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Vertical File Subjects After 25 years Rogue Suspects still playing venues large and small

Currently the band has eight members, and  basically play for outdoor venues during the summer.  Guitarist Dirk Price and Greg Frederick…

Vertical File Subjects, Music, City Bands
Vertical File Subjects The Tunes will go on at Rockafairy after property owner cuts deal to help nonprofit music library

Sshane Ross  had been struggling to pay rent on the 3,800 sq.foot space on sixth street that was formerly the American Cancer Society thrift…

Vertical File Subjects, Music
Vertical File Subjects Homeless Protest rotates Throughout Ashland Area

A group of homeless individuals protesting Ashland's camping restrictions set up tents in high profile places around Ashland.  From the…

Vertical File Subjects, Homeless
Vertical File Subjects Correspondence Resolutions and Memorials

Oregon Legislature printed 1857 ; Correspondence concerning prices of supplies, the Hostilities of the Indians, and protection of the Immigrants…

Vertical File, Rogue River Indian Wars 1853-1856
Vertical File Subjects Marian Anderson Visits Medford's Holly Theater

March 3, 1940 Marian Anderson sang opera to spirituals in a concert which was delayed by local area flooding.  

Vertical File, Subject Index, Theater
Vertical File Subjects Fire District 5 is busy Building

Construction work is in progress for three Jackson county Fire districts 5 stations.  This is the first big upgrade since 2003 and the…

Vertical File Subjects, Phoenix, OR, Fires and Fire Prevention
Vertical File Subjects Like it or not, Oregon had a great economic decade

There was steady employment gains, minimum wage increases, and an expansion of Medicad which brought more  benefits to working families…

Vertical File, Subjects, Jackson county Oregon, economic conditions
Vertical File Subjects Trial in death of former child actor set for 2024

Daniel James Burda will have a jury trial in January 20 to 24 regarding his role in the death of Dennis Day who was a Mouseketeer on television.…

Vertical File Subjects, Jackson County, courts
Vertical File Subjects Major Expo project moves forward

Jackson County Commissioners approved a contract to build a facility to serve as a multi-use emergency response center such as fires. …

Vertical File Subjects, Emergency Medical Services
Vertical File Subjects Hanley Farm preserves history, feeds Southern Oregon Families

The 37 acres of Hanley Farm are more than history of local agriculture.  They also provide food for area families that are dealing with…

Vertical File Subjects, Hanley Farm
Vertical File Subjects Games of Yesteryear entice new players at Hanley Farm

The Southern Oregon Historical Society hosted a Games Children Played event at Hanley Farm.  Youngsters played with wooden cup and ball toyed…

Vertical File Subjects, Hanley Farm.
Vertical File Subjects Games of Yesteryear entice new players at Hanley Farm

The Southern Oregon Historical Society hosted a Games Children Played event at Hanley Farm.  Youngsters played with wooden cup and ball toyed…

Vertical File Subjects, Hanley Farm.
Vertical File Subjects Man gets 13.5 years for Southern Oregon pot robberies

Shannon Christopher Harrop directed four armed marijuana robberies in 2019 and 2020.  Harrop typically was not at the scene of those…

Vertical File Subjects, Marijuana
Vertical File Subjects Medford Council: Remove all new tent campsites

The council passed a law that allows police to remove new homeless camps without 72 hour notice.  The ordinace is controversial because it…

Vertical File, Subjects, Homeless
Vertical File Subjects Etna Dungan

Valley Record 10-31-1901, Indicted for fraud

Women, crime
Vertical File Subjects Booker T. Washington comes to Ashland

Newspaper clipping from Ashland Tidings 20 Mar 1913 p. 1 article with photograph of Booker T. Washington visiting the Methodist Church. 

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects History Explains Dearth of Blacks

Oregon's Constitution banned black migration article from Mail Tribune 4 June 1995 p. 4A interview with Willard Cave, son of once-Medford Police…

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects Historical Perspective has present lessons

Undated (but at least a decade after 1968) Ashland Tidings newspaper clipping mentions Martin Luther King Jr. day and the advancement of…

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects Talent Items

Medford Mail Newspaper clipping 14 Sep 1894  no headline mentions a black preacher that came to town with a letter of introduction…

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects Black Author target of racist vandalism

Medford Mail Tribune clipping 26 Mar 1982 - Black author, Myrtle Span had her duck killed and blood used to write racist comments on sliding glass…

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects A White Man's Country

undated newspaper clipping ...of 25,756 enumerated by the census, all but 173 were white...56 negroes, 5 Indians, 84 Chinese and 28 Japanese

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects Statistics of Jackson County

reported in Democratic Times 14 Jan 1871 

White Males.................2,382

White Females.........    1,677

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects Arrested and Discharged

Joe Mimms, a colored man arrested in Ashland w/ partern, B. L. Tompkins (white) holding religious meetings at Henley, Hornbrook and Pokegama.…

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects Colored hobo, T. J. Moore

Ashland Tidings 27 Aug 1894 .... Moore was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects Booker T. Washington Noted Colored Educator

Ashland Tidings clipping 24 mar 1913 p. 1 - Washington spoke at the M.E. Church to a packed house

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects Black in Oregon

Ashland Daily Tidings article 17 May 2004 ... Race relations in Oregon since statehood and discussion of KKK

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects A Boy, A Bicycle, and a Turtle

Ahland LithiaGraph newspaper story about Emerson Vail's (a black boy) dream to become an Olympian

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects Self-Defense Is Plea of Negro Held as Slayer

Medford Mail Tribune clipping 9 Jun 1926 p. 2 William Carter, local colored bootblack shot Antone Farris, a local Mexican in the leg

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects The Editor's Last Word

Ashland Tidings 5 Oct 1929... U of O have a problem on their hands. A very bright colored girl applied for admission to the University…

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects Simon Pure Democracy

Marysville Daily Appeal , Marysville, CA 8 Jul 1862 p 2 clipping  Harry Bailey [actually Henry Bailey] married Julianna Johnson .... her hair…

Blacks in Southern Oregon