Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-13
A Medford man died Tuesday evening in a head-on collision on Highway 26, midway between Madras and Mount Hood Village. Oregon State Police and emergency personnel responded to a two vehicle at milepost 74 about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. Kyle Estes, 52, of Medford died at the Wasco County scene. Estes was driving a black 2016 GMC Terrain west in a forested area of the Warm Springs Reservation when a red 2000 Ford E-350 cargo van, driven by Lanny Hawley, 65, of Gresham, crossed into the westbound lane. H
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-12
Today's First Thing podcast touches on these top stories: Hiker killed by cougar, first in Oregon. Full story here . Extreme drug, extreme measures. Full story here . Mail Tribune says: Swab your cheek, save a life. 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 2018-09-13
It's not easy to acquire, then sell, an entire town. But the Caswell family pulled it off by slowly buying land as it went up for sale in a declining timber town in southern Oregon. Without a grand plan and over three decades, they came to own most of tiny Tiller, then, after their parents died, the heirs put their acres up for sale and offers, and worldwide attention, poured in. On Sept. 10, the family announced that new owners took title to Tiller, from the riverfront houses and dusty downtown
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-13
Country music superstar Toby Keith makes a stop on his “Should’ve Been a Cowboy” tour to kick off the Southern Oregon BrewFest with a concert at the Bi-Mart Amphitheater. The BrewFest opens Friday and runs through Sunday, Sept. 14-16, and includes a craft-beer brew garden, a barbecue competition, lots of live music, fun and games. Hours are from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, noon to 10 p.m. Sunday, and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday in the Seven Feathers Event Center at The Expo, 1 Peninger Road, Central Point. Ke
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-14
Brian Gross, who spurred revolutionary cardiac care changes in the Rogue Valley, has been named First Citizen by The Chamber of Medford/Jackson County. The local cardiologist was honored Thursday evening during the Chamber’s annual Excellence in Business Awards at the Inn at The Commons. Gross moved to Medford in 1982, performing his art for 35 years at Southern Oregon Cardiology and Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center before retiring from full-time work in May 2017. For the 69-year-old Gross,
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-13
For more than a century, the small town of Gilbert, Texas, was known as “a little bitty place” with “lots of good will and maybe one small thrill.” It’s that “one small thrill” that causes a huge ruckus in Camelot Theatre’s upcoming musical comedy “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.” It’s the story of television reporter and would-be crusader Melvin P. Thorpe who turns the spotlight on The Chicken Ranch — Gilbert’s infamous brothel. Miss Mona Stangley, the proprietor of the legendary pleasure
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-13
The sight of nature meeting the modern world is an annual September delight for Southern Oregonians. The sky turned dark well before sundown Tuesday as thousands of Vaux’s swifts began a primal dance in the sky. Roughly 200 people pulled out lawn chairs on Hedrick Middle School grounds to watch the migrating birds swirl into a chimney as part of their journey south. In the span of less than half an hour, a handful of seventh-grade volunteers, aided by the Southern Oregon Land Conservancy and Aud
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-14
ZIGZAG — Government hunters in their first day out found no sign Thursday of the cougar blamed for Oregon’s first fatal mountain lion attack, and they plan to widen their search Friday. Two federal Wildlife Service agents rode mules and were joined by four trained tracking dogs over nine miles of cleared trail but found not a shred of evidence of the cougar that killed 55-year-old Gresham hiker Diana Bober or any other cougar, according to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. “This is big
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-13
Government houndsmen from around Oregon are descending upon the Mount Hood National Forest to hunt down and kill the cougar responsible for the first fatal cougar attack in state history. At least three federal Wildlife Services agents with tracking dogs will go into the remote Hunchback Mountain area to capture and kill any cougar they find to see whether it matches animal DNA taken from the body of 55-year-old Gresham hiker Diana Bober, whose body was found Monday. “When we locate them, our in
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-13
Today's First Thing podcast touches on these top stories: The cougar hunt is on. Full story here . Court dunks dredge miners. 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 2018-09-12
Anyone seeking a perfect example of an outrageous pork barrel project should consider the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Elk Creek Dam in the Rogue River Basin. For nearly 20 years, the dam has been sitting unfinished, its deteriorating, roller-compacted concrete uglifying the once-beautiful Elk Creek Valley and blocking passage of Pacific salmon and steelhead. Since 1992, the Corps has spent untold millions trapping migratory fish below the dam and trucking them upstream. According to the Oregon
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-12
Get ready for some foot-stomping cowboys and bustin’-out beauties at “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,” the ‘80s hit show that opened last week at Camelot Theatre in Talent. After 150 profitable years, a small-town house of ill repute is outed by an investigative TV reporter, and a kind-hearted Texas madame has to close shop when her high-profile customers decline to support her. “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” is a fictionalized account of a real brothel’s public exposure. It was firs
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-12
ROGUE RIVER — The 80-year-old Fielder Dam is gone, after more than a week of pounding from heavy equipment. As of Friday all that remained was the fish ladder that fish biologists said severely restricted migration of salmon and steelhead, the impetus for dam removal. When the channel excavation gets done this week, salmon and steelhead migrating up the Rogue River and into Evans Creek should find it easier to get to 70 miles of spawning tributaries. "This is great news for salmon and ste
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-12
In recent years, the growing number of successful removals of obsolete dams on North America’s salmon-bearing streams has become a celebrated symbol of progress, and represents a fundamental change in our relationship with rivers. The communities of the Rogue River Basin have good reason to be proud of our significant contribution to this profound change. Together, we are trailblazing one of the most successful dam removal and river restoration efforts in North America. Our communities ha
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-12
ROGUE RIVER — Two of Oregon's worst wild fish barriers are on track to be jettisoned from Evans Creek this summer under a plan to open as much as 70 miles of prime spawning habitat for the Rogue River Basin's wild salmon and steelhead. Project managers last week garnered a key state fish-passage permit that will help push other state and federal permits forward for removing the crumbling and abandoned Fielder and Wimer dams, which impede migrating wild salmon, including threatened wild co
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-12
Working for days under the leadership of timber framer Robert LaPorte of Eco-Nest, members of Temple Emek Shalom sawed, aligned and pounded giant timbers in place to serve as their sacred sukkah, or humble hut in the desert. The crew, including Rabbi Joshua Boettiger, sweated under a smoky sun Friday, raising the main walls and roof beams with a big coordinated heave-ho. Making timber-frame houses with mortise-and-tenon joinery is an ancient skill predating screws and nails by several thousand y
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-12
GOLD HILL — Residents and local officials will bid a long-overdue farewell Wednesday to one of the biggest fish barriers on the Rogue River in an official "dam breaking celebration" near the city's sports park. Craig Harper, natural resources program manager for the Rogue Valley Council of Governments, said the event, running from 10 to 11:30 a.m., will provide detailed information about the project for neighbors and citizens, offer a birds-eye view of contractors removing the structure, a
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-12
By Damian Mann Mail Tribune Pickleball is about as loud as one person whispering to another person, according to a decibel test conducted by a Southern Oregon Pickleball Association official. David Johnson, director of player development, tested the sound of a pickleball match at Lithia Park in Ashland Monday and found the reading hit 51 decibels, quieter than a household refrigerator and quieter than the people talking on the court. “If I was standing a foot away and whispered to you loud enoug
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-12
Danielle Craig said she doesn’t have enough fingers or hands to count the number of heartbreaking stories about children and adults fighting cancer she’s heard as a journalist. More than a decade ago, the most heartbreaking battle of all was one she witnessed firsthand as her 15-year-old cousin fought and lost her struggle with a rare form of leukemia. “It was a grueling couple of years,” recalled Craig. “It was difficult to watch.” For patients diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma and various bloo
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-12
More than 70 health experts — including dozens in Southern Oregon — are calling on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to make a common drug overdose antidote available without a prescription. The health experts submitted a petition this month, triggering an FDA review of whether naloxone nasal spray, sold under the brand name Narcan, can be sold safely on store shelves rather through a pharmacy. Naloxone quickly reverses overdoses caused by opioid drugs, including heroin and prescription pain