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Vertical File Subjects Wine Growers plan for a changing climate

Wine growers in Rogue Valley are cautiously optimistic about the future of wine growing in Rogue Valley.  Roseburg winegrower Greg Jones, an…

Vertical File Subjects, Wine and winemaking.
Vertical File Subjects Medford's Colored Caddies

Two articles on colored citizens from May 9, 1929.  One is on black caddies for Southern Oregon Golf tourneys, and one on a street…

Vertical File Subjects, Blacks in Medford
Vertical File Subjects Ace and Betty at the Ready

Black Bird Shopping Center prepares new myna birds for Medford and Phoenix stores.  They hope to break ground for the new store this summer,…

Vertical File Subject, Medford Oregon, Businesses, A--B
Vertical File Subjects Under Siege: We're at our wits end"

Rogue Gallery treatened by downtown transients, sees no solution to the homeless problem.

Vertical File Subjects, Homeless
Vertical File Subjects TV Series "All Across Oregon" set to go nationwide

Vinny DiCostanzo plans to expand scope of local travel show which describes local restauranteurs.  It airs on Southern Oregon PBS.

Vertical File Subjects, television.
Vertical File Subjects Rising From the Ashes: Gas station promo to fuel Butte Creek Mill restoration

In March 2023, gas bought at the Eagles Market and Gas in Eagle Point helped the restoration of the mill.  The National Register of Historic…

Vertical File Subjects, Eagle Point, OR, Historic Houses, Butte Creek Mill
Vertical File Subjects Customers line up for Puck's Donuts reopening

More than two years after the Almeda Fire, owners get a rousing reception in Phoenix.  The shop routinely sold out before noon, so their…

Vertical File Subjects, Phoenix, Or, Businesses
Vertical File Subjects Lawmakers unveil plan aimed at homelessness

Lawmakers have proposed spending more than $200 million to pay for Gov. Tina Kotek's plans to help unhoused people.  

Vertical File Subjects, Homeless
Vertical File Subjects Play-Based Rogue Primary School set to welcome students in Central Point

District 6's newest school is an alternative for families who feel their students would benefit from a more hands-on approach to learning.

Vertical File Subjects, Central Point, OR, Schools, Elementary.
Vertical File Subjects Life on the Lower River Road: Fort Vannoy Grade School

Gordon Russ gave a personal history of his time in the grade school.  When he started school in 1948, the Dimmick School was a two room…

Vertical File Subjects, Grants Pass, OR, history
Vertical File Subjects Hop Through History: Butte Falls Heritage Day

Five historic sites were open for Heritage Day.  They included the Butte Falls Pioneer Cemetery, E.W.Smith Home and Bill Edmonson Memorial…

Vertical File Subjects, Butte Falls, OR
Vertical File Subjects KTVL Alumni reflect on Station's Farewell

When Sinclair Broadcasting annouced it would cease having a local news team on May 15, 2023, past news employees gathered to grieve the loss with…

Vertical File Subjects , Television
Vertical File Subjects Olive Murry

MMT 1-25-1901, Obituary

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Vertical File Subjects Children's Museum of Southern Oregon

MMT 7-15-2022 article, Museum opens, Sunny Spicer, Kathy Deggendorfer, Jordan Miller, 

Medford, OR, Libraries, Carnegie
Vertical File Subjects Siskiyou crest festival celebrates wildest place on earth

At Pacifica, a festival looked at 420 acre educational and recreational activities.  The festival had four keynote speakers, one speaker band…

Vertical File, Subjects, Siskiyou Mountains
Vertical File Subjects A Kid's Place Reborn

The children's Museum opened in the Carnigie Building at 413 West Main St.   The new space has exhibits that teach kids about everything…

Vertical File, Subjects, Childhood
Vertical File Subjects Moving forward, and backward, on homelessness

The homeless population in the Medford/Ashland area increased 132% from 2017 to 2022.  Both cities and Gov Tina Kotek are trying to solve the…

Vertical File, Subjects, Homeless
Vertical File Subjects Granite Street History is up for sale

Five Ashland houses from the earliest days of Ashland, 1890 to 1905, are currently for sale. All the houses are on Granite street, one of the…

Vertical File, Subjects, Ashland, Historic Homes
Vertical File Subjects Groceteria

1985 by Mel Hall, Bill Gates, Bill Lychard, Jane McQuat, J.C. Penney's, SOHS buildingMedfor

Medford, OR, Businesses E-G
Vertical File Subjects Jacksonville Movie Theatre

MMT, 11-20-1929, Article

Jacksonville OR, Historic Houses, etc.
Vertical File Subjects Elks disappear in Jackson County

MMT 11-7-1929 article, Judge Gall, Fred Barneberg, George Frey, Carl Bieberstedt

Animals
Vertical File Subjects Farm Bureau Co-operative exchange

MMT 7-28-1929 article, J. R. McCracken, Justin E. Judy, E, T, Newbry, J. H. French, John A. Anderson, Clay D. Parker

Agriculture
Vertical File Subjects Mrs. J. E. Daniels

MMT 7-14-1929 article, women criminals

Women, Crime
Vertical File Subjects Games of Yesteryear Entice New Players at Hanley Farm

Hanley Farm featured histories earliest toys on their farm-turned-living-history-center in Central Point.  Children played with a wooden cup…

Vertical File Subjects, Hanley Farm
Vertical File Subjects KOBI turns 70--and is Still family-owned

Bill Smulllin createdd KOBI TV pm August 1, 1953 when no other VHF television stations were in the state of Oregon.  He brought televisions…

Vertical File Subjects, Television
Vertical File Subjects Southern Pacific Engineer Killed in Siskiyous

On September 12, 1929, at 11 PM, T R Bateman was hurled from the Engine by an explosion that blew him through the door and up the hill.  No…

Vertical File, Subjects, Railroads, Soutern Oregon Pacific Company
Vertical File Subjects Copco's History Shows Great Progress In Hydro-Electric Development Near Grants Pass

This article in the Grants Pass Courier summarizes the history of electric power in Southern Oregon.  From 1923 to 1927 the new Side Plant in…

Vertical File Subjects, Electric Power 1901-1950
Vertical File Subjects Shocked: City officals stunned by Bear Creek Park playground cost

A vandal torched a portion of the Bear Creek Park resulting in the need for replacement of a section of the park.  Restoration will cost a…

Vertical File Subjects, Medford, Oregon, Parks, Bear Creek
Vertical File Subjects Medford high schools unite for DC parade

Mayor Randy Sparacino nominated them for the 2023 National Memorial Day Parade.  There were 188 students in the parade with 26 chaparones.…

Vertical File Subjects, Medford, Medford High.
Vertical File Subjects Hatchery trout trucked to lakes, ponds and river as busy season kicks in

In May 2023 the Cole Rivers Hatchery sent their tanker trucks to do their annual fish stocking  of Fish Lake, Applegate Lake, Willow Lake,…

Vertical File Subjects, Fisheries