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Gold Hill city recorder resigns Thursday Jan 12, 2017 at 4:33 PM Jan 12, 2017 at 5:41 PM Buffy Pollock for the Mail Tribune Gold Hill City Council met in a special emergency session Wednesday to review and accept the resignation of longtime City Recorder Mary Goddard. Goddard's resignation, following months of water emergencies and shutoffs, lack of steady law enforcement for the town and, last year, numerous closed meetings over personnel issues
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2016 saw modest growth in local home prices New homes under construction are for sale along Talent Avenue in Talent. Mail Tribuine / Denise Baratta Thursday Jan 12, 2017 at 2:31 PM Jan 13, 2017 at 7:16 AM Greg Stiles Mail Tribune @GregMTBusiness In many respects, 2016 was just the kind of year Jackson County real estate agents like. Year-over-year sales activity grew modestly, turnaround time was faster and prices stayed within a sustainable rang
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Thai Garden a hidden gem in Central Point This lunch plate at Thai Garden includes orange chicken, brown rice and a pot sticker. Mail Tribune / Rebecca Scott Friday Jan 13, 2017 at 2:00 AM Jan 13, 2017 at 4:12 PM By Rebecca Scott for the Mail Tribune A trip to Central Point guarantees a genuine Thai food experience. Thai Garden offers humble flavors, good prices and reasonable portion sizes. My mom and I stopped in for lunch; our first meal out i
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Oregon bans weapons in state workplaces Thursday Jan 12, 2017 at 5:49 PM Jan 12, 2017 at 6:10 PM The Associated Press SALEM — Oregon officials banned state employees from carrying weapons in the workplace unless they're needed for their jobs, causing consternation Thursday among Republican leaders in the Legislature. The Oregon Department of Administrative Services said it imposed the ban, which became effective on Jan. 6, in hopes of "pro
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Standoff ends peacefully Medford police officers train guns on a house in the 500 block of Boardman Street where a reportedly armed and suicidal subject was holed up after a domestic dispute. Mail Tribune / Denise Baratta Thursday Jan 12, 2017 at 5:34 PM Jan 12, 2017 at 5:46 PM Police with guns drawn have ended a two-hour standoff with a reportedly suicidal man on Boardman Street in north Medford this evening. The standoff started after police re
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Trump’s big day begins with church, tea with Obamas Rev Luis Leon greets President-elect Donald Trump and his wife Melania as they arrive for a church service at St. JohnþÄôs Episcopal Church across from the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, on Donald Trump's inauguration day. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) Friday Jan 20, 2017 at 6:19 AM Jan 20, 2017 at 7:16 AM By The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Following t
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Fishing Report: Friday, Jan. 20 Friday Jan 20, 2017 at 12:01 AM OCEAN OUTLOOK COASTWIDE: Ocean conditions say stay away loud and clear this weekend, unless you're there to watch big surf from a high perch. Today will bring 25-knot winds and 17-foot swells, and that's the calmest day of the weekend. Saturday will bring 20-knot winds and swells up to 27 feet, while Sunday sees the swells drop to 18 feet but the winds will be gale-force and up to 40 knots. Those are no
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Fair prices for fine dining at Lark's Seared ahi served with parsnip puree at Larks restaurant in Medford. Photo by Sarah Lemon Friday Jan 20, 2017 at 12:01 AM Sarah Lemon for the Mail Tribune @thewholedish Stellar wine service has sent the reputation of Larks Home Kitchen Cuisine soaring statewide. The restaurants operated by Neuman Hotel Group in Ashland and Medford recently perched atop the Oregon Wine A-List. Oregon Wine Board and Oregon Wine Press singled out both L
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Endless Winter James Vermaak of Brookings rides his big board on a wave Sunday morning. Photo by Andy Atkinson Friday Jan 20, 2017 at 12:01 AM Mark Freeman Mail Tribune @MTwriterFreeman BROOKINGS — After slicing through the Pacific surf just off the mouth of the storm-fueled Chetco River last Sunday, Noah Bruce says he knows exactly why the crowds on the beach will watch him but never join him.   "The cold weather and lack of women," Bruce says. "Most su
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Get Out: Friday, Jan. 20 Friday Jan 20, 2017 at 12:01 AM To have an event listed in Get Out!, email the information to [email protected]   Sterling Mine Ditch Trail work party Sunday, Jan. 22: Siskiyou Uplands Trail Association is planning a work party on the Sterling Mine Ditch Trail from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The group will take a scenic 4-5 mile roundtrip hike while doing some lopping, digging and hand-saw work. Group will meet at the corner of Sterling Cre
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Oregon lawmakers release budget proposal with big cuts Thursday Jan 19, 2017 at 6:35 PM The Associated Press SALEM — Oregon's top legislative budget writers have unveiled a plan to close a looming $1.8 billion shortfall by making cuts across state government — a plan they hope lawmakers and voters will reject as unacceptable. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports that during a Thursday news conference Sen. Richard Devlin, D-Tualatin, and Rep. Nancy Nathanson, D-
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Oregon man admits groping 13-year-old girl on flight Thursday Jan 19, 2017 at 5:47 PM Jan 19, 2017 at 5:47 PM By Steven DuBois The Associated Press PORTLAND — An Oregon man accused of groping a 13-year-old girl on a flight from Dallas to Portland pleaded guilty Thursday, accepting an agreement with prosecutors that will require him to register as a sex offender for 15 years. Chad Camp, 26, was scheduled to be sentenced May 3 with a recomme
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Agencies raise concerns about hazards at OnTrack housing Bed bugs were reported at OnTrack facilities on Holly Street. Mail Tribune / Jamie Lusch Tuesday Jan 17, 2017 at 12:01 AM Damian Mann Mail Tribune @reporterdm Bed bugs, rats, an alleged drug deal and a baby burned by a heater are on a list of concerns local organizations and others have raised about OnTrack facilities in the last year. “We have recommended to our CASAs that they not enter OnTrack facilities
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Sickler appointed as new Jackson County sheriff Nate Sickler Tuesday Jan 17, 2017 at 10:00 AM Jan 17, 2017 at 3:18 PM Vickie Aldous Mail Tribune @VickieAldous Capt. Nate Sickler is the new Jackson County sheriff. Jackson County commissioners voted unanimously today to appoint Sickler as sheriff, filling a vacancy created when Sheriff Corey Falls left his post at the end of December to become the new director of police services and 21st century po
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Rule easing public lands transfer concerns hunters, others FILE - In this July 23, 2003 file photo, a pronghorn antelope doe keeps watch as two fawns peer out from tall grass in the heart of southeastern Oregon's Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge near Adel, Ore. A change in U.S. House rules making it easier to transfer millions of acres of federal public lands to states is worrying hunters and outdoor enthusiasts who fear losing access. Lawmakers earlier this month passed a rule eliminating
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In the face of fear, love People pose for a drone photo Monday on the Ashland Plaza to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Photo by Tyrel Stumpff Monday Jan 16, 2017 at 7:23 PM Jan 16, 2017 at 7:24 PM By Julie Akins for the Mail Tribune The theme of this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. celebration Monday in Ashland was about day-to-day activism. The call to a capacity crowd, which wrapped an overflow audience around the front of the H
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A run for Grace Susan Holt, holding a picture of her daughter Grace Holt, helped create a memorial run set for Saturday. JAMIE LUSCH / MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday Jan 12, 2017 at 2:00 AM Jan 13, 2017 at 7:18 AM Dan Jones Mail Tribune @danjonesmt Grace Holt loved life. The Medford teenager rescued and cared for animals. She helped foster kittens and was crazy about Sanctuary One, her mom Susan says. Grace embraced nature, gardening, arts and cooking, an
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Since You Asked: Applegate fish trap checked at month's end Tuesday Jan 17, 2017 at 12:01 AM It was nice to see in Friday's Oregon Outdoors section that Rogue River winter steelhead are already all the way up to Cole Rivers Hatchery. But what about the Applegate River? Are the steelhead all the way up yet to the trap at Applegate Dam? I like to fish the Applegate in the winter and normally don't start very seriously until February, but if the steelhead are all the way up
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More wet weather is coming Monday Jan 16, 2017 at 2:57 PM Jan 16, 2017 at 2:57 PM Ryan Pfeil Mail Tribune @RyanPfeil Wet, windy weather is returning to southwest Oregon this week. A storm, expected to arrive late Tuesday on the Oregon Coast, is forecast to reach the Rogue Valley by Wednesday morning and drop about a half-inch of rain on Medford and Ashland by nightfall, according to the National Weather Service. Grants Pass is expected to get hit
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Ashland school makeup day announced Monday Jan 16, 2017 at 2:30 PM Jan 16, 2017 at 4:19 PM Local report Students in Ashland public schools will attend school Friday, March 24, to make up one of the four days lost to snow closures earlier this month, the district has announced. The district is still considering how it will make up the other three days that were canceled Jan. 3-6, and, in a message posted on the Ashland School District website, ask