Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-29
A used firework discarded in a Dumpster sparked a fire that destroyed the wooden shed housing the trash bin and spread to a nearby apartment complex early Wednesday. Medford Fire-Rescue responded to the two-alarm fire, in the 1000 block of Seroba Court, at 12:41 a.m., according to emergency dispatch records. Crews arrived within seven minutes and had the blaze extinguished in about 20 minutes, said Medford Fire-Rescue Battalion Chief Erin Sawall. All occupants of the six-unit facility made it ou
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-29
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has extended by three months its agreement for the state to continue running Cole Rivers Hatchery on the Rogue River and five other Oregon hatcheries as the sides hash out new operating contracts to raise and release millions of salmon, steelhead and trout. Facing a Friday expiration of its agreement with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Corps opted this week to keep ODFW staff on hand at Cole Rivers to maintain production of 2.8 million salmon, st
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-29
A Klamath Falls man died Thursday evening in White City when the car in which he was a passenger crashed while the driver attempted to elude police. According to a release from Oregon State Police, deputies from the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office were responding to a restraining order violation in the White City area when the incident began at about 8:30 p.m. The release said that when deputies arrived in the area, a citizen flagged them down to report that a Toyota Tundra had been following th
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-29
CRATER LAKE NATIONAL PARK - A 20-year-old man died Tuesday morning at Crater Lake National Park after falling from a cliff ledge into Crater Lake's caldera. The fall was reported at 5:40 a.m. Tuesday between Rim Village and Discovery Point. The man was from Florida, officials said, but the name of the victim was not released pending notification of next of kin. Alec Chapman, a Crater Lake National Park supervisory ranger, said witnesses told park rangers the man had scrambled down inside the cal
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-29
The communities of Hilt and Hornbrook were hit hard by the devastating Klamathon fire. Many ranchers and farmers lost livestock, pastures, stored hay, fence lines and equipment. Taking care of the surviving cattle and horses have left ranching families in desperate need of essentials such as hay and fence posts to feed and secure their animals. To provide some relief to support the farmers and ranchers affected by the fire, a hay drive has been organized. Bales of hay and fence posts of any kind
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-28
It was a quiet morning. I was sitting at the table, eating my mandatory bowl of gruel — I mean, my delicious, fiber-filled, multigrain, plant-protein, good-for-me bowl of cereal — when I glanced out the window and saw that a half-dozen or so pigeons had descended on the backyard to peck away at whatever morsels had fallen out of the bird feeder. “Oh, I love pigeons more than anything in this world,” I said out of reflex, “except oatmeal.” I allowed myself a small chuckle at pulling out a “Sesame
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-29
A young man who sexually abused girls he lured via Facebook has been sentenced to more than six years in prison. Jackson County Circuit Judge Timothy Barnack handed down a sentence of six years and one month Friday, despite Maitland Kahikinaokala Kamaunu's pleas to be let off with community service. "I was young and immature and acted selfishly," Kamaunu, now 21, said of the nearly two years he spent from December 2013 to September 2015 sexually abusing girls he met online. He used Facebook to f
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-28
Loft Brasserie & Bar, tucked away between several other restaurants along Calle Guanajuato behind the Ashland Plaza, has been an Ashland staple since its opening 10 years ago, but somehow my wife, Danielle, and I still hadn’t been to it after moving here four years ago. While the restaurant’s main dining room serves a pricier lineup of “classic Old World cuisine, Pacific Northwest style,” as Loft’s website describes it, the lounge boasts a combination of more affordable bar food and some of the
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-28
NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook says it recently discovered a security breach affecting nearly 50 million user accounts. The hack is the latest setback for Facebook during a year of tumult for the global social media service. In a blog post , the company says hackers exploited a bug that affected its “View As” feature, which lets people see what their profiles look like to someone else. That would let attackers steal the “access tokens” Facebook uses to keep people logged in. Possession of those tokens
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-28
More festivities than ever — including a Portland-based mariachi band, an art contest and a full day of entertainment representing international cultures — will be presented at the 25th annual Greater Medford Multicultural Fair. Look for food, music and dancing from around the world, along with lots of kids activities and cross-culture opportunities from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29, at the fair’s new location — Pear Blossom Park, 312 E. Fourth St., in downtown Medford. Admission and par
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-28
The National Park Service has selected Jeremy Curtis to serve as the next superintendent of Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve. He replaces Vicki Snitzler, who retired in May after 32 years with the Park Service. Curtis has more than 20 years’ experience working with the Park Service. He comes to Oregon Caves from Saguaro National Park in Arizona, where he is currently the chief of maintenance. In that job, he oversees a complex portfolio of locations and park assets, working with all d
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-28
BUTTE FALLS — Rancher Ted Birdseye’s tempestuous relationship with gray wolf OR-7 and his Rogue Pack has been going on since before the arrival of two four-legged alarms to his cattle ranch deep in the recesses of the Cascades east of Butte Falls. Birdseye lost three calves in four days to the Rogue Pack in January. That was before he was given two Tibetan mastiffs bred as “property-attentive” dogs to patrol the boundaries of Birdseye’s 267-acre ranch and sound their menacing alarm at the mere w
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-28
Vicki Graves had no idea hamburgers could lead to heartbreak, or how her story could spread. In four days, a post lamenting the drive-thru she passed in the hours before her son, 33-year-old Matthew Thayer Graves, was shot to death by police at an Eagle Point fast food restaurant had been shared more than 900 times as of Thursday afternoon. “I am so sorry, Matt,” Vicki Graves posted on Facebook. “If I would have stopped, you would be alive now, because you would not have walked there.” Her 714-w
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-28
Curt Ankerberg’s opponents in the race for the Medford City Council have condemned him for his obscenity-filled rants — as well as his tax-fraud problems. “I can’t understand not paying taxes,” said Alex Poythress, one of four candidates running for the Ward 1 council seat. “I can’t understand bullying.” “Engaging in fraudulent behavior is wrong,” candidate Steve Dickson said, adding Ankerberg’s verbally abusive attacks also “wrong.” Poythress and Dickson are running against Ankerberg and David
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-28
Rifle hunters will head en masse Saturday into the forests of Southern Oregon, where they will see solid black-tailed buck deer ratios and a lot of closed signs on private forestlands. That’s a mixed message for hunters coming down with their requisite buck fever for the start of the statewide general rifle season for buck deer. “We’ll probably have a good season,” says Steve Niemela, the Rogue District wildlife biologist for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. “We have good buck numbers
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-28
Medford is centered in Southern Oregon's beautiful Rogue Valley. The small city in nestled at the foot of towering Siskiyou Mountain Range and rolling country hills. In the 1880s, early railroad surveyors set out to connect the Rogue Valley with the railroads that stretched across California. In 1885, the city of Medford was officially incorporated. Three years later, the plot of land that eventually became known as Alba Park was deeded to the city by the railroad company. This park is Medford’s
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-28
One of Oregon’s great hunting traditions may be fading away, and that thing in your hand has everything to do with it. Friday evening may be the last time hunters line up at stores like Black Bird Shopping Center in west Medford to make last-minute purchases of hunting licenses and tags on the eve of big events like the opening of Oregon’s rifle season for deer. The 11th-hour wait likely will disappear when the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife switches over to a nearly paperless, web-based
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-28
One of Oregon’s great hunting traditions may be fading away, and that thing in your hand has everything to do with it. Friday evening may be the last time hunters line up at stores like Black Bird Shopping Center in west Medford to make last-minute purchases of hunting licenses and tags on the eve of big events like the opening of Oregon’s rifle season for deer. The 11th-hour wait will likely disappear when the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife switches over to a nearly paperless, web-based
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-28
I hate to keep harping on the poisonous effects of false stories that surface on talk-radio shows and elsewhere, spreading lies about people and events in the news, but those stories keep bubbling to the surface of the cesspool of deceit that passes for “information” in the internet age. It causes those of us involved in the business of actual, fact-based news to waste precious time debunking the falsehoods. What set me off this week? You may have heard about the California college professor who
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-28
Mercy Flights, Inc. has added a new fixed-wing airplane to its fleet. The new aircraft arrived Wednesday afternoon. The Beechcraft King Air C-90 GTx can land on a shorter runway and carry a heavier load, Mercy Flights officials say. will help deliver patients to Portland more quickly. Communication on-board the craft allows personnel to talk, text, or exchange data with the incoming hospital. Founded in 1949, Mercy Flights is the only nonprofit air medical transport in the state of Oregon. Today