl's father lives — sometime overnight and kidnapped the child, police said. The child will turn 2 in three months. Officials declined to comment on why they believe it's Dahlstrom, and the investigation is still open. "We do have a pretty g
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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CENTRAL POINT — Looking back 30 years after his assignment to the U.S. Army outpost of Fort Lane near Lower Table Rock in the 1850s, Gen. Joseph Lane remarked in his memoir how much the landscape had been changed by settlers' habits of suppressing wildfires. "The hilltops now covered by dense thickets of manzanita, madrone or evergreen brush were then devoid of bushes and trees because of the Indian habit of burning over the surface to remove obstructions to their seed and acorn
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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For all he’s dealt with since coming to South Medford High in his sophomore year, Hunter Bradford has every right to be a little bitter.{br class="hardreturn" /} Foot injuries, back injuries, knee injuries, concussions … the road to being a contributing Panther has been chock full of obstacles in his three years at the school.{br class="hardreturn" /} And yet through it all, Bradford has handled it all with a smile and an opportunistic spirit that one day his time would come.{br cla
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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When evening's last light slants low over the Voorhies mansion roof, the little black birds flitting about EdenVale Winery begin to assemble for their nightly spectacle. The mass of Vaux's swifts that had been zipping around the winery slurping mosquitoes pack themselves into black sheets that dart in unison through the sky, slowly inching toward the mansion's old brick chimney. "They're going to swirl around and tease us," says biologist Karen Hussey, clicking counter in hand, ready to quantify
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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A nearly 10,000-square-foot house built on its owners' visions over 14 years is now on the market for $8.2 million, the owners having moved to Maui before it was finished. Sitting on 700 acres above the Payne Cliffs north of Ashland, the house is the creation of Dr. Genesis Young and his wife, Sulara (previously known as Scott Young and Robin James). He is a hand surgeon and shaman and she is a therapist and daughter of the founder of Raymond James financial services. Genesis Young, in a phone i
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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From the commissioner of the Oregon High School Lacrosse Association to the Roseburg High scorekeeper, their message was the same at U.S. Cellular Community Park on Tuesday: Spread the word. The St. Mary's and Roseburg boys played in the first-ever high school lacrosse match in Southern Oregon, with the Indians' junior varsity squad beating the newly formed and independent Crusaders, 8-3. Ethan Stoner netted the first goal with 10:35 left in the opening 12-minute quarter for the Indians, and Ale
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Restaurant-rich Ashland has more than its share of locally owned coffee shops. Whether it’s a longtime favorite like Rogue Valley Roasting Co. or a newer endeavor like Café 116, Ashland coffee shops offer ambiance and pick-me-ups for any taste. So it probably comes as little surprise that a Southern Oregon original would expand from Jacksonville to Ashland. Open for more than a year on Lithia Way, Pony Espresso brings much of its familiar, from-scratch menu and Longbottom coffee to w
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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My husband and I don't have lunch in Central Point often, but when we do, it's usually at The Point Pub and Grill. High ceilings, rich colors and lots of exposed brick give the historic building at 311 E. Pine St. classic charm, and a friendly staff and a steady stream of patrons make it feel like a neighborhood favorite, even if we don't live in the immediate neighborhood. Now, The Point plans to expand into a new neighborhood in Medford. The Point's lunch menu includes sandwiches, burgers, sal
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-04
A summer camp hosted by ScienceWorks Hands-on Museum in Ashland taught a group of kids the mechanics of aviation last week, and they were able to put their knowledge to use Friday by flying planes out of the Ashland Municipal Airport with the aid of experienced pilots. Six high school and nine middle school students, ranging in age from 11 to 18, took part, according to Summer Brandon, director of education at ScienceWorks. Participants came from the Rogue Valley, Washington and California.