Month: August 2022

Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church The church, at the Shoppes at Exit 24, 205 Fern Valley Road, Suite Z, Phoenix, will hold a grand vespers service at 6 pm on Saturday, August 20. A service of the Divine Liturgy will be at 9 am on Sunday, August 21. 541-690-8822 or see gabriel.church. Lutheran Church of the Ascension The church, at 675 Black Oak Drive, Medford, will hold an in-person, live worship service at 9:30 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 21. For more information or a link to the live stream, call 541-773-3594 or visit ascensionlutheran.com. Ashland Zen Center The temple, at 740 Tolman…

Public defense agency Your August 16-17 issues describe the Chief Justice of Oregon’s efforts to generate legislative action to provide criminal defendants with prompt and efficient representation. The current private attorney contract system has failed. In 1964, I was a trial attorney in the District Attorney’s office in Santa Clara County, California. That county solved the problem by creating a public defender agency parallel to the district attorney’s agency. The public defender hired staff, including attorneys, investigators, paralegals, secretaries, etc. The efficiencies were spectacular. For example, one attorney would manage a prosecution schedule rather than 10 or more private attorneys….

News from 100 years ago The following news items were taken from the Mail Tribune archives 100 years ago August 19, 1922 APPROVED EXHIBITION AT THE GREAT MEETING Mayor Gates Urges Jackson County People to Support Project – Big State Benefits Claimed – Visitors Praise Local Landscape and Medford Mayor The concert of the band of the Elks band and the program of the members of the Oregon Exposition Caravan, which arrived yesterday afternoon from Crater Lake, were well attended last night. Several hundred cars were parked on the streets bordering the park. Speeches, carried to very distant points by…

BUFFALO, NY — Republican congressional candidate for New York’s 23rd district, Carl Paladino, on a Breitbart radio show posted online Saturday, once again created controversy by talking about current US Attorney General Merrick Garland . “… people like Garland who should not only be impeached, but probably executed. The guy is lost. He’s a lost soul,” Paladino said. He criticized Garland over the FBI’s search earlier this month of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, but walked back the rhetoric when asked by host Matthew Boyle for an explanation . “I’m just kidding,” he said. “The man should…

For the past three weeks, a group of women in politics from Japan has been touring the United States, visiting various cities and learning about how politics works in the United States. They’ve visited cities like Portland and Washington, DC, and their last tour stop was Austin. As part of their visit, the women took a trip to Liberty Hill to learn more about small town politics. During a luncheon Thursday, the women, along with three performers, met with Mayor Liz Branigan, County Commissioner Cynthia Long and female members of the Liberty Hill City Council and staff. The group was…

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Va. – UPDATE 23:20: The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office said they are still looking for the man who tried to break into a home in the Brush Mountain area on Thursday. Authorities said they believe the man spotted is Shawn Tolbert, 42, who they have been searching for after a Botetourt County police chase that led to a crash in Craig County. A heavy police presence will continue in the Brush Mountain area as the investigation continues overnight, according to authorities. The sheriff’s office reminded area residents to remain vigilant throughout the night and to call 911 if…