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Medford and Ashland celebrate legacy of MLK Jr. Ashland ensemble UNIVERSES performs a voice-song piece to a packed house during the 2016 Martin Luther King Jr. celebration in the Historic Ashland Armory. Mail Tribune / Denise Baratta Friday Jan 13, 2017 at 12:01 AM Angela Decker for the Mail Tribune Vickie Aldous Mail Tribune @VickieAldous The Rogue Valley will celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and its vibrant, diverse community with celebrations in Ashland
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Movie review: Ben Affleck brings Lehane’s ‘Live by Night’ alive Graciela (Zoe Saldana) and Joe (Ben Affleck) get to know each other. (Appian Way) Friday Jan 13, 2017 at 12:01 AM Ed Symkus More Content Now Dennis Lehane’s slick and fun and nasty 2012 gangster novel “Live by Night” gets trimmed down for director-star and screenplay-adaptor Ben Affleck’s movie. But even though some choice scenes have been eliminated (hey, thi
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Chasing the Big Dump A cross-country skier glides down the groomed track at Mount Shasta Nordic Center. Photo courtesy of Edgar Hee Friday Jan 13, 2017 at 2:00 AM Jan 13, 2017 at 2:54 PM Mark Freeman Mail Tribune @MTwriterFreeman A group of Southern Oregon Nordic Club members had a fabulous bluebird day Friday of cross-country skiing around Mount Shasta, but by Saturday morning it became quite clear that whoever did their snow dance the previous
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Our View: Medical marijuana's tangled web Friday Jan 13, 2017 at 12:01 AM Jackson County seems headed for a showdown with medical marijuana growers, and it may take the Legislature to sort things out. After inviting medical marijuana growers operating on rural residential land to apply to be grandfathered in under county regulations that ban the practice, the county has denied all those applications. Eight cases are scheduled for appeal hearings before hearings officers
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Quick work with a spike strip ends Medford stolen car chase Dakota Garza Thursday Jan 12, 2017 at 2:19 PM Jan 12, 2017 at 4:58 PM Ryan Pfeil Mail Tribune @RyanPfeil A Medford police officer was in the right place at the right time Wednesday afternoon, taking a break from another case to toss down spike strips just as a fleeing stolen vehicle passed by. The car, a 2009 BMW sport utility vehicle, had been stolen during a burglary Tuesday on Moon Te
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Restaurant Inspections: December 2016 Thursday Jan 12, 2017 at 10:10 AM Jan 12, 2017 at 11:52 AM Jackson County health officials inspected 143 restaurants in December, and 87 earned perfect scores of 100. One, King Wah, 1182 Court St., Medford, failed its inspection Dec. 19, scoring 60 points, below the failure mark of 70 points. Critical violations included improper hand-washing techniques among a kitchen staff and waitstaff membe
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Candor and humor fill 'The Odd Couple' Mark Ropers and Roy Rains face off as mismatched roomies Felix Ungar and Oscar Madison in Next Stage's "The Odd Couple." Mail Tribune / Denise Baratta Wednesday Jan 11, 2017 at 2:00 PM Jan 12, 2017 at 6:42 AM By Evalyn Hansen for the Mail Tribune It’s men’s poker night in the Manhattan apartment of the “divorced, broken, and sloppy,” Oscar Madison says. He cracks a beer that spray
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Letters to the Editor, Jan. 10 Tuesday Jan 10, 2017 at 2:00 AM Jan 11, 2017 at 7:13 AM Improve the ACA Have you had cancer? Do you have a loved one or a friend who has had cancer? If so, then you should be concerned about two things: access to affordable, quality health care and a healthy environment to live in, i.e., clean air, clean water and chemical-free food. Contact your representative in Congress and urge him/her to improve the Affordable
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Energy chief: Bid to revive Nevada nuclear waste dump doomed Wednesday Jan 11, 2017 at 7:29 PM By Matthew Daly The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Any effort to revive the long-dormant nuclear waste dump at Nevada's Yucca Mountain is doomed to fail because the project lacks support from elected officials in the state, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said Wednesday. A 30-year fight over where to store the country's nuclear waste has convinced him that "a consent-based
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Our View: Ski area proves its economic worth Thursday Jan 12, 2017 at 12:01 AM If there were any doubts about the Mt. Ashland Ski Area's economic value to Southern Oregon's economy, the record month it posted in December should erase them. The community-owned ski area drew more than 22,000 skier visits during the month, 451 percent more than the year before. Revenue for December topped $1 million, a record, exceeding budget projections by 51 percent. The Mt. Ashland Asso
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Central Point hosts MLK celebration Wednesday Jan 11, 2017 at 4:54 PM Jan 11, 2017 at 4:54 PM Central Point will hold its fourth annual celebration of Martin Luther King Day from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 12, at Crater Performing Arts Center, 655 N. Third St., Central Point. The event is free, but those attending are asked to bring a nonperishable food item to donate to Maslow Project, which helps homeless youths and their families. Students on
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Medford can be a major city, consultant says Jon Roberts Wednesday Jan 11, 2017 at 4:36 PM Jan 11, 2017 at 5:22 PM Greg Stiles Mail Tribune @GregMTBusiness Jon Roberts looks at things through a different lens, which means he often sees things others skip over or ignore. Roberts, managing director of consulting firm TIP Strategies, looks for disruptive influences that change the world. He will be the keynote speaker Jan. 26 for the 14th annual Sou
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PERS debate returns to Oregon Legislature Wednesday Jan 11, 2017 at 5:23 PM Jan 11, 2017 at 5:27 PM By Teck Sickinger The Oregonian/OregoLive SALEM — Sen. Tim Knopp, R-Bend, and Jeff Kruse, R-Roseburg, teed up what could be the most contentious debate of the upcoming legislative session by introducing two bills to make money-saving changes to Oregon's public employee retirement system. If, that is, Democrats allow a hearing on either measu
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PERS debate returns to Oregon Legislature Wednesday Jan 11, 2017 at 5:23 PM Jan 11, 2017 at 5:27 PM By Teck Sickinger The Oregonian/OregoLive SALEM — Sen. Tim Knopp, R-Bend, and Jeff Kruse, R-Roseburg, teed up what could be the most contentious debate of the upcoming legislative session by introducing two bills to make money-saving changes to Oregon's public employee retirement system. If, that is, Democrats allow a hearing on either measu
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Medical pot grows denied Medical marijuana growers have paid $1,700 to apply for a non-conforming use permit on rural-residential land but so far have been denied. Mail Tribune photo / Jamie Lusch Wednesday Jan 11, 2017 at 4:17 PM Jan 11, 2017 at 6:43 PM Vickie Aldous Mail Tribune @VickieAldous Pot growers are crying foul because Jackson County so far is refusing to grandfather in existing medical marijuana grows on rural-residential land. A spri
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Letters to the Editor, Jan. 12 Thursday Jan 12, 2017 at 12:01 AM Thanks for openness Regardless of who is chosen by the Jackson County commissioners, I would like to thank them for their openness and transparency in their search of the new sheriff. With the backing of the majority of the Jackson County commissioners, a community panel was formed. When calls were made to have a minority representative inserted, the request was granted. Also two members of the panel were f
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Rogue floods at Agness? No worries there Thursday Jan 12, 2017 at 12:01 AM Mark Freeman Mail Tribune @MTwriterFreeman AGNESS — The Rogue River finally began to recede here this morning after jumping its banks Tuesday as the Big Dump of snow and rain turned into the Big Melt throughout the Rogue Basin. While most of the Rogue stayed well beneath bank-full this week, the lower Rogue in Curry County grappled with a roguish Rogue that peaked late Tuesday night at
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Oregon storm update: Roof collapses at Bend elementary gym Thursday Jan 12, 2017 at 10:29 AM The Associated Press PORTLAND — The latest on the snowstorm in Oregon and southwest Washington (all times local): 9:45 a.m. The Bend-La Pine School District has closed all its schools for roof assessments after a gymnasium roof collapsed at an elementary school Thursday morning. The school district said on its website that nobody was in the gym when the roof fell at Highla
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Open house on city disaster plan set for Thursday Wednesday Jan 11, 2017 at 3:41 PM Jan 12, 2017 at 10:16 AM Local report The city of Medford will host a community open house on updates to its Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 12, at the Carnegie Library, 413 W. Main St., Medford. The NHMP is a document that outlines management strategies in case of a large natural disaster such as a severe storm, large fire or eart
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The beauty of the bear "Arctic Dream" Thursday Jan 12, 2017 at 9:00 AM Painter Eva Thiemann's fascination with Alaskan Brown Bears was piqued when she moved from Latvia to Alaska in 1997. She observed and photographed these bears while on her many camping trips to Denali and Katmai National Parks. At Denali, she watched bears in their natural habitat on the tundra, and at Katmai she watched them fish for salmon in streams and rivers. Thiemann's uses oil paints to interpr