Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-03
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival's "Julius Caesar" begins with a manic and joyful mob stamping and shouting in militaristic precision, Caesar walking among them, dressed in white. Shakespeare's powerful political piece spans the stage and the centuries, the notion of a man so loved by his people, so envied by his senators, that he had to die. Julius Caesar is played by Armando Duran, an actor with 18 seasons at OSF. He’s the eponymous center of the play, but it’s Caius Cassius,
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-03
There’s pizza. And then there’s wood-fired pizza. Every now and then, I’m lured from our regular pizzeria by the promise of a smaller, even less elaborate pie that redeems itself with incomparably crunchy crust and that telltale whiff of wood smoke. Among several wood-burning ovens in the Rogue Valley, Rosario’s is my go-to in Medford for pies that come out in mere minutes compared with the region’s busier pizza establishments. The spectacle of our pizza’
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-03
Excuse my language, but it really was a dam good snowshoe trip. And, no, that's not a misspelling. A recent snowshoe trip that took our group along a portion of the Klamath River featured a great view of the Klamath River Dam. We began our dam fine outing in Keno, a community of about 3,200 people 12 miles west of Klamath Falls along Highway 66. According to Oregon Geographic Names, Keno had several names — Whittle's Ferry, Klamath River, Plevna and Doten — but was eventually named
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-03
You won't hear many complaints from Rogue Valley orchardists and vintners about the wet winter. Medford already has exceeded the 18.35-inch annual average precipitation total with 21.04 inches since Oct. 1, when the water year began, and is 8.31 inches above the normal count for this time of year. "It's a real positive when you get some early water," said Doug Lowry of Associated Fruit in Talent. "The winter weather is good for controlling insect populations and getting trees a lot of water." Pe
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-03
Erickson has received an order to build its first S-64 Aircrane in eight years. The Portland-based aviation firm, whose manufacturing, maintenance and development operations are in Jackson County, is building an S-64E for the Korea Forest Service. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but in 2012 Erickson paid $21.75 million to reacquire an Aircrane it built for San Diego Gas & Electric Co., in 2009. More than half of Erickson's nearly 700 employees work at one of three Jackson County sites. Aft
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-03
I always look forward to starting the summer festival season with Medford Beer Week in June, but this winter has given fans of local beer plenty to celebrate, with new breweries bubbling up over the past few months. Judging from the crowds, everybody knows about The Ram Restaurant & Brewery and Common Block Brewing Company, popular spots for food and drink. The latest addition, Osmo’s Alehouse at 522 S. Central Ave., Medford, doesn’t serve food, but it does offer interesting beers,
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-03
The Great War was at best a romantic notion for Rogue Valley residents in 1917. At worst, it was a visitation of horrors unknown on the Western world. Yet from the moment President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war on Germany 100 years ago this week, Jackson County residents backed their government en masse. Mail Tribune Editor George Putnam praised the president's call to action in an editorial. "For the many splendid paragraphs in President Wilson's noble message calling t
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-03
With its mission to develop and produce new plays and provide a forum for artists, and to advance the Latinx theater movement at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and across the nation, OSF presents its fourth biennial Latinx Play Project. Latinx, pronounced "la-teen-ex," frequently pops up in social media in lieu of such identifiers as Latino or Latina. It's a gender-neutral alternative that allows room for intersecting identities of Latin American descendants. The 2017 event kicks off an expande
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-03
WHITE CITY — While a recent mask-making session might have seemed like friends laughing together and commiserating over the trials of pre-teen years, there was an underlying focus on self-reflection and encouragement of an anti-bullying environment at a critical time for students. The Wednesday after-school workshops at White Mountain Middle School give students a chance to reflect on how they see themselves and how they think they are seen by others. The workshops are a collaboratio
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-03
Wowed by Wamba Juice & Deli’s winning mulligatawny soup at this spring’s Smudge Pot Stroll, I vowed to work the downtown deli into my lunch rotation more often. Chef and owner Sage Taylor and her crew prepare soups, salads, sandwiches and, of course, juices and smoothies with care, using local products when possible. The eclectically homey atmosphere at the little restaurant at 207 W. Eighth St., Medford, welcomes those grabbing a quick bite and those wanting to linger. The mulliga
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-03
She grew up in a mansion with a giant fir-studded yard above Ashland, between Mountain Avenue and Elkader Street, owned since the 1940s by her late father, noted Ashland lawyer Sid Ainsworth. But one day recently, Lynnea Forderer, Ainsworth's daughter, walked by the site of the old house and found it gone, razed to the foundation, and many of the big trees missing. On her Facebook, she wrote, “It was the only house whose property spanned from one street to the other, above the University.
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-03
Author and historian Jan Wright will talk about her more than 20 years of research on John Beeson, a Rogue Valley pioneer at odds with many of his fellow settlers, and her plans to write a book on him in the year ahead. Wright's presentation is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 25, at the Talent Historical Society, 105 N. Market St., Talent. “It’s surprising how much information there is on John Beeson,” said Wright. “Beeson was very well known back East. He
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-03
PORTLAND — Playwright Lynn Nottage premiered her play "Sweat" in 2015 as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's "American Revolutions" series exploring key moments in U.S. history. With the announcement Monday that the play received the Pulitzer Prize for drama, Nottage has made U.S. history as the first female playwright to win the prestigious award twice. "Lynn Nottage is one of our nation's great dramatists, and we are so proud to see her become the first woman to have won two Pulit
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-03
Wok Star took the top prize in this year's Smudge Pot Stroll, a tasting tour of downtown Medford restaurants that kicked off Pear Blossom Festival weekend. The food truck served a duck pot sticker filled with duck, apple and hazelnuts, steamed, then pan-fried in duck fat and finished with a chocolate teriyaki drizzle and a bite of slaw in a mandarin orange and ginger vinaigrette. The dumpling was paired with a hibiscus Arnold Palmer made with fresh lemonade and hibiscus tea. Wamba Juice won the
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-26
Jerry Pendzick says he’s had woodworking tools in his hands since he was 5 years old. A third-generation woodworker whose grandfather built cabinets for the United States Navy during World War I, he’s carved a niche replicating the techniques and styles used in Early American chair making. Though he’s constructed furniture for years, Pendzick said that something about traditional chair-making “captured me.” Earlier this year, Pendzick offered a course in constructing Bow Back Windsor chairs at T
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-26
Carson Helicopters' deliberate understatement of the weight of its Sikorsky aircraft and lapses in safety oversight by federal agencies led to the Aug. 5, 2008, crash that killed nine people — including seven firefighters from Jackson and Josephine counties — a federal transportation board has concluded. The National Transportation Safety Board released its 500-page final report Tuesday on the Northern California crash during an all-day meeting in Washington, D.C. NTSB investigators
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-24
As the great Aretha Franklin ascended last week, media outlets were flooded with tributes to the Queen of Soul. Her role in the realms of civil rights, women’s rights and music were documented and praised with the utmost respect. Well, let’s make that with the utmost R-E-S-P-E-C-T. It was unavoidable. From twitterers to newscasters, Facebook to front pages, no one could avoid making the obvious connotation with one of her signature anthems by using the song title and spelling it out. Heck, even
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-25
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has tapped prosecutor Laura Cromwell to replace Jackson County Circuit Judge Patricia Crain, a drug treatment court pioneer who will retire Aug. 31. Cromwell, a senior deputy district attorney, is the first member of the Jackson County District Attorney’s Office to be assigned specifically to cases involving defendants with mental health issues. She also handles cases in which family members or others are trying to have a person involuntary committed to a psychiatric insti
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-24
Bowhunters heading to the woods this weekend for the start of the big-game archery season will be met with wildfire smoke, vast swaths of closed forestland and campfire restrictions in two popular wilderness areas. Several wildfires are burning in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, and every one has area closures. “They all have closures associated with them, and the closures remain in place longer than the fire because of safety issues like falling snags,” forest spokeswoman Chamise Kram
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-25
In response to your Aug. 9 editorial regarding concerns of wineries events and neighbors, you state wineries “can’t survive just on the sale of wine through their tasting rooms, and hosting events helps them make ends meet,” and “wine alone is not enough to sustain vineyards and wineries all year long, especially smaller ones.” That opinion is not only simplistic, but ignores the decades-long process of protecting farmland that began with Oregon’s landmark Senate Bill 100, which created statewid