Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-01
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 2018-10-01
A woman is seeking nearly $8.3 million after she says a plastic bag at Albertsons in Central Point tore, causing a large bottle of wine to crash onto her right foot and ankle. Jewel Strite's lawsuit against Albertsons and its Central Point store director is pending in Jackson County Circuit Court, with hearings over testimony and evidence continuing this month. A trial date hasn't been set. Albertsons is arguing Strite is to blame for her injuries, saying she tore the bag when she lifted her gro
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-01
For the last three weeks, the Judge Kavanaugh hearings have been dominating the news cycle. It all began when one woman, Christine Blasey Ford, came forward and alleged Kavanaugh had taken part in sexually assaulting her when she was 15 and the two were in high school. Since then, two other women have come forward with their own allegations against Kavanaugh. Tensions are running high in Washington as the Senate Judiciary Committee has voted 11-10 in favor of advancing Kavanaugh to the Senate fl
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-01
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Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-01
A 69-year-old man from Prescott, Arizona, died Friday afternoon when his truck hit a tree near the entrance to Crater Lake National Park. Oregon State Police said in a media release Monday that Darrell Crittenden was headed westbound on Highway 62 when for unknown reasons his 2001 Nissan pickup veered off the road and struck a tree. The crash occurred at about 2:30 p.m. Oregon State Police troopers and emergency personnel responded to the crash, which occurred at milepost 58. Crittenden was pron
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-01
A simple push on an empty wheelchair injured an FBI special agent while officers were trying to clear a Williams property filled with booby traps reminiscent of an Indiana Jones movie. The agent and three Oregon State Police bomb squad technicians had been acting on a tip and already had found and disarmed several booby traps during an investigation Sept. 7 at 1000 Dreamhill Drive, federal court documents say. When they opened the door of a manufactured home on the 15-acre property, they found a
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-30
Described as a "cold-blooded killer" by the judge in her case, convicted serial killer Susan Monica was sentenced to a minimum of 50 years in prison for murdering two men more than a year apart, dismembering them and feeding them to her pigs in separate acts at her Wimer farm. The 66-year-old Monica sat quietly as jurors in the Jackson County courtroom reeled off unanimous verdicts on two counts each of murder and abuse of a corpse. She was charged in the shooting death and dismemberment of 59-y
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-30
There's nothing more frustrating for a history nut than the smell of a good story that gets lost in a puddle of grass. Over the border, just 33 miles into California, is the Grass Lake Auto Rest Stop. If the average motorist stops at all, they don't stop for long, and odds are history's the last thing on their mind. It's the curious folk, some would say nosey, who always are looking for that slice of humanity that's often hidden away by the side of the road, just a couple of steps farther down t
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-01
Smoke may have been our enemy this summer, and we can take cold comfort from knowing that smoky skies also plagued the Rogue Valley in the late 1800s. “Fires were common in the late 1800s and into the 1900s,” said Jeff LaLande, a consulting archeologist and historian. “We know there was a fair amount fire.” The valley has seen smoky days off and on for two months since a dozen fires broke out after lightning strikes hit the region on July 15, ushering in one of the longest periods of unhealthy a
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-01
Have you ever seen that red spinning salmon sculpture in downtown Medford? It’s called “Salmon Flight.” The Medford Arts Commission purchased it in 2007 from the artist, Richard Jarel. The commission purchased the moving, flying fish for $33,000. Salmon Flight was one of 14 proposals for public art originally to be placed on the roundabout on Siskiyou Boulevard and Highland Drive. The commission decided the sculpture would be best suited for the middle of the fountain in the Mayors Plaza, downto
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-01
A hot smoky summer appeared to achieve some finality Saturday night when we got our first significant rain, but was it enough to end the fires? “The rain on the fire last night has definitely held back any fire activity,” said Koshare Eagle, public information officer for the west zone of the Klondike fire, the largest conflagration of the fires that have scorched Southern Oregon this summer. She said up to three-tenths of an inch fell Saturday night, and crews saw more showers Sunday morning an
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-28
OCEAN OUTLOOK COASTWIDE: Winds up to 10 knots and wind waves of less than 3 feet are forecast for Friday, followed Saturday by winds up to 20 knots and 4-foot swells with a chance of rain. Sunday’s forecast calls for winds backing down to 10 knots and a 2-foot mixed swell. The marine aggregate rockfish daily limit for bottomfishers is back up to five fish. Cabezon must be released unharmed. Rockfish angling is open only inside the 30-fathom line for the rest of the month. ODFW plans to go throug
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-28
By Mark Freeman Mail Tribune They live among each other most of the year — often side-by-side — but when autumn rolls around, hunters and hikers want less to do with each other than Duck and Beaver fans on a fall Saturday. Their mutual distrust is irrational, of course, because both camps have more to fear from a swarm of bees or a wet pooch than they do from each other. Yet hikers and hunters traditionally don’t play well together in the public forests of Southern Oregon during the general rifl
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-28
To have an event listed in Get Out!, email the information to [email protected] National Trails System 50th anniversary Tuesday, Oct. 2: On Oct. 2, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Trails system Act, paving the way for America’s National Trails System. With over 1,200 miles of local trails, our region is home to a bounty of diverse outdoor opportunities. Join us for this visual program to learn more about the history, future and challenges facing our local trail sys
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-28
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh gained the support of a key Republican senator Friday, virtually ensuring his nomination will advance to the full Senate a day after Kavanaugh adamantly denied sexually assaulting Christine Blasey Ford, who insists she’s “100 percent” certain he did. Moments before the panel convened, Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, a member of the committee, announced he would vote to confirm Kavanaugh. Flake said Kavanaugh was entitled to the “presumption of inn
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-28
The swirling mass of small birds grew in number as the darkness deepened. More and more gathered, now numbering in the thousands, until as if on cue, they spilled into the chimney to cluster near the base stacked tightly, clinging to the wall for another night of rest before the long migration to Mexico. Vaux’s swifts, like their cousins, the chimney swift of eastern North America, put on these spectacular displays each year in late August and early September. It’s not entirely clear why they ma
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-28
Quartets by Mozart, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky and Haydn will highlight two performances by Kuss Quartet this weekend at Southern Oregon University. A Berlin-based group, Kuss Quartet features violinists Jana Kuss and Oliver Wille, violist William Coleman and cellist Mikayel Hakhnazaryan. The quartet first came to prominence in 2002 with first prizes from the Deutscher Musikrat (German Music Council) and the ninth annual Premio Paolo Borciani — an international string-quartet competit
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-28
WASHINGTON (AP) — After a flurry of last-minute negotiations, the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination for the Supreme Court Friday after agreeing to a late call from Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona for a one week investigation into sexual assault allegations against the high court nominee. However, it was unclear whether Republican leaders, who have pushed for fast confirmation of Kavanaugh, would back Flake’s call for an investigation or instead would press fo
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-24
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is intensifying its efforts to develop strategies to cope with the “new reality” of smoky skies over Ashland nearly every summer. The problem began about five years ago, with winds blowing smoke into the Rogue Valley from a growing number of forest fires in Oregon and California. Air pollution is a major problem for an open-air theater like the Allen Elizabethan Theatre on the OSF campus. “The first time a play was canceled was in 2013,” said OSF Executive Directo
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-24
In a moving ceremony attended by hundreds, Ashland’s World Peace Flame was lit Friday, with the pledge that Ashland Middle School kids will keep its biofuel oil burning in perpetuity — a symbol of the hope their generation be handed a peaceful world by their elders. The much-awaited ceremony, three years in coming, makes Ashland only the second city in the United States to have such a monument — and the only university in the world to maintain one, said Southern Oregon University President Linda