Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-10
One thing Southern Oregon won’t have to worry about is getting cheated out of top-notch competition in its introduction to the NAIA men’s soccer national championship site. Seeded 13th, the Raiders (17-2-3 overall) will play the first game in a schedule of eight second-round contests at 11 a.m. Monday against No. 4-seeded Rio Grande (Ohio) at OC Great Soccer Park in Irvine, California. The Red Storm (19-0-0) held the No. 1 spot in the final NAIA Top 25 coaches’ poll and is the
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-10
ASHLAND — The NAIA’s top scorer got loose against Southern Oregon again on Friday night, but this time the Raiders had enough firepower to neutralize him in their 100-90 defeat of Multnomah at Lithia Motors Pavilion. Multnomah guard Justin Martin, who hit the Raiders up for 40 points in a Lions win on Dec. 30, dropped 39 more in the second meeting. He registered 29 of those, however, after 10 unanswered points put SOU up 15 with 17 minutes to go, and was unable to get the Lions close
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-09
Oregon hunters will get a chance to cash in on their big-game mounts under a new rule allowing the one-time sale of hunting trophies. The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission opted late Thursday to allow hunters 65 or older to sell their deer, elk or other mounts, as well as antlers still attached to the skull, of animals they have killed in Oregon. In the past, only mounts unclaimed from taxidermists and those offered in estate sales could legally be sold. Mounts of animals not native to Oregon,
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-10
The owner of regional grocery chain Ray's Food Place has acquired three Market of Choice stores from Wright's Foodliner Inc. of Eugene, including two Josephine County stores. C&K Markets Inc. of Brookings will rename two stores in Grants Pass and one in Cottage Grove when the changeover occurs following closing on Oct. 31. This is a perfect fit for our geography, said Doug Nidiffer, president of Brookings-based C&K Markets. These stores are right in the heart of our traditional territory and com
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-10
Do you know whether Allegiant Air is leaving Medford? I have been trying to book a flight to Las Vegas in November for two months. The last date available in October 28. I have contacted Allegiant Air and received only generic replies. Thought you all might have heard something. — Tom D., Medford Allegiant Air is still scheduling flights in and out of Medford, primarily to its home base in Las Vegas. And Allegiant still is flying to Los Angeles International, as well. Airlines often releas
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-10
On Mt. Ashland, everybody wants to see a big dump of snow like the one that fell last week: two feet in two days. But before skiers and snowboarders can come back up and have fun, a lot of people have to work really hard. WATCH:
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-09
After 12 years driving every school bus route in the Rogue Valley, Pastor Lee Gregory will tell you that sixth-graders are no less likely to see bad behavior on routes to elementary schools than they would on those to middle school. "What I'm really saying is, hey, you're worried about their behavior and influence when they get on an older bus?" he said. "You oughta be concerned about influence they're having on the younger buses at the same time." Sixth-graders busing with older students is one
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-09
"Bolivar: American Liberator," by Marie Arana; Simon & Schuster (604 pages, $35) Deep into Marie Arana's wonderful new biography of Simon Bolivar, "the George Washington of South America," there's a deliciously unexpected pause in the action. It's 1816, and Bolivar has set sail from Haiti. He's on his way back to Venezuela, with an army set to take on the hated Spanish colonial authorities. At the island of St. Thomas, he ostensibly stops for "supplies." In reality, his fleet of ships has anchor
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-09
Four candidates will compete for two positions on the Eagle Point School Board in the May 19 district election. Ballots are expected to be mailed out Friday. Current board members Ted Dole and Mary Ann Olsen are not seeking re-election, leaving Jackson County Security’s Chief Operations Officer Jason Libby to challenge pediatric physical therapist Ana Mannenbach for Position 1 and stay-at-home mom and small business owner Nita Lundberg to challenge retired police officer Terry Marks for P
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-09
On the heels of a record-setting fourth-quarter performance and its highest revenue year since 2006, Lithia Motors is making changes at the top. Longtime Lithia Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Sid DeBoer, 68, said Wednesday he was turning over day-to-day operations to his son, Bryan DeBoer, 44, who has been president of the company since January 2006. The Medford auto retailer, with 86 stores in 11 states, posted earnings of $16.4 million in the fourth quarter compared with $4.2 million a y
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-08
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Legislative leaders in Oregon released a conservative budget framework asking for cuts across nearly all state programs, despite projections the state will take in historic levels of revenue. Co-chairs of the Joint Committee on Ways and Means released their budget plan on Thursday, which is considered the starting point for the final budget package. The proposal calls for an approximate 5 percent reduction across all services except education and healthcare. The plan als
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-09
Oregon’s dismal graduation rate as the country’s fourth-worst means way too many of our high school students are not succeeding. Today, one in four students fail to graduate with their class. And for the children entering kindergarten this year, the way we’re tracking is that one out of every five won’t graduate. And, of those who go directly to community college, 75 percent must take basic (remedial) education classes before they can earn credits toward their degree. Bot
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-09
CENTRAL POINT — It took Crater half the game to find its rhythm, but when it did, the Comets were a force, forging their way back to the Class 5A girls basketball state tournament. Spurred by the defensive aggression of reserve guards Taryn Dance and Presley Robison and the offensive excellence of Sydney Gray, Crater rallied from eight points down early in the third quarter for a 41-26 win Saturday in the first round of the playoffs. Crater (21-4) next heads to Corvallis for the state tour
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-08
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — As a measles outbreak in southwest Washington continues to grow, hundreds of people, including families, approached the Oregon state Capitol to protest a measure making it harder for parents to opt out of school vaccination requirements. "There is no measles emergency," said Sarah Bacon during a speech at a protest rally. Bacon is the executive director of Oregonians for Medical Freedom, a grassroots organization that advocates for parents' freedom to make medical decisi
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-09
Southern Oregon pitcher Gabby Sandoval’s hot start has netted her third Cascade Conference softball pitcher of the week award of the season. In the Raiders’ conference-opening series against Eastern Oregon, Sandoval threw 162/3 innings over three appearances without allowing an earned run, striking out 13 and yielding seven hits. She pitched two complete games, allowing four hits and three unearned runs in the opener and tossing a two-hit shutout in the third and final CCC counter of
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-08
The Eagle Point School District race began amid conflict-of-interest allegations between board members in the Voters' Pamphlet. Now it's closing with claims of corruption and election fraud from a disgruntled grandmother. Brenda Luba admits she's angry that the School Board refuses to allow her grandchildren to transfer out of the district. But Luba insists her claims that the board's contentious and "corrupt" behavior has turned the district into a "podunk Peyton Place" are not based entirely o
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-08
Computer breaches like the one feared this week inside a vendor selling hunting and fishing licenses for Oregon and other states typically target Social Security numbers to file bogus income-tax returns that stiff the government and give victims headaches, federal agents say. About two-thirds of all identity theft cases these days are fraudulent tax returns usually sniffed out by Internal Revenue Service computer filters. But innocent citizens are often surprised to learn that crooks need just y
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-08
Fresh off of diva Bette Midler's North American tour, Ashland-based guitar player Jeff Pevar is back on the road with Jazz Is Dead, an inventive jazz ensemble that interprets classic Grateful Dead music, and a new album, "Grateful Jazz."{br class="hardreturn" /} "We honor the Dead's compositions with new life," Pevar says from behind the wheel somewhere in the Midwest. "We change it up our own way, versus being a tribute band and trying to sound like them."{br class="hardreturn" /} After an 10-y
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-08
Legislation to change the name of the Tule Lake Unit of the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument to Tule Lake National Monument has passed the House and Senate and now awaits an expected signature of approval from President Donald Trump. "It was something we hoped would happen," said Angela Sutton, acting superintendent for the Tule Lake Unit and Lava Beds National Monument. She said no formal steps will be taken until Trump acts on the bill. Tule Lake's name change is a small par
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-03-08
Donelan Andrews has always been attuned to detail. "I have a folder for everything," said Andrews, 59, a high school teacher who lives in Thomaston, Georgia, about 65 miles south of Atlanta. When she decided to plan a getaway to England with some girlfriends, they purchased travel insurance, as they each had someone in their lives who was elderly or sick. Through the website Squaremouth she bought a policy that cost $454, the lowest price she could find to cover all of her travel costs, should s