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What Two Wildfires Reveal About the Cracks in Our Emergency Response
The wind was the first thing Erica Ledesma noticed on Sept. 8, 2020, when she woke up around 5 a.m. It’d been blazing hot and bone dry in Medford, Oregon—typical late-summer weather. But the howling wind was unlike anything Ledesma, who’s now 31 and was born and raised in the area, had experienced. “I was like, what is that noise? Everything was moving, the trees and everything. It all just felt off,” she recalls. “Everything felt really eerie and really dry.”
State May Not Deny Grants to Charity Based on Its Religious Discrimination in Employment, When
From Thursday's decision in Youth 71Five Ministries v. Williams, decided by Judge Kenneth Lee, joined by Judges Bridget Bade and Danielle Forrest:. Youth 71Five Ministries (71Five) is a Christian organization that serves and mentors at-risk youths of all backgrounds, including those who are not Christian. But 71Five hires only those who share its faith and can thus advance the group's mission and message. Once the state of Oregon learned of this hiring practice, it canceled $410,000 in grants to 71Five, asserting that the group violated the state's non-discrimination policy. The district court denied 71Five's motion for a preliminary injunction, and 71Five has now filed an emergency motion seeking an injunction pending appeal of the district court's order.
Man sentenced to 20 years for Medford motel heart-attack homicide
A Central Point man will serve two decades behind bars after pleading no contest to a manslaughter charge among other crimes in connection with a robbery at the Sis-Q Motel in Medford that culminated in the manager dying of cardiac arrest. Brian Matthew Smith, 31, was sentenced Monday in Jackson...
Kids Unlimited Academy Pioneers Later Start Times with Year-Round Schooling
MEDFORD, Ore. – At Kids Unlimited Academy (KUA), students begin their school year earlier than others, but are starting their day later at 9 a.m. The kindergarten through fifth grade public charter school was the first in Oregon to expand its academic calendar to 11 months. Now they are opening their doors at 7:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. to allow students to arrive for breakfast and participate in morning enrichment, which includes academics, movement, and mindfulness. The schedule caters to working families, who can utilize KUA’s extended day as an alternative to childcare.
SOU’s 50th anniversary celebration of its pipe organ
(Ashland, Ore.) — There will be cake. There will be festivities marking a half-century milestone. And most certainly, there will be music. Southern Oregon University will observe the 50th anniversary of the SOU Music Recital Hall’s Worth Harvey Pipe Organ – and the history behind it – with a celebration and concert at 2 p.m. on Friday, August 23. The massive and much-celebrated pipe organ itself will be at center stage.
Southern Oregon floating offshore wind clears one bureaucratic hurdle in a long process
Oregon’s coast is inching closer to generating renewable electricity using floating offshore wind turbines, though any construction is still years away. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, or BOEM, announced it has finalized an environmental assessment. The assessment looked at potential impacts from issuing leases to develop floating offshore wind in the region. BOEM is the federal agency tasked with identifying, proposing and leasing the ocean areas.
Oregon voters could see Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the ballot with We The People
Oregon voters could see independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the ballot in November after a petition received enough signatures to create a new minor political party in Oregon, according to the Oregon Secretary of State’s office.
Oregon Coast Visitors Association launches biking homepage
The Oregon Coast Visitors Association website is now a central hub for all things biking on the coast! For the past few years, we’ve been actively involved in supporting the creation of three coastal mountain bike trail systems (Klootchy Creek in Seaside, Big Creek in Newport, and Whiskey Run in Coos County), and have sponsored mountain biking events like Ride the Dirt Wave and Mountain Bike Oregon, as a way to elevate mountain biking as a coastal experience for visitors and locals. ...
Gov. Kotek’s panel makes hundreds of recommendations to reform Coffee Creek prison
Oregon Department of Corrections officials have received hundreds of ideas from a governor-appointed panel for reforming the state’s only women’s prison and better protecting women against trauma, sexual abuse and misconduct. The recommendations would make administrators more accountable for Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, which houses about 900 female inmates, and seek a change in culture […]
Legendary Aufderheide Drive could be Oregon’s next ‘Scenic Bikeway’
If all goes according to plan, Oregon could add another State Scenic Bikeway to its collection later this year. Advocates and staff from Oregon Parks & Recreation Department hosted a public meeting July 29th to discuss the Aufderheide Scenic Bikeway, a route that would stretch 60 miles between Highway 58 in Oakridge to Highway 126 in McKenzie River.
1.7 million acres burned in Pacific NW, international firefighters join the battle
PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Several large fires continue to burn across the Pacific Northwest. According to the Northwest Interagency Coordination Center in Portland, over 1.7 million acres have burned in Oregon and Washington. KATU WILDFIRE COVERAGE |. As of Tuesday morning, 99 large fires have occurred this year. “Just...
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