Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-11
Central Point School District plans to put a bond levy on the May 21 ballot at an amount "not to exceed $82 million," but they say homeowners won't pay any more in taxes than they do now. "Our community has been very clear that they want our students to be safe and comfortable without increasing their taxes," said Cathy Salmon, chair of the Central Point School Board. "I'm very hopeful we can accomplish this with the bond we are presenting." The board approved the language for a ballot title at
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Teams have been chosen for the 12th annual Mail Tribune All-Star Basketball Classic , and voting is open to fans who want to take part in choosing the starters. The boys and girls contests are Friday, March 15, at Kids Unlimited in Medford, 821 N. Riverside Ave. The games showcase the top high school players in Southern Oregon, from Class 6A to 1A. The girls game starts at 6 p.m., the boys at 7:30. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for students, and kids under 10-and-under get in free. Fans vote on
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-13
Investigators believe it was a fight over a 15-year-old girl that led to a 20-year-old Medford man stabbing a 21-year-old man during a Sunday attack in Hawthorne Park that led to the arrest of three men, authorities said. The girl apparently was involved with suspect Shilo Hill Hutson but was recently associating with victim Michael Gregory and his friends, and Medford Police Department detectives suspect that triangle is at the heart of Sunday's violence. "That's not set in stone, but it's what
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Steve Lightman has been named president of Harry & David. He succeeds former CEO and president Craig Johnson, who resigned in February. David Taiclet, 1-800-Flowers' Gourmet Food Group president, said Lightman is moving to Medford in two weeks and assumes his new duties March 23. Lightman's 30-plus-year career in direct marketing includes stops at Boston Apparel Group, Orchard Brands, Crosstown Traders, Sharper Image and Fingerhut companies. Lightman will report to Taiclet. Joe Pititto, 1-8
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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The Mail Tribune All-Star Basketball Classic is Friday, March 15, at Kids Unlimited. Fans choose the starters for each girls and boys team, and they can vote as often as they like. Voting is open until noon the day of the games. To cast your votes, go here .
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Southern Oregon has a new bakery centrally located in the Medford Center: Delish opened quietly last month and serves up a tempting assortment of sweets and savories. This carefully crafted bakery showcases a rotating selection of cakes, cookies, quiche and more that are as beautiful to look at as they are delicious to experience. For years, Susan Prunty was corporate through and through, baking on the sly to relax and entertain or for the odd catering gig. She ran a desk for years before decidi
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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WASHINGTON (AP) — For decades, there were tales from fishermen and tourists, even lots of photos, of a mysterious killer whale that just didn't look like all the others, but scientists had never seen one. Now they have. An international team of researchers says they found a couple dozen of these distinctly different orcas roaming in the oceans off southern Chile in January. Scientists are waiting for DNA tests from a tissue sample but think it may be a distinct species. The National Oceani
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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After champion wrestler Brock Gutches graduated from Southern Oregon University, he saw the potential for immense profits in cannabis and decided to launch his own business, which he called The Grow. It’s fun and he likes the people in the business — “the responsible ones,” he cautions — but it’s like any farming. You have to learn a lot, it takes a piece of change to do it, you’re dealing with a lot of government regulation, and a lot can go wron
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KLAMATH FALLS — Southern Oregon couldn’t produce enough offense to close a manageable second-half gap against 12th-ranked Oregon Tech, falling 70-61 on Tuesday at Danny Miles Court in men’s basketball. OIT guard Seth Erickson scored all 15 of his points after halftime, going 3-for-4 from 3-point range to lift the Owls (21-5, 12-2 Cascade Conference) on a night when Mitchell Fink and Tyler Hieb — who totaled 41 in their first matchup with the Raiders (17-8, 7-7) — co
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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A judge found a man guilty Thursday of murdering his girlfriend in the summer of 2016 at his home outside Jacksonville. Jackson County Judge Lorenzo Mejia ruled that Todd Levi Wilcox, 37, is guilty of the July 26, 2016, bludgeoning death of 23-year-old Alexis Lynn Stormo near Ruch, Jackson County Circuit Court records show. Wilcox, who waived his right to a jury trial, was found guilty on the seventh day of proceedings. Mejia made his ruling after hearing the facts of the case from Senior Deputy
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa — For the second time in team history, Southern Oregon University advanced out of pool play at the NAIA Volleyball Championships on Thursday at the Tyson Events Center, though not quite in the fashion it had hoped. The 10th-ranked Raiders were five-set losers in their final Pool G match against No. 7 Viterbo (Wis.) — 18-25, 19-25, 25-15, 25-19, 15-13 — which created a three-way tie for first place in the group between SOU, Viterbo and Jamestown (N.D.) with matc
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Former South Medford standout Ashley Bolston, now a senior on the Portland State women’s basketball team, was named Big Sky player of the week following a near-historic performance in a game last Saturday. Bolston came within one steal of recording a quadruple-double in leading the Vikings to a 92-79 win over crosstown rival Portland. Bolston finished with 19 points, 12 assists, 10 rebounds and nine steals against the Pilots — one steal shy of only the second quadruple-double in the
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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What happened in the court case involving the murder of Alexis Lynn Stormo? Her friends who live out of state would like to know. — Larry Todd Levi Wilcox, 36, remains lodged in the Jackson County Jail with no bail on charges of murder and first-degree manslaughter. He allegedly killed Stormo, 23, July 26, 2016, in the Applegate Valley in what investigators believe was a domestic-violence related homicide. It’s not unusual, Larry, for murder cases to take a year or more to res
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Former Republican state Rep. Dennis Richardson says he'll run for Oregon secretary of state. Richardson announced his plans on Thursday, nearly a year after he lost his campaign for governor to Democrat John Kitzhaber. Richardson, a Central Point resident, says the state has failed to restore the public's trust in government after the influence-peddling allegations led Kitzhaber to resign three months after the election. Richardson touted his experience as co-chairman of the Ways and Means Commi
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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RALEIGH, N.C. — Kansas coach Bill Self sees big holes when he looks at his roster after losing three starters, including Associated Press All-American Devonte’ Graham. The voters in the AP Top 25 poll see something different: a roster restocked so well that Jayhawks will start the season as the nation’s top team. Kansas checked in at No. 1 in the preseason poll released Monday, earning the top spot to start a season for the third time in program history, all under Self. The Jay
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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The second annual Cascade Conference Wrestling Championships will be hard-pressed to recreate last year’s drama, but Southern Oregon University would welcome more of the same. At the first-ever CCC meet, held in Ashland, the top four teams were separated by three points in the team race with SOU and Menlo (Calif.) standing as co-champions. It was the Raiders’ eighth conference or regional title in 10 years, their second in a row, and their 15th overall under head coach Mike Ritchey.
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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CALDWELL, Idaho — The 14th-ranked Southern Oregon women’s basketball team gave itself plenty of cushion to survive a late drought, blitzing College of Idaho early for its first Cascade Conference win, 67-57 on Saturday night at the J.A. Albertson Center. Freshman guard Kalei Iwami scored a team-high 15 points off the bench, knocking down four 3-pointers, and the Raiders (5-3 overall, 1-1 CCC) led by as many as 26 points in the second quarter and 34 in the third a night after a tight
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Southern Oregon’s performance at the NAIA Volleyball Championships translated to the team’s highest-ever postseason ranking at No. 8 in the season’s final NAIA Top 25 coaches’ poll, which was released Wednesday by the national office. Since the NAIA began releasing postseason rankings in 2011, the Raiders have been included four times: They were No. 11 in 2011 and No. 13 in both 2014 and 2015. They topped those spots by appearing in the national q
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Following a season full of history, Makayla Hoyt and Taylor Ristvedt became the ninth and 10th Southern Oregon University volleyball players ever selected to NAIA All-America teams, which were announced Tuesday by the national office. Hoyt, a sophomore middle, and Ristvedt, a junior right-side hitter, both landed on the second team as just the third set of Raider teammates to attain the distinction in the same season. A total of 42 players spread out across the first, second and third teams were
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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MERCED, Calif. — Freshman point guard Kalei Iwami sparked Southern Oregon off the bench with 14 points and the 12th-ranked Raiders limited UC Merced to 30-percent shooting in a 72-49 win Monday night at Hostetler Court. Iwami knocked down 4 of 7 attempts from 3-point range. Daranda Hinkey (10 points) and Delaney Sparling (seven) both hit two from beyond the arc in a well-rounded performance. SOU (2-0) shot 42 percent for the game but made 20 of 40 attempts in the second half, outscoring th