The Ashland City Council voted 5-1 Monday to make no changes to media access for executive sessions, turning away the city attorney’s suggestion they consider formulating a policy on who can and can’t exercise the media’s right to attend closed sessions.
Creating a list of approved media outlets and setting up a policy for how to get on that list, as some other Oregon cities have done, is up for discussion at Monday night’s study session of the Ashland City Council.
The Ashland Chamber of Commerce worked with experts in finance and banking, aiming to create short videos that offered even more value to business owners when it came to applying for grants and having the necessary financial statements in order to do so.
For each of us, the winnowing of the old persona is a potentially precious gift. Perhaps we can do better than merely returning to who we were in 2019.
Ashland state Rep. Pam Marsh and Sen. Jeff Golden talk about their priorities for the upcoming state legislative “short session.”
A changing climate means wine grape growers will likely have to adapt what varietals they grow to higher temperatures.
Why won’t the U.S. and NATO pledge to Putin not to bring Ukraine and Georgia into the military alliance? If Putin is just blowing smoke, such a pledge will expose his bad intentions and unite the world in resistance.
Thousands of railroad ties are stacked in an Ashland neighborhood due to “constraints in the supply chain,” according to the railroad. After neighbors complained about the creosote odor and an inquiry from a state legislator, the railroad has promised to move the ties.
Beginning in October 2001 at Ashland’s Varsity Theatre, the Ashland Independent Film Festival has steadily grown to become one of the standout independent, non-studio film exhibits throughout the country.
As teachers, staff and students prepare to return to in-person classes on Monday, an Ashland School District official reflected on graduation rates for 2020-21 at Ashland High School released last week, which show a slight decline from the prior school year.
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Ask Strider: A worried older brother asks our advice columnist’s advice. And a dog’s guardian wants to know if there is any hope getting their hat-hating dog to calm down. As always, Strider tries to give words that help!
After a successful production of “The Vagina Monologues” and raising more than $2,000 for Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon, Ashland actor and director Lia Dugal intends for “The Climate Monologues” to premiere in Oregon in late 2025 or early 2026 at the Bellview Grange in Ashland.
It’s complicated.
Herbert Rothschild: Whether visualization and intention by themselves can effect broad social change is impossible to determine, but the question merits sustained consideration.
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