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Sixth wettest year on record in Medford won't let up A pasture is flooded on Table Rock Road after months of rain that have made this water year the sixth wettest on record. [Mail Tribune / Denise Baratta] Monday Mar 6, 2017 at 9:45 AM Mar 6, 2017 at 4:00 PM Ryan Pfeil Mail Tribune @RyanPfeil Following the latest round of winter weather to drape parts of southwestern Oregon with snow, Medford is in the midst of its sixth wettest year on record. A
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Emergency Services, March 7 Monday Mar 6, 2017 at 4:46 PM Mar 6, 2017 at 7:56 PM Felony arrests Identity theft — Jeffrey Adam Todd, 28, of the 500 block of Van Wey Circle, Eagle Point. Central Point police Monday arrested Todd on 58 counts of identity theft and one count of racketeering as well as warrants for failing to appear on drug, theft and weapons charges. He was lodged Monday in the Jackson County Jail on with out a bail liste
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Caveman Bridge will get a makeover Tuesday Mar 7, 2017 at 12:01 AM By Jeff Duewel Grants Pass Daily Courier Caveman Bridge, arguably the most recognizable landmark in Grants Pass, will get a $5.3 million overhaul beginning in September. People can learn about the renovation project at an open house from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 15, at The Lodge at Riverside, a stone's throw from the bridge at 955 S.E. Seventh St. "The open house will showcase a walk-through of the pl
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Huntington's pot shops seeing influx of Idaho customers Monday Mar 6, 2017 at 5:23 PM Mar 6, 2017 at 5:24 PM The Associated Press BOISE, Idaho — Idaho residents are helping to boost the economy of a small Oregon town by purchasing marijuana from the town's two dispensaries, which lie along the border between the two states. Huntington has 435 residents, but the city's pot shops can serve up to 600 customers on a busy day, with most coming
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'Holding on by a thread' Jackson County Mental Health therapists worry vulnerable people will slip through the cracks as CCOs transition away from county services. [Mail Tribune / Denise Baratta] Thursday Mar 2, 2017 at 6:27 PM Mar 2, 2017 at 6:30 PM Vickie Aldous Mail Tribune @VickieAldous Jackson County Mental Health therapists are warning that disruptions to the local mental health system could lead to spikes in homelessness, unemployment, dom
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Fishing Report: Friday, March 3 Friday Mar 3, 2017 at 12:01 AM OCEAN OUTLOOK COASTWIDE: A small-craft advisory is in effect through this evening, and sketchy weather conditions will follow for a couple days. Saturday calls for rain, 10-knot winds and eight-foot swells, with 15-knot winds and 11-foot swells forecast for Sunday. Rockfish anglers have new bag limits for 2017. Canary rockfish are part of the seven-fish marine bag limit, and there is no sub-limit on
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Oregon lawmakers push to protect pot users' info from US In this Oct. 1, 2015, file photo, Oregrown employees Bianca Pintar, left, and Dusty Newman, right, help customers during the first day of recreational marijuana sales in Bend. [Jarod Opperman/The Bulletin via AP, File] Thursday Mar 2, 2017 at 5:47 PM By Kristena Hansen The Associated Press SALEM — Oregon lawmakers worried about a nationwide crackdown on legal marijuana under President Donald Trump's administ
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Outdoor Journal: First Rogue springer opens door to improved 2017 runs Friday Mar 3, 2017 at 12:01 AM Mark Freeman Mail Tribune @MTwriterFreeman GOLD BEACH — A Huntley Bar plunker saw his rod double over last Friday, and the fight that ignites springtime along the Rogue River began. The way the reel sang he knew it had to be the prize of the Rogue — a spring chinook salmon, bright and powerful, with sea lice on the chrome scales outside, and insid
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Flyfishers hope to ban Upper Rogue jetboats Taylor Grimes, with Rogue Jet Boat Adventures, leads a crew up the Rogue River at TouVelle State Park. [Mail Tribune / file photo] Tuesday Feb 21, 2017 at 4:01 PM Feb 22, 2017 at 6:56 AM Mark Freeman Mail Tribune @MTwriterFreeman A local fishing club and a river-side landowner have turned to the Oregon State Marine Board in an attempt to jettison an excursion tour-boat operator from a 24-mile stretch of
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CCOs have $925 million in reserves; bill would make them nonprofit Thursday Mar 2, 2017 at 6:30 PM Vickie Aldous Mail Tribune @VickieAldous A bill proposed in the Oregon Legislature would force the coordinated care organizations that manage Oregon Health Plan patients to become nonprofits by 2023. Seven of the 16 CCOs in the state are for-profit organizations. Critics of the for-profit CCOs say they should not be allowed to profit off health care for low-income Oregonian
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Cheers to local beer at Osmo's Alehouse Osmo's Alehouse has something on tap to appeal to all sorts of beer drinkers, whether they like their brews light, dark or somewhere in between. [Photo by Anita Burke] Friday Mar 3, 2017 at 12:01 AM Anita Burke Mail Tribune @aburke_reporter I always look forward to starting the summer festival season with Medford Beer Week in June, but this winter has given fans of local beer plenty to celebrate, with new breweries bubbling up over
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Death toll rises to 6 in Riddle house fire Alyssa Bell, 9, of Riddle participates in a candlelight vigil Wednesday night for the victims of a house fire at a Riddle home earlier in the day. [Michael Sullivan/The News-Review via AP] Alyssa Bell, 9, of Riddle participates in a candlelight vigil Wednesday night for the victims of a house fire at a Riddle home earlier in the day. [Michael Sullivan/The News-Review via AP] Thursday Mar 2, 2017 at 5:08 PM Mar 2, 2017&
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Fraud scheme ringleader sentenced to 4 years in prison Craig Sterling Knight Thursday Mar 2, 2017 at 2:34 PM Mar 2, 2017 at 5:36 PM Nick Morgan Mail Tribune @mtcrimebeat One of three ringleaders accused in a check fraud scheme that targeted local businesses and agencies was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday after admitting to his role in the scheme. Craig Sterling Knight, 35, was sentenced in Jackson County Circuit Court after pleading g
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Don't let detox diets deceive you Pixabay Wednesday Jan 4, 2017 at 9:45 AM Ellie Krieger - The Washington Post I still chuckle when I think about the tweet put out years ago by the famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson: "The likelihood that a person uses the word 'toxin' correlates strongly with how much Chemistry the person does *not* know" (punctuation his). No doubt we will be pummeled by that word and its cousin "detox" over the next few weeks as the diet industry
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Fair shrimp wrangling Molly Morrison searches Tuesday for fairy shrimp in a vernal pool at the top of Upper Table Rock. [Mail Tribune / Jamie Lusch] Friday Feb 17, 2017 at 12:01 AM Mark Freeman Mail Tribune @MTwriterFreeman Molly Morrison pulls off her hiking boots Tuesday and reaches into her Trader Joe's bag for a pair of flowery rubber boots that any botanist worth her weight in Draba verna would have for a foray into a giant puddle atop Upper Table Rock. Morrison gra
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Marriage is about love, not compatibility Thursday Oct 28, 2004 at 2:00 AM Dec 18, 2010 at 9:20 AM Home Front Tragedy inspires a husband to write a book on how people can regain closeness You don't realize how out of shape you are until you are forced to climb a long flight of stairs, and the same can be said about marriage. You never know how out of shape your relationship is until a crisis hits. Mort and Ari Fertel, who recently moved to Maryla
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Central Point kick starts bike safety plan for kids Saturday Mar 15, 2008 at 12:01 AM Brock Rowley cringes every time he looks out his office window at students on bikes or scooters. By BUFFY POLLOCK Brock Rowley cringes every time he looks out his office window at students on bikes or scooters. Usually, the Central Point Elementary School principal notes, they're without helmets, riding double or headed down the wrong side of the road without an apparent care in the wor
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St. Mary's class offers Mandarin language Sunday Aug 31, 2008 at 12:01 AM St. Mary's School in September will begin offering a beginning Mandarin language class on Thursday nights at no cost. By Paris Achen St. Mary's School in September will begin offering a beginning Mandarin language class on Thursday nights at no cost. The 30-week course, open to the community, was made possible through a $50,000 Confucius Classroom grant from the Chinese government-affiliated Hanban
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Fire damages house near Sams Valley Firefighters from Jackson County Fire District 3 work Thursday to extinguish a blaze in the 5000 block of Beagle Road northeast of Sams Valley. [Submitted photo] Friday Feb 17, 2017 at 11:15 AM Feb 17, 2017 at 2:43 PM Ryan Pfeil Mail Tribune @RyanPfeil A fire caused severe damage Thursday to the rear portion of a house in the 5000 block of Beagle Road northeast of Sams Valley. It's the second time fire crews re
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Rochelle "Rockie" Kay Trinca Wednesday Feb 15, 2017 at 2:00 AM September 8, 1938 - February 13, 2017 Rochelle “Rockie” Kay Trinca, 78, passed away peacefully February 13, 2017 at home in Medford, Oregon. Rockie was born September 8, 1938 in Torrance, California to Wilson and Rosalie Grazier. She graduated from Yreka High School and married Remo Trinca May 31, 1959 in Reno, Nevada. She and her husband, Remo Trinca owned and operated the Stateline Service in Hi