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Larks, Prospect Dinner House earn Wine A-List awards Friday Jan 6, 2017 at 2:00 AM Jan 6, 2017 at 11:09 AM Greg Stiles Mail Tribune @GregMTBusiness No Oregon restaurant wine list reflects the state's vintages quite like Larks Home Kitchen Cuisine, which was named 2017 Wine Program of the Year by the Oregon Wine Press and the Oregon Wine Board in the annual Oregon Wine A-List Awards. Larks, which has locations in Ashland and Medford, topped a list
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Eleanor McCabe Cooney Friday Jan 6, 2017 at 2:00 AM September 7, 1930 - January 3, 2017 Eleanor McCabe Cooney passed away Tuesday, January 3, 2017 after a lengthy battle with lung cancer in her home at the Rogue Valley Manor in Medford, Oregon. The eldest daughter of John and Marion McCabe, she was born September 7, 1930 in Dickinson, North Dakota. Eleanor moved to Medford in 1940. She was a student at the Visitation Convent Grammar School in St. Paul, Minnesota, graduat
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Since You Asked: Missed school days will have to be made up Friday Jan 6, 2017 at 12:01 AM Will the schools make up the lost days?  — Susan W., Medford Susan, it's unfortunate, but you’re going to have to break it to your kids that all this time out of class — building snowmen, drinking hot chocolate and watching movies — will need to be made up at a later date. The minimum instructional time, required by state law, is 900 hours for kinde
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Company to show off electric bus next week Friday Jan 6, 2017 at 5:22 PM Jan 6, 2017 at 5:41 PM The Rogue Valley will get a demonstration of an electric bus next week. From Tuesday through Friday, a 40-foot, 35-passenger ZEPS (Zero Emissions Propulsion System) bus from Complete Coach Works will visit Ashland, Medford and Grants Pass, according to a press release from the company. The bus will tour local cities, offering residents a free ride, tec
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Soaking up winter The bathouse at Summer Lake Hot Springs. Photo by Lee Juillerat Friday Jan 6, 2017 at 12:01 AM By Lee Juillerat for the Mail Tribune SUMMER LAKE — What's better than summer in winter? There's never a bad time to visit Summer Lake Hot Springs, but there's something especially satisfying about savoring a steamy soak when winter temperatures are barely hovering in double digits. Located in northern Lake County, part of Oregon's Outback, Summer Lake
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120-room Hilton Garden Inn opens in south Medford Medford's new Hilton Garden Inn is open in south Medford. Mail Tribune / Denise Baratta Thursday Jan 5, 2017 at 2:31 PM Jan 5, 2017 at 3:56 PM Greg Stiles Mail Tribune @GregMTBusiness Hilton Garden Inn, the first local hotel built since the recession, has opened in south Medford. Prior to the four-story, 120-room hotel turning on the lights, the most recent new hospitality construction was neighbo
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Deadline nears to report 2016 hunts Friday Jan 6, 2017 at 12:01 AM Mark Freeman Mail Tribune @MTwriterFreeman Nearly 21,700 Oregon hunters who failed to report their 2014 hunting successes paid the $25 penalty when buying licenses last year, generating $541,700 in the mandatory-reporting program created by the Oregon Legislature. Another 12,433 hunters who failed to report their 2014 successes did not purchase licenses last year and did not pay the penalty, according to
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10-year-old catches record Idaho brook trout Kazen Cromar, 10, shows off the state record brook trout he caught in Henryís Lake in Island Park, Idaho, in early December. Friday Jan 6, 2017 at 12:01 AM By Tom Holm Idaho Falls Post Register Ten-year-old Kazen Cromar was quick to grab a bobbing ice-fishing rod on Henry’s Lake in Island Park, Idaho, in early December. His swift action paid off when he lifted out a 22-inch brook trout that broke Idaho’s cat
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Emergency services, Jan. 6 Friday Jan 6, 2017 at 12:05 AM Felony arrests Theft — Andrew Monroe Scoggins, 26, no known address. Jackson County sheriff's deputies arrested Scoggins Thursday on an additional felony charge of first-degree theft. Medford police originally arrested Scoggins Dec. 5 on warrants for failing to appear in court on previous charges of first-, second- and third-degree theft and possessing methamphetamine. He remained lodged in the Jackson Coun
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Fire crews deal with icy conditions at Thursday night blaze Friday Jan 6, 2017 at 9:26 AM Jan 6, 2017 at 9:33 AM Ryan Pfeil Mail Tribune @RyanPfeil Firefighters battled both fire and ice Thursday night in northwest Medford when they responded at 8:50 to a blaze at Alsco Inc., 980 Ellen Ave. The building, a commercial laundry facility, sustained "moderate smoke damage," with no visible damage to the structure, according to an agency Facebook post.
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More snow, possibly freezing rain tonight Friday Jan 6, 2017 at 12:20 PM Jan 6, 2017 at 3:00 PM Ryan Pfeil Mail Tribune @RyanPfeil Rogue Valley residents can expect more snow and possibly freezing rain tonight and early Saturday morning before rain is forecast to melt it all away Saturday afternoon. "While snowfall amounts are not expected to be excessive, the combination of new snow and freezing rain on existing snowpack and very cold surfaces,
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Labor of love: Rogue Valley midwife retires after 40 years Kendall and Fily Bencomo of Medford watch as nurse midwife Betty Kay Taylor shows them pictures of their baby girl during an ultrasound at Providence Medford Medical Center. Mail Tribune / Denise Baratta Thursday Nov 3, 2016 at 4:40 PM Nov 3, 2016 at 4:41 PM By Tammy Asnicar for the Mail Tribune Nurse midwife Betty Kay Taylor recalls “catching” her first baby in “a li
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Hobart Bluff, a pleasant, rewarding day hike A hiker takes in the view from Hobart Bluff. Photo by Lee Juillerat Friday Nov 4, 2016 at 2:00 AM Nov 4, 2016 at 11:07 AM By Lee Juillerat for the Mail Tribune Some hikes are rugged forays through wild country to hard-earned mountaintops with dazzling views. Some aren't, and that's fine, too. Reaching Hobart Bluff is simple and straightforward. It's a pleasant day hike through white fir and oak/chaparr
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First poker room in Grants Pass opens Saturday Glenn Richardson holds pocket aces outside of the Grants Pass Social Club on J Street between Sixth and Fifth streets in Grants Pass. TIMOTHY BULLARD / Daily Courier Friday Nov 4, 2016 at 1:22 PM Nov 4, 2016 at 1:22 PM By Madeline Shannon Grants Pass Daily Courier The Grants Pass Social Club, the city's first social-gaming card room, has set its grand opening for Saturday. "Predominately, we're going
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Mayor's race, three measures on the ballot in Jacksonville Wednesday Sep 7, 2016 at 12:01 AM Tony Boom for the Mail Tribune JACKSONVILLE — Voters will be asked in November to choose a mayor and say yea or nay to measures banning marijuana processing and sales and adopting a new city charter. Three candidates have filed for three at-large, four-year council terms. Incumbent Mayor Paul Becker is being challenged in the Nov. 8 election for the four-year term by City
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County denies track expansion Friday Nov 4, 2016 at 5:43 PM Nov 4, 2016 at 5:43 PM By PHUONG LE Associated Press SEATTLE — An Oregon county has tentatively denied Union Pacific Railroad's plan to expand tracks along the Columbia River Gorge where an oil train derailed in June. Wasco County commissioners voted Wednesday to reverse a decision by the county's planning commission and tentatively deny the railroad's application to add four mile
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Emergency services, Sept. 8 Thursday Sep 8, 2016 at 12:05 AM Felony arrests Drugs — Dustin Joseph Mack, 27, of the 100 block of Fern Valley Road, Medford. Medford police arrested Mack Tuesday on a felony warrant charging heroin possession, and on warrants charging failure to appear in court on charges of heroin possession, third-degree robbery, harassment and third-degree theft. He was booked in the Jackson County Jail Tuesday and released because of overcrowding.
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Mail Tribune 100: Sept. 8, 1916 Thursday Sep 8, 2016 at 12:01 AM Sept. 8, 1916 LOCAL AND PERSONAL There will be a special meeting of the Parent Teacher's Circle Monday afternoon at 11 o'clock. This meeting will be held to arrange for the work of the coming year. All parents are urged to be present, especially those who have recently come into the district. Fine weather, elegant roads, good music, splendid company, so why not attend the Gold Hill pavilion dance on Saturda
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Since You Asked: If you're in danger, police don't care where you park Friday Nov 4, 2016 at 12:01 AM Where do I park if I have business at the new police station? Where does a battered spouse go if they want to be protected from the abuser who has chased them to the police station? — C.M., via email Anyone with routine business at the police station — for example, paying a citation, reporting an incident, dropping off cupcakes, etc. —
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Brief power outage affects more than 1,600 Medford customers Friday Nov 4, 2016 at 8:36 AM Nov 4, 2016 at 11:39 AM A power outage left more than 1,600 Medford customers in the dark this morning. A power line problem at the intersection of Portland Avenue and East Main Street was reported at 7:31 a.m. today. Pacific Power reported on its website that 1,618 customers were affected. Pacific Power spokesman Tom Gauntt said power was restored at 8:12