Tag: Medford Oregon
Improving Connectivity at MFR
I was pleased to learn recently that my local airport, Rogue Valley International-Medford Airport (MFR), is pursuing a grant to help it secure a direct flight to a major Midwest hub, improving connectivity to destinations in the Midwest and East Coast from here in Southern Oregon and Northern California. Even with the pandemic dropping passenger numbers last year by 53 percent, about 500,000 flew out of the airport in 2020, and officials expect that number to bounce back up to over a million once travel resumes to normal volumes. Prior to the slow-down, flight capacity averaged around 85 percent.
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Too Close to Home
I had intended to write my blog this week about our recent trip to the Oregon coast, but events over the past week have pushed that topic to the back burner. On Tuesday an intense wildfire broke out about 15 miles south of my home in the Rogue Valley of Southern Oregon. Beginning at the northern end of the town of Ashland, home to Southern Oregon University and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (about which I've written several times), it tore through the small towns of Talent and Phoenix and to the edge of Medford, a city of more than 80,000. We'd had more than a week of 100-plus-degree days, humidity in the low teens and no measurable rain since late June, and that day winds of 20 mph and gusts up to 40 mph pushed the flames up the valley to the northwest.