Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-06
Standing at 6-foot-3, with a head that’s so big it’s a little too large for that body, and added to it, a deep voice that can get very loud, Michael Shannon has, for the past couple of decades, been a go-to actor for casting directors looking for someone with a menacing presence. Sure, he had a brief, goofy cameo early in his career in “Groundhog Day,” and he was a good guy in “Midnight Special,” but it’s those darker roles that people remember. T
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-06
This weekend’s annual citywide yard sale could help boost town merchants who have suffered business losses from weeks of smoke, says a supporter of the event. Sale days are Friday through Sunday. “There’s nobody in the restaurants. We need people to come out and eat here,” said Georgene Van Orsow, who heads the clothing section at the First Presbyterian Church yard sale. “I want to have an event for the whole town. I’m just concerned for my city.” Business owners told Mayor Paul Becker tourist t
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-06
Ashland’s one step closer to creating more affordable housing, increasing transportation options and adding jobs after the Planning Commission this week approved the city’s Transit Triangle strategy for development south of town. The strategy includes relaxing some building constraints to encourage developers to build affordable housing in the triangle, bounded by Ashland Street, Tolman Creek Road and Siskiyou Boulevard. The ordinance will now move to the council’s plate Sept. 18 for a first rea
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-06
Can a modus operandi for achievement be spelled out? Maybe not, but Isaiah Sasser can definitely spell out any of the words in the question. The 11-year-old took home his fourth first-place win since February over Labor Day weekend, snagging the victory at the Oregon Statewide Spelling Championship among students in grades first through fifth. “I was hoping I’d win,” he said, sitting at a table outside of Cascade Christian Middle School, where he now attends as a sixth-grader. Isaiah said readin
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-06
A scheme to sell marked-up newspaper subscriptions across the country with mailers that looked like genuine renewal notices from publishers cost consumers tens of millions of dollars over five years, the Federal Trade Commission claims in a lawsuit. The roughly dozen individuals, many of them from the Rogue Valley, and 94 companies at the center of the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Medford in March are believed to have sold 40,855 subscriptions purportedly from 79 newspapers around the
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-06
REDDING, Calif. (AP) — A fast-growing wildfire in Northern California prompted officials Wednesday to close both directions of Interstate 5 connecting California and Oregon and to issue evacuations. The wildfire in Shasta County was reported Wednesday afternoon and within hours was "approximately 500 acres and growing," said Kerry Greene, a spokeswoman with the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, a wilderness area about 200 miles north of San Francisco. Footage posted by KRCR-TV of Redding showed fl
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-07
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Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-06
A Jacksonville woman who’d been out on bail for the past two years on manslaughter charges in the shooting of her uncle is back behind bars — this time on a charge of murder. Aisling Tucker Moore Reed, 28, faces a new charge of murder atop felony counts of first- and second- degree manslaughter in the July 26, 2016, shooting death of her uncle, Shane Patrick Moore, at a rural property outside Ruch belonging to her grandmother. Her family has claimed the shooting was in self-defense. Moore Reed,
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-05
Felony arrests Assault — Julio Hernan Bombela-Barron, 27, of the 600 block of Northwood Drive, Medford. Medford police arrested Bombela-Barron Monday on a felony charge of third-degree assault, and on misdemeanor charges of recklessly endangering another person, second-degree criminal mischief, driving under the influence of intoxicants and reckless driving. He was booked in the Jackson County Jail Monday and released Tuesday because of overcrowding. Weapon Use — Tanja Laverne Smith, 44, of the
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-06
A Tuesday night 911 call from someone who thought Winco’s roof was on fire led Medford firefighters to the actual source of the flames: a grass fire burning a stone’s throw from the grocery store and the nearby Adult Shop. The first call to emergency dispatch came in at 9:26 p.m. from someone who had spotted flames while walking in the grocery store parking lot. From that angle, the fire looked as though it was burning on Winco. “We actually responded as if it was a structure fire,” said Medford
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-06
A friend told me that it's illegal to fish in Oregon using canned corn. Now I've never really considered using canned corn for bait, but is that really a law in Oregon? Not sure why eating corn would be any worse for a fish than eating a slimy worm? — Sylvia, Medford Well now, Sylvia, have you ever tried a slimy worm with a little butter and garlic? OK, neither have we, but it might make it a bit more palatable. We found numerous references and debates online about whether it's legal to f
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-05
You may have seen Skye Savren-McCormick’s story on People Magazine, The Washington Post, Good Morning America, CBS news and many more. Skye played a big role in a wedding as the flower girl, but only after the bride saved Skye’s life with a bone marrow transplant. Skye has spent the majority of her young life fighting cancer. She has had three bone marrow transplants -- two of which came from Hayden Ryals. Hayden asked Skye to be in her wedding as the flower girl. Hayden was very literally Skye'
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-06
February 16, 1931 - January 27, 2017 Otis Henry Bostwick, 85, passed away Friday, January 27, 2017 at his residence. He was born February 16, 1931 in Talent, Oregon to Ruth Fredella Maharry and Henry Otis Bostwick. Otis was the great-grandson of pioneers who settled in Ruch in the 1800s. As a child, Otis and his family moved to Klamath Falls, Ore. In 1948 on a blind date he met Julia Mae Akers. They were married in Klamath Falls in 1949. Otis served in the U.S. National Guard as a Sergeant
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-05
Today's First Thing podcast touches on these top stories: Hugo fire catches feds' attention. Full story here . Police nab alleged trailer park thief. Full story here . 'There Oughta Be a Law.' Full story here . Listen to other Mail Tribune podcasts at www.mailtribune.com/podcasts . Reach web editor Ryan Pfeil at [email protected] or at 541-776-4468. Follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ryanpfeil .
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-05
Calling this summer’s wildfire and smoke “emotionally and financially devastating,” state Rep. Pam Marsh is organizing a three-hour cram-course — the Smoke and Fire Summit — to hear and help shape strategies for forest management, health impacts, economic remedies and climate change. The summit features 15 local and statewide speakers from government agencies, universities, nonprofits and forestry, tourism and business interests, including legislator Marsh, who serves on the House Energy and Env
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-05
State Rep. Pam Marsh has launched a “There Oughta Be a Law” contest to get ideas for potential new laws — or input on which existing laws should be scrubbed from the books. “We hope people will take the opportunity to put down on paper what they were venting about at the dinner table,” said Marsh, a Democrat from Ashland who’s running for re-election against Medford Republican Sandra Abercrombie in November. Marsh said she borrowed the idea for the law contest from a former colleague in the Cali
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-05
Jon Stickley Trio’s textural soundscapes combine his high-speed flatpicking guitar, Lyndsay Pruett’s violin and drummer Hunter Deacon’s jazz beats. Their music is a bit like Darol Anger’s “Republic of Strings” meets Pink Floyd. “Stickley is a super-resourceful acoustic guitarist who uses the instrument in many surprising ways and whose timing is flawless,” wrote Nashville’s Music City Roots’ Craig Havighurst. “Fiddler Lyndsay Pruett puts deep thought into her flowing solos, plus she adds little
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-05
Pastor Murray Richmond’s favorite jazz performer is John Coltrane. The late, enigmatic and spiritual jazz saxophonist and composer recently had a new gem come out, “Both Directions at Once,” which was recorded in 1963 but released in 2018. For Richmond, pastor at First Presbyterian Church in downtown Medford, the title is a perfect metaphor for what his church and life’s work mean. “Coltrane is looking at both sides,” he says, from jazz’s future to its past. “You jump into the sentence, and it’s
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-05
Fearing a greater disaster if it’s left unstopped, federal officials are chipping in on the Hugo Road fire, which already has destroyed two homes and more than a dozen other structures. The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Monday authorized two grants: one to help with firefighting costs at the state’s request, the other for mitigating the chance for loss of life and property from future fires. Crews on Tuesday continued to gain ground on the Hugo Road fire, which ignited 10 miles northwes
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-04
For 44 years in Ashland, Dennis DeBey has been standing, hammer in hand, over his 2,400-degree forge and anvil, creating iron art and fixing the broken stuff of everyday life — wood stoves, gates, rails, statues, candelabras — things that would otherwise end up in the dump in a throwaway society such as ours. Pounding and shaping a large, beautiful iron arch in his Ashland Forge shop on Tolman Creek Road recently, DeBey, 71, smilingly demonstrates that, while blacksmithing does require some musc