Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-05
The Chattooga River is the "Deliverance" river. It is the mythical Cahulawassee River that novelist James Dickey described in his 1970 novel. It was popularized in the 1972 whitewater back-country movie with Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight, and Dickey playing the portly local sheriff. The Chattooga is one of the top paddling streams in the East and one of the prettiest and least spoiled escarpment rivers in the Southeast. A 57-mile stretch of the Chattooga is part of the protected national wild and
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-06
Southern Oregon’s growing contingent of hemp growers are harvesting their fields and drying their crops. And with demand for hemp booming, the market looks promising. But some farmers wonder what the future holds. “This year, everybody got into it,” said Chris Bourne, an entrepreneur and familiar face on the Southern Oregon hemp scene. “Everybody and their mother was like, we’re going to grow hemp this year, because there’s a lot of money to be made.” In years to come, however, that might be les
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-06
ASHLAND — When Angie Panter needs a quick respite from the urban world, she ventures to her little place of heaven at Pilot Rock along the Pacific Crest Trail. It’s just a few turns off Interstate 5 at the Siskiyou Summit, but it’s the PCT, and just a short time on it resonates with her. “It’s one of my favorite parts of the PCT,” says Panter, of Eagle Point. “It’s an opportunity to get outside and touch nature when you’re not able to get to the backwoods of a wilderness area.” The Pacific Crest
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-06
A 20-year-old Medford man will serve more years behind bars than he’s yet lived after admitting to bludgeoning his juvenile girlfriend’s father to death in 2017. Gavin Curtis MacFarlane was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison Friday in Jackson County Circuit Court after pleading guilty to murder and murder conspiracy charges in the death of 50-year-old Aaron Friar of Medford. In the predawn hours of Oct. 2, while Friar slept on his couch, MacFarlane killed him with a baseball bat at his home
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-06
WHITE CITY — Manufacturers plagued by rising labor costs or having difficulty in filling positions might take a look at robots. Collaborative robots can perform menial, repetitive and even undesirable tasks, allowing employees to tackle more promising roles. Oregon Manufacturing Extension Partnership ran an articulated robot through its paces Friday morning during the Southern Oregon Manufacturing Summit at Rogue Community College. Robots may be particularly desirable if a labor shortage makes i
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-05
Junior midfielder Kam Calhoun scored three goals, including one on a long-range play late in the contest, to lead South Medford to a 4-1 Southwest Conference boys soccer victory over visiting Grants Pass Tuesday. The Panthers (5-1-3, 3-1-2 SWC) took a 2-0 halftime lead and pushed it to 3-0 before the Cavemen scored on a penalty kick in the 60th minute. Cade Anderson did the honors for Grants Pass (1-7-1, 1-5). Calhoun then finished it off in the 75th when he controlled about a 70-yard boot by Ca
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-05
Could you please settle a disagreement I have with a friend? Is there a statute of limitations on someone who has lost their driver's license for not paying a traffic ticket? My friend says there is, and that after a certain amount of time, the ticket has to be written off and then the person can get their license back. I disagreed and said there is no limitation, and the person cannot get his or her license back until the tickets are paid. Who is correct? — Kathy M., Medford Nice question
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-06
A Shady Cove woman died Thursday morning after her car crashed into a stopped tow truck on Highway 62 near milepost 16, according to a release from Oregon State Police. Argelia Avina, 45, was traveling west when she reached two tow trucks stopped in the right westbound lane. One tow truck was hitching up a disabled vehicle and the second was stopped behind it, with the driver directing traffic to merge into the left westbound lane. Avina did not shift out of the right lane and her 2006 Chevy Ave
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-05
The Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail turned 50 on Tuesday, Oct. 2. We can thank President Lyndon B. Johnson. Come out and discover the trail and its history with Oregon Outdoors host Mark Freeman in this week's segments. Watch below. Part 2 is here .
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-05
Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso meet in 1904 in a Parisian cafe, just before the scientist transforms physics with his theory of relativity and the painter sets the art world on fire with cubism, in Steve Martin's comedy "Picasso at the Lapin Agile," running through Nov. 11 at Oregon Cabaret Theatre in Ashland. Ashland New Plays Festival: See ashlandnewplays.org. Fall Festival: Ashland New Plays Festival will present staged readings of four new plays: “The Excavation of Mary Anning” by Ian Aug
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-05
OCEAN OUTLOOK COASTWIDE: Winds up to 10 knots and swells up to 6 feet are forecast for Friday, followed Saturday by winds up to 20 knots and 5-foot wind waves with a slight chance of showers all day. Sunday calls for winds up to 25 knots with 8-foot swells. 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 long as rockfish quotas rema
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-05
To have an event listed in Get Out!, email the information to [email protected] Talent Harvest Festival runs Saturday, Oct. 6: The annual 5K and 10K runs start at 8 a.m. at the Talent Skateboard Park (parking on Front Street by the tracks and Main Street above tracks). The 5K is an out-and-back with gradual inclines and declines, while the 10K begins like the 5K and continues on to a challenging, hilly course. For details, see https://thedriven.net/cs/southernoregonrunners/talent-harves
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-05
Artist Jolene Rose Russell participates in many street-painting festivals throughout California and the rest of the country where artists create huge works of art in chalk on pavement. “While they are temporary, these street paintings are among my most prized pieces,” she says. The Sacramento, California-based, award-winning multimedia artist will create a large-scale chalk painting for the 16th annual Art Along the Rogue, an art and music festival that will run Friday through Sunday, Oct. 5-7,
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-05
A high-speed chase from Central Point to Phoenix in September sparked a multi-agency burglary investigation that has led to two arrests and thousands of dollars worth of property being recovered. Michael Spencer Matthews, 29, of Medford, and Demaris Nicole Lightle, 24, of Jacksonville, face multiple burglary and theft charges stemming from a string of smash-and-grab thefts over the past few months that hit victims ranging from Ashland businesses to White City shoppers, according to documents fil
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-05
We live in a corner of the world that boasts botanical treasures found nowhere else on the planet. This unique natural heritage is woven into the culture of the region. From the wildflower festival in Jacksonville, to Woody Guthrie’s songs of “redwood forests,” to huckleberry pie at Beckie’s Cafe on the way to Crater Lake, the amazing botany of our area has long been a source of pride and pleasure. One of the least-known horticultural wonders in our neck of the woods is the Brewer (or “weeping”)
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-05
Gov. Kate Brown and state Rep. Knute Buehler hit their differences hard Thursday night in a televised debate in Medford, making their pitch to voters in the race for governor on Nov. 6. As televised on KOBI Channel 5, they raced through one hour of questions on education, wildfires and the homeless, often referring back to specific problems facing Southern Oregonians. Republican Buehler and Democrat Brown had faced off in another debate in North Portland Tuesday, hitting on some of the same issu
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-05
A motel tenant has been arrested on accusations he intentionally caused a fire that significantly damaged the upper level of a motel near downtown Medford earlier this week while people were inside. Jesus Ernesto Garcia, 34, was arrested Thursday on a felony charge of first-degree arson related to the Tuesday afternoon fire that heavily damaged the upper levels of the Sis-Q Motel in the 700 block of South Riverside Avenue. Six people were inside the motel when Garcia allegedly set fire to his mo
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-05
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Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-04
The winsome wines of Southern Oregon are gathering acclaim far beyond the Cascades and Siskiyous. An industry once summed up by a collection of one-offs in Ashland, Cave Junction, Roseburg and Ruch during the 1970s now boasts 121 wineries and 226 vineyards on 5,886 planted acres in Jackson, Josephine and Douglas counties. The fruit of the region's vines has drawn accolades from the Atlantic to Pacific, capturing the hearts of wine columnists and judges. Reports in the New York Times, Sunset maga
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-04
Feeding your family a good meal is easy. Just go to the grocery store and empty out your pocketbook. But what if you aren’t so flush? What if your wallet is looking a little lean? What if times are hard and money is short? Everybody has to eat, right? And it is better to eat good food than bad. So I decided to cook some delicious and even elegant meals to feed a family of four for less than $7. It is not difficult to do; all it takes is a bit of imagination and an inexpensive protein