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Night-vision helicopter will tackle Southern Oregon wildfires By Vickie Aldous Updated: May 20, 2021 03:37 PM A A A helicopter capable of tackling fires at night will join the Southern Oregon arsenal this summer. File photo / Coulson Aviation Conditions ripe for bad wildfire season Conditions are ripe for a bad wildfire season in Southern Oregon, but a helicopter with night-vision capabilities will be among the weapons in the arsenal this year. The Oregon Department of Forestry expects to sign a
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Sheriff reveals new details in Rogue River shooting By Nick Morgan Updated: May 20, 2021 06:08 PM A A Jackson County Sheriff Nathan Sickler said the man shot by a sheriff’s deputy Tuesday had a loaded rifle prior to the shooting. Nick Morgan / Mail Tribune A man killed by a Jackson County sheriff’s deputy outside Rogue River had physically assaulted his father, and in the moments leading up to the fatal shooting by police had returned to his father’s home armed with a loaded rifle. The domestic
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Oregon reports five more COVID deaths By Mail Tribune staff Updated: May 20, 2021 03:40 PM A A OHA also reports 603 new cases, drop in hospitalizations The Oregon Health Authority reported five more deaths from COVID-19 on Thursday, including two in Klamath County and one in Douglas County. The Klamath County deaths included a 64-year-old man who tested positive for the illness April 22 and died May 18 at Sky Lakes Medical Center, and a 74-year-old man who tested positive May 8 and died May 17 a
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RCC renews Kemper-Pelle’s contract By Mail Tribune staff Updated: May 20, 2021 01:14 PM A A Cathy Kemper-Pelle The Rogue Community College Board of Education on Tuesday voted unanimously to renew president Cathy Kemper-Pelle’s contract, the fifth time she’s received such a vote since being hired July 1, 2016. In a performance summary letter to Kemper-Pelle dated May 7, 2021, board chair Shawn Hogan wrote: “The Board would like to commend you on the effort and initiative you are putting into the
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Larry Mendte Commentary: Tebow and Kaepernick By John Stoeckl Updated: May 20, 2021 05:48 PM A A What do you get if you mix sports, racism, the social media peanut gallery and lots of disinformation from the misinformed? Well, not always, but this time, you get Larry Mendte to make sense of it all, realize it's not another racist story the mainstream knee-jerks to, and a Commentary with a conclusion that you may choose to use. Either way, let Larry know what you think at @mendte. And as always,
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Podcast: The Literary Gardener - Let’s get the soup on By Rhonda Nowak for the Mail Tribune Updated: May 20, 2021 11:33 AM A A Literary_Gardener.jpg Rhonda Nowak shows gardeners how to get the "soup on" for healthy plants and soil. Mail Tribune · Get The Soup On For Our Garden Plants And Soil Read Rhonda's garden columns and watch her videos at https://mailtribune.com/lifestyle/home-and-garden and read her blogs at www.literarygardener.com .
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PREP ROUNDUP: Crater clamps down on North; South sweeps Updated: May 19, 2021 10:10 PM A A CENTRAL POINT — Defense has been a regular strength for the Crater girls basketball program, but the Comets took it up a notch Wednesday in a 76-13 romp over visiting North Medford. The Comets held the Black Tornado to two field goals in the first half and one in the second half and used a 16-2 surge in the first quarter spurred by junior McKenzie Hirsch to pull away. “We did a really good job putting pres
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Ashland police use of force declined in 2020 By Allayana Darrow May 19, 2021 06:00 PM A A Jamie Lusch / Mail TribuneMatt Carpenter, Ashland Police Department, left and Cooper Kamps, Talent Police Department, walk through downtown Ashland on Wednesday. Police chief dissatisfied with low part-one crime clearance rate The number of incidents in which Ashland police officers used force declined by nearly one-third in 2020 compared to the previous year, according to a report released Tuesday. All use
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They won school board seats. Now what? By Joe Zavala May 20, 2021 05:00 AM A A The May special election concluded Tuesday night and was an eventful one locally, with 17 school board members in the Rogue Valley’s five largest school districts – Medford, Central Point, Eagle Point, Phoenix-Talent and Ashland – securing four-year terms. That seems like a big deal, but is it? In other words, what do school board members actually do? — Typical citizen, Medford (also, Oregon and United States) The tru
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Mail Tribune 100, May 20, 1921 By Alissa Corman May 20, 2021 12:00 AM A A The following news items were drawn from the archives of the Mail Tribune 100 years ago May 20, 1921 MANUAL TRAINING EXHIBIT AT HIGH SCHOOL TODAY The manual training department of the high school will have its exhibit in the basement of the building this afternoon from two to five and on Saturday. This exhibit will be moved to the Chamber of Commerce building, where it can be seen by the public. ... Much interest has been
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Mail Tribune 100, May 20, 1921 By Alissa Corman May 20, 2021 12:00 AM A A The following news items were drawn from the archives of the Mail Tribune 100 years ago May 20, 1921 MANUAL TRAINING EXHIBIT AT HIGH SCHOOL TODAY The manual training department of the high school will have its exhibit in the basement of the building this afternoon from two to five and on Saturday. This exhibit will be moved to the Chamber of Commerce building, where it can be seen by the public. ... Much interest has been
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Local stores hesitate to make changes on mask policy Updated: May 19, 2021 05:01 PM A A Savannah Blake/Mail Tribune - Kelsey Sander, left, laughs as Papillion Rouge Owner Amy Dicostanzo cheers that the newest shipment of clothes just arrived on Wednesday afternoon. Dicostanzo says she is still requiring masks in her store despite the changes made by OHA. While big box stores like Target and Walmart are making changes to their mask policy after the Oregon Health Authority announced on Tuesday tha
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Arborist hired after outcry about excessive tree cutting By AP Updated: May 18, 2021 11:24 AM A A Wildfires in September 2020 burned more than 1 million acres across Oregon. (Oregon Dept. of Forestry photo) PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon is hiring a Pacific Northwest-based arborist to review the state’s removal of trees in wildfire burn areas after recent concerns that the operation has been hasty and excessive. The Oregon Office of Emergency Management announced Monday that Galen Wright has been
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Charles Grodin, 'Midnight Run,' 'Heartbreak Kid,' star, dies By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer Updated: May 18, 2021 12:17 PM A A FILE - Actor/comedian Charles Grodin, appears at a news conference announcing him as host of CNBC's new primetime show "Charles Grodin" in New York on Nov. 15, 1994. Grodin, the offbeat actor and writer who scored as a newlywed cad in “The Heartbreak Kid” and the father in the “Beethoven” comedies, died Tuesday at his home in Wilton, Conn. from bone mar
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Vaccine passports would unleash hell By Lynn Barton May 16, 2021 12:00 AM A A The SARS-CoV-2 virus has killed millions worldwide and upended our lives. We all desperately want to return to normality. The current drumbeat is that vaccine passports are the ticket to getting our lives back. But what if implementing such a system will do the opposite: make a return to normality impossible ever again? First, some background: 1. All vaccines carry risk. In 1986 Congress gave manufacturers immunity fro
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Oregon health officials release updated mask guidance By SARA CLINE The Associated Press/Report for America May 18, 2021 02:50 PM A A PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Officials from the Oregon Health Authority released updated mask guidelines Tuesday, saying that businesses and churches can choose to no longer require masks and distancing for fully vaccinated people, but those places must have visitors show proof of vaccination. In addition, mask requirements are no longer applied to anyone who is outdoors
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Cooler weather ahead this week By Ryan Pfeil Updated: May 18, 2021 01:23 PM A A National Weather Service says temperatures will drop across the region this week. High temperatures Wednesday through Friday are forecast to be nearly 20 degrees cooler in Southern Oregon than Monday’s high in the low 80s, according to the National Weather Service. A sizable area of high pressure was over the area Monday, bringing warm weather, but a cooling front moved through Tuesday morning, said National Weather
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Boatnik is back on By Megan Willgoos/KTVL May 18, 2021 02:44 PM A A KTVL file photo GRANTS PASS, Ore. — The annual Boatnik Festival is back on for the 2021 season after the event was canceled less than two weeks ago. "We were able to get everything into place with permits and all of that, and have got Davis Shows on board, and we're ready to run with it now," Charlie Simons, co-chairman for the marketing committee with the Grants Pass Active Club (GPAC), said. Simons said it is still going to st
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Man identified in fatal White City explosion By Nick Morgan Updated: May 18, 2021 05:12 PM A A An explosion and fire April 21 at a warehouse in White City left one man dead. JCSO photo Furious Talon Eldridge, 24, of Medford, has been identified as the person who died last month in a fire and explosion at a warehouse in White City. Eldridge died at Oregon Health Sciences University Hospital in Portland after sustaining severe injuries the evening of April 21 at an industrial building in the 1500
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Body of California man recovered near Rock Point Bridge By Ryan Pfeil Updated: May 18, 2021 03:50 PM A A Crews search the Rogue River near Gold Hill for a California man who went under May 2. The body of Jesus Flores-Galindo, 21, was recovered Sunday. (JCSO photo) The Jackson County Sheriffs’s Office said a body recovered Sunday in the Rogue River is Jesus Flores-Galindo, 21, of Lamont, California, who went missing earlier this month after jumping in the water near Gold Hill. Sheriff’s departmen