Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-21
This is the time of year to bundle up, drive out to the country in the middle of the night, and ... tip your head back. That's because the Orionid meteor shower will peak this weekend. The shower is an outer-space light show that occurs when Earth's orbit annually rolls over the debris trail from Halley's Comet. The results are often breathtaking for those Earthlings who take a gander at the right time. "The meteors that streak across the sky are some of the fastest among meteor showers, because
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-20
Callbacks are expected for movie roles. They aren’t normally part of the process when qualifying for the U.S. Olympic team. But track and field legend Dick Fosbury’s iconic high jump performance at the 1968 Summer Games in Mexico City might never have happened had he not come through in the clutch during an unexpected and perplexing second audition that fall. He and other event winners thought they qualified for the team during trials in June in Los Angeles. With little notice 
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-20
Can a county sheriff interpret the constitutionality of state and federal laws? It’s a question at the heart of Measure 15-181 on the Nov. 6 ballot in Jackson County. “I don’t know where you can find that a sheriff, a single person, has the ability to interpret law as constitutional or unconstitutional,” said Jackson County Sheriff Nathan Sickler, also a candidate for election to the position. “I don’t think that professional law enforcement should be doing that because that’s why we have judges
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-20
The fifth time is the charm. That’s what it comes down to for Cascade Christian and South Umpqua following the final volleyball matches of the Far West League season. Cascade Christian closed out league play with a sweep of rival St. Mary’s on Tuesday at St. Mary’s, 25-17, 25-18, 25-16. The victory gave the Challengers a share of the FWL crown with South Umpqua — both finishing 9-1 in league and having won home matches against each other — and sets up a seeding game for the league’s No. 1 and 2
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-20
PORTLAND Ashland junior E.J. Holland continued his torrid pace at 5,000 meters this season, running away from a talented field to lower his own state-best mark of the cross country season Saturday with a first-place finish at the Warner Pacific Classic at Lents Park. Holland shaved more time off his top effort this season by crushing the field with a time of 14 minutes, 53.20 seconds well ahead of runner-up Austen Apperson of Washington’s Adna High School (15:16.10) and third-place finishe
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-20
PHOENIX — The high school’s Rose Theater was dimly lit Friday morning, but despite the early hour, students were fully engaged as they had unfettered access to U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden for nearly an hour. “This is something I really enjoy,” the Democrat told the students, teachers and a few school administrators. This was Wyden’s third visit to the high school in recent years. “He likes us,” said Craig Pruitt, chairman of the Phoenix-Talent School Board. Wyden seemed equally buoyant after 45 minutes
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-20
What used to be the picnic grounds for a fraternal organization on the Rogue River is now a playground for actor and comedian Jim Belushi.{br class="hardreturn" /} Belushi, 61, has built a two-story vacation cabin at the former Elks picnic grounds in Eagle Point. He says he tried to retain the historic feel of the 1930s property as much as possible, restoring the old bandstand, barbecue pit and picnic tables where Elks cookouts, weddings, buffalo barbecues, reunions and community meetings were h
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-20
DNA evidence helps convict a Crescent City man in the murder of Ashland girl in 1994 CRESCENT CITY, Calif. ' DNA evidence obtained seven years after the murder of an Ashland girl led to the conviction of a Crescent City man Wednesday in a first-degree murder trial. After only 22 minutes of deliberation, a Del Norte County Superior Court jury returned a unanimous guilty verdict against Robert Allen Wigley, 37, of Crescent City, in connection with the October 1994 death of 18-year-old Camillia J.
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-20
JACKSONVILLE — A power pole twisted by strong winds could mean a six-figure loss to Britt Music & Arts Festival. A Tuesday night power outage that left most of Jacksonville in the dark for several hours forced the festival's first on-hill cancellation in 55 years, said Britt President and CEO Donna Briggs. “We’ve never canceled a show when we had patrons on the hill,” Briggs said. “This is the first time we had to call a show.” The outage affected 2,144
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-20
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Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-20
Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., has been a leader in calling for action on climate change. In 2015, he introduced the Keep It in the Ground Act, which would stop new leases and end “nonproducing” leases for coal, oil and gas on federal lands. He has opposed the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines and joined other senators in introducing the Clean Air Healthy Kids Act, which would block federal agencies from implementing actions outlined in President Trump’s executive order, w
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-20
Paddling atop a 60-foot waterfall — while inside nothing more than a glorified milk jug — Chris Korbulic's mind calmly analyzes the speed, trajectory and technique that make kayaking over mega-waterfalls more about precision than insanity. Korbulic envisions launching his kayak over the waterfall lip, then bear-hugging his 9-foot plastic boat as he plunges vertically at more than 45 mph. Together they either will slip cleanly into the pool below like an Olympic diver, or they will fa
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-19
In a futuristic world where artificial intelligence and human life are closely intertwined, AI has evolved to such a powerful state that it controls the world through machine-to-machine communication, and with its own agenda, in Puppeteers for Fears’ new cyberpunk musical comedy. With hand-held puppets, a live rock band and a multimedia light show, “Robopocalypse: the Musical” is a dystopian vision that hovers between hilarious comedy and a cautionary tale. The plot centers on the Daniels family
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-20
Two local extreme kayakers on an expedition in remote Congo watched in horror Tuesday as a crocodile snatched their South African guide from his kayak, apparently killing him. Chris Korbulic, of Rogue River, and Ben Stookesberry, of Mt. Shasta, Calif., were paddling Congo's Lukuga River as part of an Eddie Bauer-sponsored expedition into the source of the White Nile that was being led by guide Hendrik Coetzee, Eddie Bauer officials said Thursday. The pair paddled to safety after Coetzee was pull
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-20
Near a scenic, tree-lined stretch of Highway 62 near Prospect, a landowner has proposed a 23.5-acre mining operation that would increase truck traffic, create noise and impact deer and elk habitat. RH Holdings LLC owns the property at 49990 Highway 62, accessed off Ginkgo Road. The property is surrounded by federal forests and sits midway between Union Creek and Prospect, not far from popular attractions along the Upper Rogue River such as Natural Bridge and the Rogue Gorge. The operat
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-20
As a passing car honked its way down Eighth Street Saturday, participants in a rally they said was to support police decided the driver was backing their cause and cheered. Some of the 10 demonstrators standing outside the police station wearing blue shirts, waving American flags and carrying signs saying "God Bless Our Police," "Back the Blue" and "Blue Lives Matter," seemed confused by the sight of over 100 people gathered for a peace-focused counter-rally in Alba Park. "We're not the ant
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-20
Extreme kayaker Chris Korbulic rips off his destinations in the last two years — Russia, New Guinea, Patagonia, Norway, Nepal, Labrador — like running down a grocery list. It's becoming routine for Korbulic to plunge off waterfalls in far-flung, remote outposts, etching his place in the pantheon of the world's top thrill-seekers. The 2004 Grants Pass High School graduate is a full-time extreme kayaker, earning a living from sponsors that include clothing giant Eddie Bauer, and from
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-20
Sixteen students from North and South Medford high schools will get a chance to perform with the big guns Monday when the U.S. Army Concert Band comes to town. “Whenever we play music in band, you always look for the recordings and usually the best recordings are of the Army band,” said Anna Borth, a North Medford High School senior. “I just fell in love with how they sounded and how passionate they are.” Borth and three of her bandmates from North Medford will join the band for the title song i
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-20
The Cascade-Siskyou National Monument has expanded by more than 900 acres, following the transfer of property from The Conservation Fund to the Bureau of Land Management. The transferred land, which includes a stretch of the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail, was formerly owned by Hancock Timber Resource Group. The national monument, located at the intersection of the Cascade Range, Siskiyou Mountains and Klamath Mountains, was created in 2000 to preserve the area's biodiversity. The monument
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-19
OCEAN OUTLOOK COASTWIDE: Winds up to 20 knots and swells up to 6 feet are forecast for today, followed by light winds but wind waves up to 6 feet Saturday. Sunday has winds up to 15 knots with the wind waves backing down a bit to 5 feet. 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, and it will stay that way for the rest of the year as long as rockfish quotas remain on the table. A