Jackson County News

Editor's note: Light One Candle is an annual series sponsored by the Mail Tribune that focuses on an individual, group or agency that could use a helping hand during the holiday season.

The Jackson County Sheriff's Department is asking for help tracking down thieves who towed away a $13,981 trailer being used as an office at a Central Point construction site.

Jackson County health inspectors evaluated 108 restaurants in November. All passed their semiannual inspections, and 43 received perfect scores of 100.

The driver of this silver 2001 BMW X5 sport utility vehicle lost control Sunday near Albany, striking a guardrail near milepost 239 and hitting a 2010 Acura MDX sport utility vehicle with a family of four onboard.

Medford and Jackson County firefighters spent between midnight Friday and daylight Saturday covering each others' backs, as three fires broke out within hours of each other that resulted in total losses of three buildings.

It took less than five years for the five Food Projects of Jackson County to collect more than 1 million pounds of food for hungry people in Southern Oregon.

Southern Oregon vintners expect some damage from the recent cold snap, but they'll have to wait a bit to learn the extent.

Ashland resident Karen Jeffery has created a calendar featuring photos of Ashland to help raise money for local nonprofit organizations.

Editor's note: Light One Candle is an annual series sponsored by the Mail Tribune that focuses on an individual, group or agency that could use a helping hand during the holiday season.

The 1851 Jacksonville gold rush spurred a population boom that defined the future of Southern Oregon, historian Jeff LaLande will explain in a talk Friday in Ashland Enterprises such as the Sterling Mine outside of Jacksonville operated into the 20th century.

The California Department of Fish and Game reports that OR-7's GPS-transmitting collar showed he crossed the border into northern Siskiyou County briefly Saturday, then returned to Oregon.

Southern Oregon vintners expect some damage from the recent cold snap, but they'll have to wait a bit to learn the extent.

"It was an outstanding program where recipients were honored in a very special way.

A man a ccused of trying to bomb the Jackson County prosecutor's office to avoid being sentenced on a burglary charge the next day has a trial date on that charge.

The community band, directed by Martin Behnke, will present its annual Holiday Prism Concert, a celebration of music, movement and light featuring sacred and secular holiday music.

Jerry Newton McDonald, 47, of the 100 block of West Jackson Street, Medford. Medford police arrested McDonald Saturday on charges of second-degree burglary, failure to register as a sex offender and suspicion of being a fugitive from Montana.

While walking past my collection of harvested winter squash the other day, I noticed that one of them had a large spot near the stem that looked different.

Editor's note: Light One Candle is an annual series sponsored by the Mail Tribune that focuses on an individual, group or agency that could use a helping hand during the holiday season.

Do you know of any organizations or agencies in the Rogue Valley that will accept donations of live trees and plant them somewhere, like in a park? I would like to consider buying a live tree for the holidays this year, but I don't own the property I live on, so I have nowhere to plant it afterward.

Jackson County health inspectors evaluated 108 restaurants in November. All passed their semiannual inspections, and 43 received perfect scores of 100.