Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-01
Identity theft ' Toni Sue Burrows, 37, of the 2900 block of Crater Lake Highway, Medford. Medford police late Sunday arrested Burrows on six counts of identity theft, one count of conspiracy to commit identity theft and one count of second-degree theft. She was lodged in the Jackson County Jail and released on her own recognizance. Drugs ' Leon Douglas Remstedt, 35, of the first block of Maple Street, Shady Cove. Shade Cove police Monday arrested Remstedt on a charge of possession of methampheta
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-28
More than 106,000 homes in Jackson and Josephine counties are at risk from wildfires, according to a study commissioned by the U.S. Forest Service. The study listed the top 50 communities in Oregon with the most housing units exposed to wildfire risk. Jackson and Josephine County communities take up 23 of those top 50 spots. With 29,340 housing units exposed to wildfire, Medford ranks third on the list prepared in late 2018 by Pyrologix, a Montana firm specializing in wildfire analysis. Grants P
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-26
OCEAN OUTLOOK COASTWIDE: A small-craft advisory is in effect through Friday night, with winds up to 10 knots and swells up to 9 feet in the Brookings area. Saturday’s forecast calls for 10-knot winds and swells up to 6 feet, and more of the same is forecast for Sunday. The marine aggregate rockfish daily limit for bottomfishers is five fish. Cabezon must be released unharmed. Rockfish angling is open beyond the 30-fathom line. A descending device to help release rockfish caught in deeper w
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-26
SALEM — Oregon’s public employees typically pay less for health insurance than their peers in neighboring states, a new study finds. The study by the actuarial firm Milliman was commissioned by The Oregon Business Council, an association of business leaders as part of the Oregon Business Plan initiative. The study found that the average state employee in Oregon pays a smaller share of his or her health insurance premium than the average state employee in Idaho, California, Nevada and
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-26
Sometimes it takes a documentary to open your eyes to great historical figures somehow lost to the march of time. Figures such as Nikola Tesla or Wernher von Braun, whose influence is so widely and profoundly intertwined with our advancements, somehow fall into obscurity. You don’t often find these people listed in the volumes of required textbooks from high school or even higher education. Netflix, along with Leo DiCaprio, has produced a documentary film of one such person, an artistic vi
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-25
Logos Public Charter School had the highest graduation rate among Jackson County schools in 2018, according to new data released this morning from the Oregon Department of Education. The charter school’s class of 2018 showed a four-year graduation rate of 92.94 percent. “I can’t help but just be thrilled with what Logos has accomplished for kids in this region,” said Sheryl Zimmerer, the school’s executive director. All but two Jackson County school districts saw im
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-26
ASHLAND — The U.S. Forest Service has resumed controlled burns to reduce wildfire hazards in the Ashland Watershed despite the federal government shutdown after three “burn bosses” were taken off furloughs this week. Contract crews working on the Ashland Forest Resiliency Project, known as AFR, touched off stacked burn piles today on about 30 acres in the Horned Gap area, a key battleground to stave off a future wildfire moving from the Wagner Creek watershed toward Ashland. Th
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-26
What a difference a minute makes. The winter solstice just passed, the shortest day of the year. On the human calendar, the solstice marks the beginning of winter. On the bird calendar, it’s different. For many of our resident birds, it marks the beginning of spring. A few days after the solstice, as I walked the driveway to retrieve the newspaper, I heard singing. No, it wasn’t carolers that just couldn’t bear to hang up the mittens and scarf. It was bird song. It wasn’t
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-26
Rogue Valley Mentoring is offering a two-day youth “Mentoring Essentials” workshop Friday and Saturday. The Ashland-based organization, previously known as the Rose Circle Mentoring Network, connects trained adults with youth of all demographics, ages 10-24, within the Rogue Valley. The workshop is from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, at Central Medford High School, 815 S. Oakdale Ave. The training is required for anyone wishing to volunteer with the organizatio
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-26
TALENT — Usually in the business of caring for cats and dogs, the Jackson County Animal Services shelter staff are nearly ready to declare a hallway “bunny row.” The shelter took in a dozen rabbits and farmed another six out to foster care as part of two separate cases last week. “We already had the one mama with the babies in foster care,” said shelter supervisor Rebecca Long. “We get one or two bunnies occasionally, but not 11 at once and never 18 at the sam
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-26
We are 20-something days into January — and I’ve really been trying to understand habits. How can we change our habits into ones that work for us -- ESPECIALLY because so many of our habits were established when we were kids and young adults? In this episode, Danielle Craig talks about the habit loop -- how it works and how you can manipulate it to see your own results. She'll also give tips on how to stop hating yourself into change. Negative talk isn't successful in helping you cha
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-20
John Minor, the Southern Oregon football team chaplain, is like another coach on the field and a friend and confidant away from it In the world of college football, a team chaplain is not usually an integral part of the school's program. For Southern Oregon University's football team, however, chaplain John Minor is. Minor, an ordained minister for 16 years and the pastor at Simple Faith Fellowship in Ashland, has played the role of friend, mentor and motivator of the Raiders since head football
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-19
From modest beginnings on Medford’s West Main Street, Sweet Tea Express embarked on an expansion to bring much-needed dining options to Central Point’s east side. Also doing a brisk business in catering and takeout, the restaurant is tucked into an East Pine Street shopping plaza, made more visible by its steam-engine smoker out front. The business emblem piqued my kids’ interest in a “special lunch” on a recent Saturday. Because Sweet Tea serves breakfast until 2 p
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-19
U.S. Rep. Greg Walden on Friday blasted the federal response to wildfires that have devastated the Southern Oregon economy, jeopardized local health and prompted an outcry from residents over what they believe is a “let-it-burn” philosophy . “I don’t know if there’s a policy like that, but I hear it enough,” Walden said to about 400 people at a town hall at Central Medford High. “They’ve got to get on them quicker.” Walden endorsed the Oregon
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-19
We had planned to refrain from endorsing a candidate for president this year. But that was before Donald Trump became the Republican nominee. We believe newspaper endorsements are valuable primarily because we can give readers the benefit of our access to candidates and issues on the state and local level. The more local the race, the more valuable, in our view. We have no special knowledge about or access to presidential candidates, and what we do know is no more than any engaged voter can find
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-19
Three of the biggest full moons of the year will be high and bright in Southern Oregon’s skies Jan. 20, Feb. 19 and March 21. Known as “supermoons,” they appear larger in the sky because of proximity to the Earth. The Jan. 20 supermoon will also undergo a total lunar eclipse, which is popularly called a Blood Moon. Because this is a January full moon, it is also known as Wolf Moon. And so, January’s full moon gets all three titles: Super Blood Wolf Moon. Weather permittin
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-20
At the school where Barbara Sheaffer teaches, there are no bells, no grades, no homework and just one spelling test a week. If Sheaffer's students want to climb a tree and read a book among the branches, that's fine. Her students decide for themselves when they want to work on each assignment and can expect one-on-one presentations from their teachers when they do. Sheaffer and her husband, Scott, have owned and taught at Medford Montessori School for nearly 35 years. The couple bought a Poplar
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-19
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, took to Twitter early Friday calling on President Donald Trump to resign after reports that he instructed his former lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about Trump’s business interests in Moscow. Merkley was among a chorus of congressional Democrats claiming that Trump may have committed an impeachable offense. “If this report of Trump suborning false testimony is confirmed, then Trump committed a felony and must resign or be impeached,” M
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-19
Back when I started driving, the only four-lane highway in Oregon was from just south of Oregon City on through Milwaukee, old Highway 99. To get the privilege to drive, a driver had to know how to make a left turn, i.e., from the left lane to the left lane. Something has gotten lost over the years, because I can't drive a mile in the city without seeing people make, say, a left turn and not even trying to get in the left lane, they just keep going RIGHT into whatever lane they want with their L
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-19
A man suspected of engaging in sexual misconduct with women at coffee stands has been arrested, but Medford police believe more victims could be out there. Bradley Chance Oliver, 26, was arrested Friday on three counts of indecent exposure, accusing him of masturbating in front of female baristas at least three times this month, according to Medford police, but police believe he could have engaged in similar behavior with others. Oliver has allegedly engaged in the indecent exposures while behin