Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-10
A sharing spirit is a fantastic quality to have, but that’s not always the case in the sporting world where too often big statistics and the spotlight of being the No. 1 guy prevail. Fortunately for South Medford’s football team, senior tailback Terrence Butler isn’t interested in getting caught up in all that fuss. “Football is really special to me,” says the 5-foot-10, 185-pound senior, “and all I care about is if everyone’s having fun then I’m having fun. At the end of the day I want everyone
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-11
Medford Mustangs manager Nate Mayben said Thursday night that he had spoken with American Legion officials and the results of the team’s appeal following Wednesday’s Legion AAA state championship game will be determined this morning. This contradicts a report about an hour earlier by the Corvallis Gazette-Times that said Mid-Valley manager Troy Babbitt had told the paper that Medford’s protest had been denied regarding the eligibility of Briley Knight in Wednesday’s state final. American Legion
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-10
Wildlife Images bid one of its icons farewell this week after a soaring career delighting and educating Southern Oregonians. Phoenix the golden eagle was put down at the age of 38, after doctors discovered that he was in end-stage kidney failure. He also had cataracts that increasingly affected his quality of life, the nonprofit said in a release. “It’s like losing a member of your family,” said Wildlife Images Executive Director Dave Siddon, Jr. He became Phoenix’s de facto parent when the eagl
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-11
GRANTS PASS — The Medford Mustangs won their third straight game over the Grants Pass Nuggets, 6-2 on Monday, behind solid pitching and hitting from Dylan Marsh in the Area 4 contest. Three Medford (24-8) pitchers scattered six hits to hold Grants Pass in check. Starter and winner Marsh — who also had the game’s big hit — allowed one hit over three innings, striking out one and walking three. He gave up one run, unearned. Brady Buchanan and Jack Thompson followed on the mound. Marsh hit a three-
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-10
Hometown hero Dick Fosbury will return to Medford in a couple weeks as the 50th anniversary of his record-setting Olympic glory is celebrated. On Oct. 19, 1968, the Medford High graduate won the gold medal at the Mexico City Games , using a technique he developed, the Fosbury Flop, that has become the universal method for clearing the high-jump bar. A book about Fosbury, “ The Wizard of Foz ,” was released early last month. Author Bob Welch will join Fosbury in Medford for a book signing and rec
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-09
Skyrocketing drug prices are causing politicians on both sides of the aisle to search for solutions as costs strain federal and state budgets, drive up health insurance premiums and hit consumers in the pocketbook. "At town hall meetings all around Southern Oregon, I've heard from patients and families concerned about the cost of prescription drugs," says U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Hood River. "On a personal level, my wife used to carry an EpiPen due to a bee allergy — and stopped when the p
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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  On a frosty night in December, James Bowman was alone and overcome with exhaustion. The cannabis grower had worked hard all day processing plants at his BlueSky Gardens near Wimer, lacking the money to keep his crew on hand to provide security through the night. Arguably Southern Oregon’s best-known grower, the 57-year-old struggled financially to make it through the harvest. His ambitious High Hopes Farm in the Applegate, once toured by legislators as a model of medical marijuana
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-10
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is resigning, she and President Donald Trump announced Tuesday, blindsiding many administration officials and stirring speculation in the White House and beyond about the timing and reasons for the latest Trump shake-up just weeks before the November midterm elections. The news was news to many congressional Republicans involved in foreign policy matters, and some key U.S. allies did not get advance word from Haley or the White House. Neither she nor
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-10
MEDFORD — Dazzling a crowd of a few hundred Hoover Elementary students Tuesday, Harlem Globetrotter Julian “Zeus” McClurkin had only to stand at the center of the gym in his trademark red, white and blue jumpsuit and spin a basketball on his finger to have students’ complete and undivided attention. Throw in a few slam dunks, some silly jokes and some mesmerizing ball tricks, and McClurkin had students begging to high-five the 6-foot-8 basketball giant on their way back to class. McClurkin was o
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-10
Turns out the heat and smoke that greeted Country Crossings patrons last July were mere omens to a financially hazy aftermath. Jackson County, Central Point and the Oregon Department of Transportation are among public entities awaiting payment of $100,800 for their services during the four-day country music festival at the Expo. Private security and vendors are also awaiting payment from Eugene-based BootsNBeach Country Music Festival LLC. Country Crossings — the largest non-fair event at the Ex
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-10
Two medical workers and a veteran rushed to the aid of their 85-year-old neighbor Tuesday after she was burned during a fire at her Central Point home. Irene Jones was rushed to the hospital and treated for non-life-threatening burns, saved from more serious injuries when neighbors pulled her away from the flames at 613 Laurel St. Neighbors Albert and Devin Kyne had just returned from the gym when they heard Jones screaming for help about 10:45 a.m. Tuesday. They, along with Christopher Currier,
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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A Pennsylvania man has been arrested for his involvement in a December home-invasion robbery of a licensed pot farm in Wimer. Frank William Foremski, 34, of Richboro, Pennsylvania, entered not guilty pleas Thursday in Jackson County Circuit Court on felony robbery, aggravated theft, burglary and vehicle theft charges alleging he was one of four masked suspects who attacked a marijuana grower Dec. 16 and stole more than 300 pounds of processed marijuana outside Rogue River. The victim, James Bowm
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is resigning, The Associated Press has learned. President Donald Trump tweeted that he has a “big announcement with my friend Ambassador Nikki Haley in the Oval Office at 10:30 a.m.” Congressional and Trump administration officials told the AP that Haley plans to resign. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak on the record ahead of Trump’s announcement. They did not provide a reason. Haley was appointed to the U
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-09
South Medford used a little help from an unexpected source and a few more-heralded football players to ease past Roseburg for a 33-12 triumph on homecoming night Friday at Spiegelberg Stadium. Senior quarterback Giovanni Bottero passed for three touchdowns — two to little-targeted senior receiver Trevor Marthoski — and the combination of senior Terrence Butler and juniors Mason DeVries and Austin Boster were dependable as usual to open Southwest Conference play. Bottero finished 15-for-17 passin
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-09
Sixteen of Betty LaDuke’s life-size agricultural art pieces are now on permanent display at the Southern Oregon Research and Extension Center in Central Point. LaDuke, an Ashland-based artist and writer who has garnered an international reputation for her artwork, donated these pieces to the Extension Center and to Jackson County Master Gardeners in honor of her late husband, entomologist Peter Westigard . LaDuke is well known for her lifelong dedication to activist art, expressed in photography
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-09
Only a handful of people in North America make hats the way Art Fawcett does. There might be 200 who answer to the call of Western hatters, but there may not even be a dozen who make dress hats. It's an exacting craft, one that by its very nature roots out poor performers or low-cost competitors. Fawcett, a stone mason by trade, entered the world of hat making in an online chat room in the late 1980s. He began commercial production and selling his products online in 2006 after selling his busine
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-09
It's easy to say "wine" in Japanese. It's pronounced the same as in English. That, along with Japan's increased interest in imported wines, makes it possible for Cave Junction producer Ted Gerber to sell thousands of cases across the Pacific. Last year, Gerber, who owns Foris Vineyards and is one of the state's largest producers, received emails from Mottox wine distributors that he thought were spam. After checking with his sales and marketing director, Julianne Allen, he learned that Mottox wa
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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The pressures driving Jackson County’s relentlessly rising home prices have eased. Although the median sales price for existing single-family homes bumped up 4.5 percent during the third quarter, the pace of transactions declined 10.5 percent, according to figures compiled by the Southern Oregon Multiple Listing Service. The median price throughout the county rose year-over-year to $287,500 from $275,000, while the number of deals fell to 733 from 819. “The surge in the pricing we’ve seen over t
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-09
It took two helicopters and ground teams from multiple agencies to safely rescue a fallen hiker from Grizzly Peak Sunday afternoon. After an initial report about 11:15 a.m., Ashland Fire-Rescue and Mercy Flights responded to the summit, where a female hiker traveling with a group reportedly had fallen 25 feet, said Matt Freiheit, battalion chief with Ashland Fire-Rescue. It was difficult to determine exactly where the hiker and her group were, Freiheit said, so the agencies reached out to others
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-09
Three Si Casa Flores restaurants in Jackson County are shuttered, pending court-ordered liquidation proceedings. The Mexican food restaurants operated by Gregorio Martinez Rodriguez at Blue Sky Plaza and Larson Creek Plaza in Medford, and at the Shoppes at Exit 24 in Phoenix, are locked. A posting on the door at one location said removing property and assets from the premises is a federal offense and refers questions to local bankruptcy trustee Candace Amborn's office telephone number. Rodriguez