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Love your water: Use it wisely By Julie Smitherman Apr 18, 2021 12:00 AM A A Here in the Rogue Valley, we are fortunate enough to have access to reliable, high-quality drinking water — just by turning on the tap. We wake up in the morning, take a shower, brush our teeth, grab a cup of coffee, and head out for the day. While having water readily available at the tap may make it seem like there is an abundance of water, the reality is that water supplies are becoming more stressed each year. With
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Closing day at Mt. Ashland By Andy Atkinson Updated: Apr 18, 2021 03:10 PM A A 7 View all photos Andy Atkinson / Mail TribuneMountain Manager Hiram Towle grabs cans of food brought by Oregon Tech students from Klamath Falls to receive a daily lift ticket at Mt. Ashland Sunday. Andy Atkinson / Mail TribuneSkiers head down the “Dream" slope at Mt. Ashland Sunday. Andy Atkinson / Mail TribuneA skier and snowboarder get ready to head downhill at Mt. Ashland Sunday. Andy Atkinson / Mail TribuneSnowbo
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PREP BASEBALL: Zanni helps Phoenix move to 3-0 Updated: Apr 17, 2021 09:08 PM A A PHOENIX — Brandon Zanni was productive in both ends of a doubleheader, leading Phoenix to a baseball sweep of Klamath Union Saturday, 8-2 and 6-2. The wins improved the Pirates to 3-0 on the season. Zanni went 3-for-4 in the first game as Phoenix scored in all but one inning. He also had five stolen bases to go with three runs. Eli Page went 2-for-2 and Ian Wood had two RBIs. Page earned the pitching win, going 4 2
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’What we need mostly is money’ By Damian Mann Apr 17, 2021 06:00 PM A A The Almeda fire leveled Bear Lake Estates in Phoenix. Dave Killen/The Oregonian Wildfire bills debated in Salem Wildfires and the housing crisis in Jackson County have fired up Salem lawmakers this session. “The Legislature understands the need to invest in wildfire recovery,” said Rep. Pam Marsh, D-Ashland. Marsh has sponsored almost a dozen bills that target wildfire prevention, promote affordable housing and help hard-hit
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COLLEGE ROUNDUP: Raiders finish sweep of Yotes Updated: Apr 17, 2021 09:12 PM A A ASHLAND — The Southern Oregon University softball team’s path to a third consecutive Cascade Conference championship cleared up considerably after wrapping up a four-game sweep of College of Idaho on Saturday at University Field. The No. 1-ranked Raiders rolled 6-0 in the third and final CCC game of the series, then finished off the non-conference finale 8-0 in six innings for their 12th and 13th straight wins. The
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Medford unveils Summer Experience By Joe Zavala Apr 18, 2021 12:15 AM A A Jamie Lusch / Mail Tribune Scot MacLeod works with fifth-grader Yasir Perez on a reading assignment Tuesday at Jefferson Elementary School. It’s like summer school with a K-12 twist The Medford School District wants to turn summer school into something more like summer fun with a new two-month program from mid-June to mid-August that’s been dubbed Summer Experience . Promoted on the MSD website as “hands-on, minds-on and w
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Baking with hemp hearts By Dave Smigelski Oct 13, 2018 12:00 AM A A Walk into the baking or cereal section of just about any grocery store in Southern Oregon, including Food 4 Less, Albertsons, Costco or the Ashland Food Co-op, and you’ll find neat little packages of hemp hearts, the tasty inner portions of hemp seeds. Sold largely as a breakfast cereal or smoothie ingredient, hemp hearts make a tasty addition to many baked goods, including muffins, cookies and pie crusts. The first thing to kno
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Poetry is good for you By Sharon Johnson Apr 18, 2021 12:00 AM A A April is National Poetry Month. I have it on good report that “poetry can heal.” If you witnessed Amanda Gorman’s incredible reading of her poem “The Hill We Climb” at this year’s presidential inauguration, you may already believe that. The amazing Ms. Gorman has a new children’s book coming out in the fall; I have pre-ordered it and plan to use it in holiday gifting to my grandchildren. There is another book about the healing po
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A far cry from ‘summer school’ By Mail Tribune Editorial Board Apr 18, 2021 12:00 AM A A We can all remember the sense of freedom at the end of the school year, when the summer stretched ahead, promising sun-splashed days of leisure, family trips, swimming and sand-castle building. “Summer school” was something to be avoided if possible, or endured as a punishment for failing to keep up with grade-level peers. This summer, however, the Medford School District will offer something far more inviti
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This Day In Music: April 17th By Robert Hastings Updated: Apr 17, 2021 08:00 AM A A On this day in music, “Joy To The World” by Three Dog Night climbs to the number one spot. Brad Paisley celebrates the birth of his second child with a special song. Raymond V Raymond by Usher hits the top of the charts. President Nixon makes a song request for Johnny Cash’s special White House performance.
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These are the Daze of our Lives By Robert Galvin Apr 16, 2021 04:30 AM A A The Twitch user “ludwig,“ on left, shown in his race car bed during his 31-day subathon. Your attention span for this cognitive offering on the ever-evolving category once clearly defined as the “performing arts” could depend solely on how much of the following sentence you care to follow: This past week, ludwig (no capital L) established a new subathon record for Twitch — surpassing the mark formerly held by Ninja — as h
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PREP ROUNDUP: Phoenix heats up to sweep KU Updated: Apr 16, 2021 08:26 PM A A TALENT — Slow starts are never a good thing but the Phoenix softball team proved Friday that the most important thing is how you finish. Phoenix fell behind 6-0 after playing a half-inning Friday against Klamath Union but rallied in quick order to set the stage for what would be an impressive doubleheader sweep, 17-7 and 13-0 in five innings apiece, at Hagler-James Field. “I think the best thing about our team is that
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Phoenix pollinator garden hit by fire gets some love By Tony Boom Updated: Apr 16, 2021 05:04 PM A A 8 View all photos Andy Atkinson / Mail TribuneAnnie Drager places a plant in a pollinator garden Thursday that was burned during the Almeda fire at Blue Heron Park in Phoenix. Andy Atkinson / Mail TribuneAnnie Drager replants a pollinator garden Thursday that was burned during the Almeda fire at Blue Heron Park in Phoenix. Andy Atkinson / Mail TribuneVolunteers replant a pollinator garden Thursda
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SOU announces tuition increase By Joe Zavala Updated: Apr 16, 2021 05:13 PM A A file photoA student returns to campus after picking up lunch in between Shasta Hall and McLoughlin Hall at SOU. The cost of tuition for Southern Oregon University students will increase across the board next academic year, and the university targeted its smallest rate hike for in-state undergraduates, according to numbers released by SOU Friday. Oregon undergraduates will see a $5 increase to $201 per credit hour for
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Emergency services, April 17 By Nick Morgan Apr 17, 2021 08:00 AM A A Felony arrests Sodomy – Matthew Michael Gomez, 32, of the 1700 block of Inverness Drive, Medford. Medford police arrested Gomez Thursday on felony charges of first-degree sodomy, first-degree sexual abuse, first-degree unlawful sexual penetration and attempted first-degree sodomy. He was held in the Jackson Count Jail Friday on $500,000 bail. Drugs – Christopher Boyd Stevenson, 39, of the 900 block of North Fifth Street, Jacks
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Mail Tribune Fishing Report, 4/16/2021 By Mark Freeman Apr 16, 2021 01:00 AM A A OCEAN OUTLOOK COASTWIDE: Friday’s forecast calls for 5-knot winds and swells up to 4 feet in the morning, with Saturday’s forecast calling for winds up to 10 knots and mixed swells up to 3 feet in morning fog. Sunday’s forecast calls for much of the same. The general marine bag limit is six fish in aggregate. Anglers can keep just one copper, quillback or China rockfish when fishing from a boat. Boat anglers can not
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As mask mandates end, Oregon bucks trend with permanent rule By AP Updated: Apr 17, 2021 11:46 AM A A Residents wearing masks walk in downtown Lake Oswego, Ore., on Sunday, April 11, 2021. Tens of thousands of Oregon residents are angry about a proposal to make permanent an emergency rule that requires masks and social distancing in the state's businesses and schools to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Opponents worry about government overreach and fear that state officials won't remove the mask
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$1.8 million coming for wildfire mitigation projects in Southern Oregon By Ryan Pfeil Updated: Apr 16, 2021 05:10 PM A A Oregon Department of Forestry crews respond to the Goldbrook fire near Grants Pass Wednesday, one of 20 fires ODF has responded to in Jackson and Josephine counties over the past two weeks. The agency hopes to mitigate fire danger with several planned projects in Southern Oregon, funded by $1.8 million from the state. (Photo courtesy ODF) Projects in Jackson County include fue
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JoCo DA clears deputy who fired near Selma double homicide By Nick Morgan Updated: Apr 17, 2021 01:37 PM A A Misc. Emergency A Josephine County sheriff’s deputy who fired at a truck that fled the scene of a double homicide investigation has been cleared of wrongdoing and will return to active duty. Josephine County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Jim Geiger fired five shots at a pickup that rolled up to a police staging area shortly after midnight March 25 on a logging road several miles off Lakeshore Driv
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ACLU sues Ashland over actor’s arrest By Nick Morgan Updated: Apr 16, 2021 04:47 PM A A Deputies Michael Hammond and Brady Bjorkland walk away from Juan Anthony "Tony" Sancho after chaining him to a grate in a Jackson County Jail dry cell. Sancho filed a lawsuit surrounding his treatment at the jail earlier this week. Photo filed in U.S. District Court in Medford The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a $2 million lawsuit against Ashland police, saying the April 2019 arrest that preceded a