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Roman Battaglia/JPR NewsMedford voters are being asked to approve a hotel tax increase this November. It started as an effort to bring a minor league baseball team to Medford. But the idea has now turned into a major conference center with a possible baseball stadium on the side. -
Image of Nicole by Jenny Jensen; Ray Pettengell courtesy photoRay Pettengell and Nicole Larsen join the Exchange.
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A swimmer of any skill level might need your help, and preventing a drowning takes closer supervision of the kids than you might think. The distress signs can be subtle and quick. -
The Illinois River National Recreation Trail in the Kalmiopsis Wilderness was devastated by the 500,000-acre Biscuit Fire in 2002. Now it's back. -
Bonnie Tsui, swimmer/surfer/writer, covers the broad range of ways in which people get into--really into-water, in her book Why We Swim. -
Applegate Valley residents Suzie Savoie and Luke Ruediger hiked the whole spine of the range three years ago, resulting in the film - Sagebrush to Sea: A Journey Across the Siskiyou Crest. -
Authorities are warning people about chilly river temperatures as the heat begins to build this weekend. -
A father-son connection re-forged on a long bike ride; Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's and 300 Conversations along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America. -
California day camps operate without background checks, CPR training, child/adult ratios or required reporting of injury and death. A family whose daughter drowned at a camp is working to change that. -
Grueling trail runs in Siskiyous boost people of Ukraine. -
60 stories from Pacific Crest Trail in the new book "Crossing Paths: A Pacific Crest Trailside Reader." It's something of an anniversary edition, coming ten years after the original trailside reader, and it includes prose and poetry from many writers. -
Balls and strikes and estrangement and connection, in Wade Rouse's 'Magic Season' -
Erin Wilson recounts how her dog saved her from a mountain lion attack while she hiked along a river in remote Northern California. Eva the Belgian Malinois is recovering. -
Kami Rita Sherpa has set and broke his own world record for the most successful Mount Everest ascents multiple times in recent years. He's now summited Everest for the 26th time.
