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• Wide line is a double line and prohibits lane changes
  

  Can you explain to the driving public why some lanes have a wide white line painted on the pavement? It's been explained to me that it means "do not...

• Cold weather rekindles craving for family recipes
  

  The two things I like best and least about November center around food. Why am I not surprised?

• Becoming privy to reporter's one-holer phobia
  

  The recent discovery of an old outhouse on the historic Hanley Farm in Central Point brought back memories of a childhood fear probably best left...

• Bicyclist should have let cars pass
  

  This is a continuation of my column on Oct. 26, which addressed the obligations of a driver when trying to pass a cyclist on a two-lane road.

• There's no tool like an old tool
  

  The unique noise filling our woodlands south of Jacksonville last Sunday morning sounded like a beaver grating his buck teeth against the grain of a...

• Years later, Mom's 'doodles' still bring smile to my face
  

  Never underestimate the power of a doodle. You never know where it may lead.

• Reading first MT over my grandparents' shoulders
  

  When the Medford Mail Tribune was born a century ago today, my grandparents were toiling away on their homestead in the Applegate Valley.

• Cautious driver could have passed on left
  

  Would you consider responding to this situation which happened on Saturday, Oct.

• Blast from the past a vibrant memory
  

  Each autumn when broad leaf maple leaves turn so bright yellow they almost hurt your eyes, Lorna Barham Meyer Cook's thoughts go back to her...

• Mere mortals fall, but communities pick them up
  

  Anja Hein, the injured teen featured along with her mother in two front page Mail Tribune stories this week, has weathered some hard knocks in her...

• Despite some bad nuts, PB&J giveaway keeps jammin'
  

  Last Sunday's stories about one couple's afternoon deliveries of PB&J sandwiches and hope in Hawthorne Park caused an outpouring of support within...

• There's no parking in bicycle lanes — anywhere
  

  Medford has a number of streets that feature bike lanes. I've noticed that Siskiyou Boulevard has bike lanes in the Hoover School area.

• Couple who've been there offer homeless food of hope
  

  Plopping a giant tub of Skippy and an oversized jar of Smuckers onto a rickety card table in Hawthorne Park marks the highlight of Robin and Derek...

• Photo-citation pictures usually tell the story
  

  Short questions from the mail bag:

• 'Women of the world wake up. You are too important to be lost'
  

  Peg Crowley, executive director of the Community Health Center, got me all verklempt recently — smack in the middle of the newsroom.

• Kitten tracks across pet cemetery connects old friends
  

  The kitten tracks are frozen in time in the broken chunks of old concrete.

• Go ahead, make a right turn on that red arrow
  

  I am confused by the traffic light at North Phoenix and Fern Valley roads.

• Eagle Scout earns wings in family tradition
  

  Ashland High School junior Josh Harris, 15, the youngest person in his class, received his Eagle Scout certificate from the Boy Scouts of America...

• Can you keep a secret? Ties to SoCal run deep
  

  Say it loud. Say it proud. I am a card-carrying member of the dreaded California transplant infestation. Oh joy.

• Driver on right leads at sign-less intersection
  

  Here are a few items from the mailbag:

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