Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-02
About 43 acres worth of woody debris along Crater Lake National Park’s North Entrance Road and Highway 62 is being burned, park officials said. Park personnel began igniting the burn piles Wednesday, a park news release said. “Hopefully we’ll have ignitions done today and tomorrow we’ll be patrolling and mopping up,” said Ed Waldron, park fire management officer. The debris piles were created this summer in the fuel break on the west side of the North Entrance Road, which is currently closed for
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-01
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Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-30
WASHINGTON — Federal authorities on Friday captured a Florida man with a criminal history and a fervor for President Donald Trump and accused him of sending at least 13 mail bombs to prominent Democrats, capping a nationwide search in a case that spread fear of election-season violence with little precedent in the U.S. Justice Department officials announced five federal charges against Cesar Sayoc, 56, of Aventura, Florida, and revealed that DNA and a fingerprint found on an envelope package hel
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-30
For the second straight year, South Medford’s football team left no doubt when it came to the annual Black and Blue Game Friday against North Medford. The Panthers scored touchdowns on their opening two series and never let the Black Tornado inside the 25-yard line to win the 33rd edition of the crosstown rivalry in a runaway, 35-0, in front of a packed house at Spiegelberg Stadium. It was only the seventh shutout in series history and allowed South Medford to trim its overall series deficit to
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-31
An iconic — and spooky — video game created by Southern Oregon designers will soon see a new life. But the latest rendering of Trilobyte Games’ “The 7th Guest” adventure puzzle game won’t be played on a computer. It will play out on a tabletop — mouse, screen and keyboard traded in for cards, dice, minis and a board. Oh, and a decoder magnifying glass. The game raised just shy of $62,000 from 713 backers during a month-long fundraising campaign, according to the Kickstarter crowdfunding website.
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-31
Bucking a reputation as one of the state’s most dangerous cities , Medford is on track to see its second straight year of reduced crime. For the first eight months of this year, Medford saw a 17.7 percent drop in “Part I” crimes — which include of a mix of violent and property crimes, from homicide and assault to vehicle theft and burglary — and a 13.5 percent drop in crime overall, according to the latest reports available. If the trend continues, it’ll be the second year in a row of reduced cr
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-31
The Oregon Board of Accountancy on Friday found evidence of fraud, dishonesty and misrepresentation in three years of tax returns filed by Medford certified public accountant and City Council candidate Curt Ankerberg, a finding that could cost him his CPA license. In a 4-1 vote, the board decided there was sufficient evidence of fraudulent intent when Ankerberg underreported income and improperly claimed deductions in his 2012, 2013 and 2014 tax returns. During an executive session, the board co
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-31
Bud L. Kaufman, co-founder of Croman Corp. and later a founder director of People’s Bank of Commerce, has died at 84. “He had a tremendous impact in our area,” said People’s Bank of Commerce Chairman Bill Jacobs. “His passing is a great loss for our bank.” While still in their teens, Kaufman and Arnold Dwain Cross founded Cross and Kaufman Logging Co. in Cave Junction in 1954. The operation prospered throughout Southern Oregon and Northern California, and their holdings expanded as they purchase
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-30
Medford's annual Veterans Day parade has been canceled this year, but an event honoring veterans is planned from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 11 in Hawthorne Park. The American Legion of Medford stepped in after learning the group who held the annual parade could not fulfill the Medford city requirements, a release this morning said. The celebration will include a lunch by Big Daddy's BBQ and information from a variety of organizations serving veterans. “We are very excited to have an event in Hawthor
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-31
An elderly couple was found deceased at 11:10 a.m. Tuesday in their home in the 300 block of Taylor Street, Ashland police said in a statement. Officers found a deceased 85-year-old male and 86-year-old female. Deputy Chief Warren Hensman said a detective team, Jackson County medical examiner and the district attorney personnel were called to the scene. Hensmen said that investigators are confident the couple devised a plan to end their lives due to significant medical concerns. Further informat
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-29
About the only thing that seems to make North Medford senior Eli Spence uncomfortable on the football field these days is talking about himself. If there’s anyone who values a team-first mentality more than Spence, you’d be hard-pressed to find them. It’s what left him floating from position to position the last two years as a valuable member of the Black Tornado football team, and what’s keeping him from taking too much credit for what has already been a record-breaking season in his first full
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-30
“Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead,” Tom Stoppard’s 1966 Edinburgh Fringe Festival debut, is an absurdist nightmare comedy along the lines of “Waiting for Godot.” Like Beckett, Ionesco and others, “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern” explores that narrow divide between art and reality, argues choice and predestination, and questions the meaning of life. “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead” opened last week at Camelot Theatre. To appreciate the play, first think “Hamlet” and then turn the play inside
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-29
Completion of the new Bear Creek Park playground in Medford continues to run into challenges in getting delivery of the final pieces of equipment, forcing another postponement to the expected completion of the $600,000-plus structure. The work originally was expected to be concluded with a ribbon cutting this past weekend, but a warehouse fire in Georgia put some features of the replacement structure on hold. Volunteers were told the equipment would arrive this week and that a final push to fini
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-30
"Oh hear us when we cry to Thee, For those in peril on the sea." — The Navy Hymn The second torpedo struck amidships, exploding gasoline into a 300-foot fireball with flames from stem to stern. "The fire was everywhere," said Seaman Marcellus Wegs. "I ran through the flames, my buddy was right behind me." Racing to his quarters, Wegs grabbed a life jacket. "My buddy went inside," Wegs said. "The fire got him. He never had a chance. I never saw him or any of the others since." As the Mercha
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-30
Changes are happening at Crater Lake National Park, some sooner than expected. Following a Sunday night storm that deposited about 5 inches of snow at Crater Lake’s visitor center, park officials decided Monday to close Rim Drive and the North Entrance Road, which were scheduled to be closed for the winter beginning Thursday. And, because of a change in the park concessionaire, the Rim Village Café and Gift Shop is closed as Crater Lake Hospitality takes over operations. Food service operations
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-30
ASHLAND — Residents of Southern Oregon University's gender-neutral dorm found anti-gay graffiti scrawled across their hallway walls and doors early Thursday. Ashland police believe the graffiti was intended to intimidate residents of the dorm, which began housing students in a mixed-gender environment this academic year. "Whoever wrote it knew people there or at least knew the names of some of the residents, because it was directed specifically by first names," said Sgt. Jim Alderman with
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-29
After a fire season lasting 151 days, the Oregon Department of Forestry’s Southwest Oregon District is out of the woods on wildfires. ODF declared fire season ended at 9 a.m. today, an announcement that affects state, private, city and county forestlands in Jackson and Josephine counties. According to an ODF release, the 2018 fire season was challenging due to high temperatures and a July 15 lightning storm that ignited fires throughout the region. Preliminary totals for the season show ODF fire
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-28
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A gunman who’s believed to have spewed anti-Semitic slurs and rhetoric on social media barged into a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday and opened fire, killing 11 people in one of the deadliest attacks on Jews in U.S. history. The 20-minute attack at Tree of Life Congregation in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood left six others wounded, including four police officers who dashed to the scene, authorities said. The suspect, Robert Bowers, traded gunfire with police and was shot sever
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-28
Between Steve Turner and Bill Singler, the football coaches have been involved in nearly every Black and Blue Game since the series began in 1986 after Medford High split into North Medford and South Medford high schools. Singler is in his 21st season as head coach of the Panthers, while Turner served as defensive coordinator under Rod Rumrey from 1988-97 before returning this fall to take over the Black Tornado as head coach. Both agree that the 33rd annual matchup between their respective scho
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-28
It took a spectacular penalty kick-save by its sophomore goalkeeper, but the South Medford boys soccer team will head to the playoffs riding its longest winning streak of the season. Kam Calhoun scored an unassisted goal in the 55th minute and Jude Pannell denied a PK 15 minutes later as South Medford wrapped up its regular season schedule with a 1-0 nonleague win Tuesday over Eagle Point. The win sends the Panthers (9-2-3) into the OSAA Class 6A state tournament on a four-game win streak. South