Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-16
Ongoing wildfires across the region have resulted in the poorest air quality for Medford in at least almost two decades, according to National Weather Service data, but shifting winds could residents a reprieve. On Sunday, the city had experienced 17 days where the daily air quality was ranked as “unhealthy” or worse, which is top of the heap compared to 18 years of annual readings. Officials pulled that data from the Environmental Protection Agency’s outdoor air quality data tool , and AirNow T
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-17
The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a man they say pistol-whipped a 19-year-old man in Wimer on Friday. Eddie Joseph Correia, Jr., a 34-year-old transient from Grants Pass, allegedly pointed a gun at a 19-year-old around 8 p.m. that night at the Wimer Family Market, 8816 E. Evans Creek Road, according to a news release. Deputies were dispatched at 8:04 p.m. following a report of an assault in the area. “The caller reported a man armed with a handgun ‘pistol whipped’ the victim in
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-17
Gray wolf OR-7 may be quite long in the tooth, but he’s still got what it takes in the den. Federal wolf biologists released new trail-camera footage Tuesday showing that OR-7 and his mate had three pups this spring. This is the fifth consecutive year that Oregon’s celebrity canis lupus had at least one pup. OR-7, more than 9 years old, has now sired 16 known pups. Not bad for a grandpa. “It’s not unprecedented, but it sure is a long run,” said John Stephenson, the Bend-based U.S. Fish and Wildl
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-17
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Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-12
Earlier this year, Julie Kennedy received a gift bag filled with kidney beans. At first, she didn’t think much of the gift. Battling end-stage renal disease, she can’t eat kidney beans because of their high phosphorous and potassium content. Then she realized it was her daughter Joy’s way of telling her that Legacy Health Center’s transplant team had found a kidney donor that was a perfect match. Joy also enclosed a card that read, “Come rain, come shine, I will be with you every step of the way
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-12
Fewer insurance companies are providing Affordable Care Act policies for Oregonians, and what is offered is overwhelming to folks like Sam and Deborah Mahoney. The Mahoneys carefully budgeted their expenses in raising two sons and a daughter in Prospect, but self-discipline isn't enough when it comes to dwindling options. Sam is a hairstylist and Deborah is a manicurist, fields in which you're often considered self-employed. Prior to institution of the Affordable Care Act, they had a Blue Cross
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-12
Estéban Gonzalez’s life changed when the threats started. Whatever sense he had of childhood innocence narrowed like his breathing room when a group of men surrounded him after he left his school in Lourdes, El Salvador, one day. The five gang members, young but still several years older than he, began with questions: “How old are you? Where do you live?” The 14-year-old is not especially shy with strangers; an enthusiastic evangelist, he would often go door to door to talk about his Christian f
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-12
“My soul is full of longing For the secret of the sea, And the heart of the great ocean Sends a thrilling pulse through me.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Secret of the Sea,” 1850 Many Rogue Valley residents, myself included, have been escaping the summer smoke and heat at the southern Oregon coast. This week, I’ve been in beautiful Bandon, where skies are clear (other than morning fog) and temperatures are in the mid 60s. Besides enjoying the “secrets of the sea,” I’ve been taking note of
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-12
For unknown millennia, animals wore trails in the ground that later were followed by American Indians as they hunted and gathered food through the Rogue, Umpqua and Willamette River valleys. Those early routes eventually would become the historic Pacific Highway, which stretches 1,600 miles from the Mexican border through California, Oregon and Washington to Canada. It was the residents of Jackson County who championed construction of the road in Oregon. Those up north, who had access to steamsh
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-12
I had been in the Navy for a year, on land, in Jacksonville, Florida. New regulations stipulated that all two-year enlistees split their service, one year on land and one year at sea. When I got the news that I was to go to sea off Key West, Florida, I was very happy. I had requested Key West if I were to be transferred, and the Navy kindly obliged. Soon, off I went to be assigned to an EDDE, an Experimental Destroyer Destroyer-Escort, the only one in the fleet at the time. It was a mysterious a
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-11
The new Holiday Inn Express & Suites going up on Center Drive near the south Medford freeway interchange is on course to open in late November. The $5.85 million, four-story, 42,615-square-foot, 91-unit hotel will be operated by Springfield-based InnSight Hotel Management Group, which manages adjacent Center Drive properties SpringHill Suites by Marriott and TownePlace Suites by Marriott, as well as Courtyard by Marriott at the Medford airport, and Holiday Inn Express & Suites in Central Point.
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-11
A Central Point man accused of being part of a ring that stole nearly all of a licensed marijuana farm’s first-year harvest was captured Tuesday night near Grants Pass following a chase that police say involved , speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour, an Oregon State Police boat and thousands of dollars in damage to a fence. Mitchell Jeffrey King, 28, faces new felony drug charges and a count of attempt to elude police in a vehicle following a Tuesday evening chase that started in Central Point
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-11
A state ethics commission will decide Friday whether to fine the former executive director of Logos Public Charter School $5,500 for violating ethics laws when he signed a $1.5 million contract with the school a month after he had resigned. Joe VonDoloski, who said in May he would challenge the Oregon Government Ethics Commission’s “one-sided” findings of 22 violations of ethics laws, agreed to the $5,500 fine recommended by commission staff. His signature indicates he will not challenge the fin
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-09
With the turkey finally out of the oven, it’s time to heat up the Oscar race, as Hollywood serves up some of its best dishes of the year. But for most film fans, there’s really only one offering that has them salivating. And that, of course, is “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” the second in the latest trilogy about the galaxy far far away. Not much is known about the still unseen sequel to “The Force Awakens,” but I can tell you it furthers the storyline of h
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-09
Fans of E.L. James’ love-and-bondage novels will recognize “red” as the safe word gullible Anastasia assigns when she enters the infamous BDSM “Playroom” escorted by the plasticized tycoon of kink, Christian Grey. Well, five minutes into the torturous “Fifty Shades Freed” I was the one crying “RED!” But no one would listen. It just persisted in its cruel assault for another 100 minutes, subjecting me to awful acting, terrible writing
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-09
In addressing a vastly underserved segment of society, the slight-but-smart “Oh Lucy!” cuts straight to the heart of how daunting life can be if you’re an unmarried, middle-aged woman stuck in a dead-end job. Taken at face value, writer-director Atsuko Hirayanagi’s slice of cross-cultural life is a dramedy that takes a somewhat unflattering view of American life through Japanese eyes. But look closer and you’ll find an often moving examination of how both natio
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-09
It might have 12 in its title, but make no mistake, the low-rent military drama “12 Strong” is a one-man show for Chris Hemsworth. The dreamy blue-eyed Aussie lifts the entire movie — as lightweight as it is — atop his sculpted shoulders to support a script that empties its canon of war-movie clichés. Among the arsenal: Big, CGI-enhanced battles; soldiers promising to be home by Christmas; fretful wives keeping the home fires burning; walkie-talkie static at pivo
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-09
If you turned on a TV set in Australia anytime between the mid-1990s through the early-2000s, you were going to see the face of Australian actor Jason Clarke. He made the rounds — a guest spot here, a recurring series character there. Life changed for him when he jumped into film and landed the part of Constable Riggs in the drama “Rabbit-Proof Fence,” which made a stir on the U.S. art house scene. But it wasn’t till he moved to America and started getting small parts
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-09
Director Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s classic children’s book, “A Wrinkle In Time,” is more mystifying than magical, proving sometimes these cherished books are best left on the page. A favorite of youngsters since its 1962 publication, the thought-provoking fantasy is a special effects-driven spectacle dealing in cliches while wearing its treacle on its sleeve. This IS Disney, after all. “Wrinkle” is written by Jennifer
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-09
The new film “A Wrinkle in Time,” just like the 1962 Newbery Award-winning fantasy book by Madeleine L’Engle that it was based on, focuses on a group of young protagonists who make their way from the world they know out into the universe to fight forces of evil and save the day. But both film and book also feature some mysterious, fairly oddball adult characters, each of whom adds a little something to the direction of the story. There’s the overly chatty, kind of dit