Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-17
Since winning approval for expansion from Medford City Council in July, Rogue Retreat has raised just over half of its $260,000 goal to erect 16 new "tiny homes" for Hope Village. The new 8-by-10-foot units were constructed in Albany and trucked in to augment the original 14 structures, bringing the tiny house community to 30. Volunteer teams are in the process of finishing them with insulation, sheetrock and flooring, but more groups of up to seven people are needed, Rogue Retreat Development D
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-17
Editor's note: Light One Candle is an annual series sponsored by the Mail Tribune that focuses on an individual, group or agency who could use a helping hand during the holiday season. Once that need is filled, donations may be distributed to others in need. After surviving horrific abuse, this mother and four boys are striving toward the American dream. Warm winter clothing and gift cards to purchase food and household necessities would help to sustain their efforts. Born in Mexico, this woman
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-18
White City resident Joy Reich has been given the annual Chairman’s Award for her decades of volunteer work to improve the unincorporated community north of Medford. Jackson County’s citizen-of-the-year award is bestowed annually by the chairman of the Jackson County Board of Commissioners. “The Chairman’s Award recognizes a local resident whose lifetime achievements have gone above and beyond the responsibilities of good citizenship in making a profound difference in Jack
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-17
WASHINGTON (AP) — With a number of probes moving closer to the Oval Office, President Donald Trump and his attorney unleashed a fresh series of attacks Sunday on the investigators, questioning their integrity while categorically ruling out the possibility of a presidential interview with the special counsel. Trump and Rudy Giuliani used Twitter and television interviews to deliver a series of broadsides against special counsel Robert Mueller and federal prosecutors in New York. Giuliani sa
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-16
Just as shocking as it was for Charles Hidde to lose his drone to a pellet gun Tuesday was the social media outrage against him that followed. Public sections of Hidde's Facebook page show numerous comments sympathetic to the alleged shooter Friday afternoon. One profile posted more than a dozen antagonizing messages between Thursday and Friday about the shooting, reportedly demanding Hidde release additional footage to see what "really happened." "You harassed, provoked and taunted thus guy unt
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-17
In a recent editorial on energy reform published on The Hill, a political website, Rep. Greg Walden heralded the opportunity presented by our new Republican president in combination with Republican control of the House and Senate. He criticized the “barrage of red-tape regulations” set forth by the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy during the Obama Administration — regulations he claims “impeded energy development, prematurely shuttered coal pla
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-16
The following North Medford High School students qualified for the 4.0 honor roll for the second quarter of the 2010-11 academic year. Ricardo Balero, Leticia Barrera, Thomas Beech, Douglas Beick, Anneliese Boehning, Anya Boehning, Evan Carlson, Shelby Collinsworth, Clara Dunn, Amanda Dunston, Alexandra Ebert, Matthew Eilertson, Marlene Garcia, Kelsey Garrett, Arturo Gavilanes, Kami Goodson, Sharesa Gregg, Shayla Grether, Travis Hamilton, Jonathan Hokanson, Brianna Houston, Nancy Ibarra, Devin J
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-17
The victim in an east Medford homicide was the mother of her alleged killer's children. Noemi Ruiz, 32, found stabbed to death in her driveway Monday morning in the 2000 block of Hill Way, had been in a decade-long relationship with Enrique Solis-Garcia that recently turned abusive, according to Medford police Lt. Justin Ivens. Ruiz and Solis-Garcia never married in their 10 years together, but they have two children. “Obviously that’s tragic in and of itself right there,” I
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-16
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Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-16
The following Hedrick Middle School students qualified for the fourth quarter 3.5 — 3.99 honor roll: Mario Alvarez, Omar Alvarez-Garcia, David Anaya, Noah Anderson, Matthew Arnett, Nichole Arnold, Annabelle Axness, Azra Azra, Phillip Barbaccia, Caitlin Barrie, Nicole Bartu, Ashley Baugh, Thomas Beech, Nicole Berengue, Brianna Berryessa, Caienna Bierwirth, Kylie Biondi, Zachary Biondi, Kaila Blaydon, Angelique Blue, Jessica Bourgeois, Joanna Bourgeois, Emily Boyd, Jessica Bradley, Michelle
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-15
WASHINGTON (AP) — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who is facing federal investigations into his travel, political activity and potential conflicts of interest, will leave the administration at year’s end, President Donald Trump said Saturday. Trump, in tweeting Zinke’s departure, said the former Montana congressman “accomplished much during his tenure” and that a replacement would be announced next week. The Cabinet post requires Senate confirmation. Zinke is leaving
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-16
A Bend police officer who shot and killed a 31-year-old man as he left the back of a northeast Bend home a week ago was identified Friday as a 10-year veteran of the force, but Deschutes County District Attorney Patrick Flaherty said no other information will be released until the investigation is complete. Flaherty told NewsChannel 21 that Erick Supplee, 37, was the man who fired a single shot that hit Tyler Keinonen, 31, in the chest during an encounter at a home on NE Jackdaw Drive. Supplee h
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-16
Ryker Benzley has taken on the unsavory job of cleaning a rat-infested house on Columbus Avenue, stuffing garbage bags filled with contaminated insulation. “It was a rat’s nest,” he says. “All the insulation in the attic had to be taken out because the rats had taken over.” The 25-year-old is cleaning up the former drug house for his dad, who is renovating after recently buying it. Down the street, another house that was in just as bad of shape also was cleaned up a
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-16
On the first day fighting the deadly Northern California wildfire that destroyed the city of Paradise last month, a crew setting a back burn to stop the blaze was suddenly overrun by flames when erratic winds suddenly shifted. One state prison inmate firefighter tried to escape the flames and ran into a barbed wire fence along Rattlesnake Flats Road. Another inmate cleared the fence on the other side of the road, but his gear snagged the barbed wire and he tumbled face-down. Flames ignited his h
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-16
Buyout by Integra Telecom means continued service for 800 clients of the telecommunications company A Beaverton-based telecommunications firm is the apparent successful bidder for bankrupt Advanced TelCom Group Inc.'s customers and assets in Oregon and Washington. Integra Telecom, a provider of local, long-distance and Internet services for small and mid-size businesses, has reached an agreement with Santa Rosa, Calif.-based ATG that will preserve service for ATG's 800 Southern Oregon customers.
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-16
Editor’s note: Light One Candle is an annual series sponsored by the Mail Tribune that focuses on an individual, group or agency who could use a helping hand during the holiday season. Once that need is filled, donations may be distributed to others in need. The clothes on their backs are all this Medford family brought as they fled domestic violence. Still short on personal belongings, the 29-year-old mother and two boys need warm blankets, bath towels and basic kitchen utensils, dishes a
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-15
If your family likes to pile into the car and drive around checking out holiday light displays, wait no longer. Grab this life, fill up a thermos with hot chocolate, and load up on candy canes. It’s time to go for a drive. Central Point 1020 Brandon St.: See a railroad-themed holiday light display visible from the sidewalk or car. The display will be lit from 5 to 9 p.m. Dec. 14-15 and Dec. 21-24. The display includes trains running through Santa’s Village, stores, work shops, parks
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-15
This year has seen its share of landmark box sets, along with a number of excellent reissues. That means there are some great gift options for music fans on your holiday shopping list. The Beatles: “The White Album” — For many Beatles fans, this is the re-issue they’ve been waiting for, a journey through the landmark follow-up to “Sgt. Pepper’s.” This six-CD set starts with the original album. Then it features the full 27-track Escher demos, an acoustic
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-15
A former Eagle Point teacher and School Board member is speaking out against the district’s model of proficiency grading, saying it lowers standards to increase graduation rates. Jim Mannenbach said the grading system gives a false impression to increase graduation rates, although the trajectory of graduation rates in Eagle Point since the switch to proficiency-based grading suggests no unprecedented gains. Mannenbach, who has a multi-chapter history of clashing with district leadership, i
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-15
A man will spend at least 25 years in prison for the brutal stabbing death of the mother of his children in her east Medford driveway. Jose Enrique Solis Garcia, 39, was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for the 2017 murder of his longtime girlfriend and mother of his two daughters, Noemi Ruiz, whom he stabbed dozens of times before leaving her in her driveway for family, including her children, to discover. Solis Garcia avoided eye contact with the more than 20 friends and family members of R