Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-14
SALEM — Oregon senators put state labor regulators in the hot seat Wednesday over why they waited 18 months to finalize rules for Oregon’s landmark pay equity law, which takes force Jan. 1. Lawmakers summoned officials with the state Bureau of Labor and Industries, known as BOLI, to the Capitol to respond to complaints from businesses. Employers said the agency didn’t give enough guidance or advance notice on how to comply with one of the most comprehensive pay equity laws in t
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-14
So, you’re looking for a show to watch and you’re just so over the constant holiday cheer. It’s everywhere. From commercials to shopping aisles to movie choices, bah humbug. Well, if you missed out on the series “Happy!” when it first came out on the SyFy channel last year, now’s your chance to catch up on Netflix (also available on Amazon Prime). Based on the short, four-issue comic series, “Happy!” is anything but what the title implies. But it d
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-14
Oregon Secretary of State Dennis Richardson said treatments for a brain tumor are making him tired but don’t impact his thinking or his fitness to serve. Richardson, a Republican from Central Point, issued a health update Thursday in an online video. In the video, Richardson disclosed ways the cancer and treatment affect his energy levels and speech patterns. In his first update since he disclosed the small tumor six months ago, Richardson said his three most recent MRIs showed no growth f
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-04
For the second time in four years, Pebblestone Cellars has walked away from the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition with Best of Class accolades. The 2014 Ellis Vineyards Viognier topped its peers last week in the nation's largest wine competition, judged in the Sonoma County berg of Cloverdale and celebrated at Fort Mason. The Camp Baker Road winery's performance comes on the heels of a similar distinction with a 2010 pinot gris, which captured a Best of Show in 2012. "California is a big
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-04
Indications are that Mike Wilson is in the best shape of his life, and that’s important as the Central Point boxer embarks on the biggest challenge of his career. Wilson, the undefeated North American Boxing Association cruiserweight champion, takes on longtime World Boxing Association champion Denis Lebedev, of Russia, in a 12-round fight Saturday in Monte Carlo, Monaco. Wilson, 35, is 19-0 with eight knockouts. In his most recent fight in March, he defeated Mario Aguilar, of Mexico, by unanimo
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-04
Of all the games South Medford’s boys basketball team possibly could lose, Tuesday’s matchup with Grants Pass simply wasn’t going to go down like that. Closing out the final regular season home game for their departing head coach and with revenge already on their minds, the second-ranked Panthers weren’t about to exit the South Medford High gym on anything other than a high note Tuesday. The Panthers made sure of that by building a 9-0 lead to start the game and a 26-
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-04
After Ashland writer Ruth Wire lost $84 in a telephone scam, she became the target of another scammer who asked her to send $1,400 to redeem a $65 million prize. "I sensed it was a scam immediately," she says. "I thought if I could write a play, it could help raise awareness. A play is fun." Wire imagined how she could turn the tables on the scammer — and her short play "You Lucky Lady" was born. The miniature drama is one of seven plays featured in "Moonlighting 2016," Ashland Contemporar
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-04
JACKSONVILLE — Thanks to technology Peter Britt’s house is ready for tours even though it was lost in 1950 to a fire. Britt photographed the early days of Southern Oregon’s settlement and was also a pioneer horticulturist. Emily Paige Taylor created the 3-D walk-through while she was a student at Southern Oregon University, where she received a bachelor’s degrees in history with a minor in anthropology. Using 3-D modeling to interpret historical structures that are no lon
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-04
TALENT — Jackson County Fire District No. 5 has a fire chief under contract for the first time in its history. The district’s board of directors Tuesday unanimously approved a contract with Darin Welburn, who has been interim chief since January and was formerly division chief. Other major actions taken by the board Tuesday set salary ranges for the positions of deputy chief and business manager. Staff was also directed to prepare an alternative to a current practice that allows fi
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-04
APPLEGATE — Cats with the feline version of the AIDS virus now have a Jackson County home they can safely live out their lives without potentially spreading the disease to other felines.{br class="hardreturn" /} The Sanctuary One animal care farm has recently announced completion of the William Driscoll and Alicia Theophil FIV Cat Cottage, a facility intended to care for cats with Feline Immunodeficiency Virus while they are kept separate from other cats. Sanctuary One officials said stray
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-04
Cheese culture comes to Southern Oregon Saturday, March 19, for the 12th annual Oregon Cheese Festival. The gamut of goat, cow and sheep cheeses will be available for sampling from 20 artisan creameries, both local and from around the state. It’s a chance to purchase fine cheeses produced in limited quantities or stocked only at specialty stores. The festival also highlights foods to enjoy with cheese. To make your own gourmet cheese platter, use these seven strategies from Rogue Creamery
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-04
The 18th Annual Labyrinth Walk to the New Year opens at 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 31, in Wesley Hall at the First United Methodist Church, 175 N. Main St., Ashland, and will be open until 1 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 1. The labyrinth will reopen from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. New Year's Day. The event is free, but donations are welcome. Many Rogue Valley residents and visitors add the labyrinth walk to their New Year celebrations because the sacred space provides a place to reflect on the ending of the old year an
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-03
Gilda Montenegro-Fix’s goal as a cultural agility consultant is simple: Every member of a community should be safe and seen, regardless of their background. It means first acknowledging where the obstacles to that outcome lie. “Bringing difficult topics to the table is the way to solve real profound change and real healing that will benefit all of us,” she said. Three principles guide Montenegro-Fix’s work: equity, diversity and inclusion. To some people, those concepts c
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-03
Mike Wilson could take solace in the game effort he put forth in the biggest boxing match of his career. But a unanimous decision loss by the 35-year-old Central Point cruiserweight to World Boxing Association champion Denis Lebedev still stung. The southpaw Lebedev, who is 4 inches shorter than the 6-foot-3 Wilson, blended a stout left hand with veteran ring skills and savvy in the nontitle fight Saturday at the Casino de Monte-Carlo in Monte Carlo, Monaco. One judge awarded Wilson three rounds
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-03
As is tradition when Christmastime nears, the 1964 classic “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” returned to American television screens. But this time around, the once-heralded stop-motion film has made the news for all the wrong reasons. Viewers may recall its simple plot: The reindeer is mocked and cast away by the majority of his peers when they discover his glowing red nose. Even though Rudolph ultimately returns to save the day - using his glimmering snout to guide Santa through poo
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-03
It was a dark and very rainy night when we broke through the Iron Curtain and entered what was then Yugoslavia at what is now the Slovenian border. But to backtrack. I had begun the adventure of my lifetime in Geneva, Switzerland. I was assigned to work/teach in Sofia, Bulgaria, by the I.L.O., the International Labor Organization, a special fund of the U.N. There were 12 skill sets in our group (mine was management information systems) from eight different countries. We were going to several dif
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-04
Charles Hanley will bring more than 30 years of firefighting experience when he becomes chief of Jackson County Fire District 5 May 30. Haley was chief of the Rodeo Hercules Fire District in the San Francisco Bay area from 2010 to 2016 and had been a deputy fire chief with the city of Santa Rosa, Calif. He will succeed Interim Chief Vince Lockett, who has served since October 2016 and will remain with the district. Hanley plans to bring fresh perspectives and enterprising methods to the challeng
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-03
The annual lighting of the menorah on the Ashland Plaza took on special significance Sunday night as the crowd remembered those slain at a Pennsylvania synagogue in October. The lighting marks the beginning of the eight-day Jewish holiday period of Hanukkah, sometimes spelled Chanukah. Rabbi Avi Zwiebel, director of the Chabad Jewish Center of Southern Oregon in Ashland, said his daughter was volunteering for a youth program when a gunman opened fire at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh o
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-03
I came upon an unanticipated section of the New York Times this week and it resonated with me. I usually don’t read the New York Times on Saturday, but I plan to start. The heading said, “The Week in Good News.” It started like this: “Sometimes it seems like we are living under a constant barrage of heavy news. But it isn’t all bad out there.” The information that followed was informative and upbeat. It was intended to send the reader into the weekend “w
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-04
Southern Oregon wine grape growers whose 2018 crops were rejected by wineries because of smoke taint may get a new source of relief. U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is pushing to include compensation for vintners whose crops were damaged by relentless wildfires in the lame-duck session spending bill. Although many of the region’s grape growers believe their crops were still capable of producing desirable wine, the loss of millions of dollars in income from canceled contracts was undeniably pa