Talent Garden Club and city of Talent officials are asking for the return of a small but important feature of the city’s new tiny park. The beekeeper Lego was a gift from Allie French, executive director of Talent Maker City, to the city of Talent, and was placed in the tiny park at its unveiling last week. The gift has gone missing from the park enclosure.
Mayor Julie Akins: “An audit might tell us more, especially one that goes back five years. The more we know, the better off we are in righting our financial ship. It’s a reasonable idea. I don’t see why anyone would be offended.”
Peter Gibb: “Here’s my simple, free idea. Let’s learn and practice talking to each other differently. Learn to listen, rather than jumping to debate and argument. Set conversational intentions on understanding rather than winning.”
Two local journalists will discuss the challenges and dilemmas journalists confront as they cover contentious local issues in a virtual forum hosted by The Jefferson Center on Sunday afternoon, July 10, featuring Bert Etling, executive editor of the news website Ashland.news, and Erik Neumann, interim news director at Jefferson Public Radio.
Herbert Rothshchild: “We’ve all benefited from an expansion of the ‘canon’ thanks to the advocacy of women, LGBTQ people, peoples of color, and voices from the non-Western world. But the additions of lasting value are texts that use words to help us know our own meaning.”
Ward Wilson: “Our mayor owes our city staff an apology either for alleging they may have committed some crime, or for her misuse of a common word on social media.”
Ashland City Councilor Tonya Graham and Mayor Julie Akins traded barbs as Tuesday evening’s council meeting was coming to a close over a comment the mayor made online about wanting the city to consider a “forensic audit.”
Some weighty decisions await Ashland voters this fall regarding who’s the boss of city parks employees and, probably, on where money raised by the city’s food and beverage tax is spent. The majority of Ashland City Council on Tuesday agreed to let voters decide this November whether to let City Manager Joe Lessard oversee all city employees or keep it the same. Councilors also voted to direct city staff to bring back a dual referendum to let voters decide whether a portion of or all of the city’s 5% food and beverage tax should go to parks.
Ashland Parks & Recreation Commission is facing the possibility of cutting up to four personnel, due to 10% budget cuts recommended by City Manager Joe Lessard, according to Michael Black, executive director of APRC, who plans to present potential cuts during a special meeting via Zoom starting at 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 6.
Both southbound lanes of Interstate 5 just south of Ashland are closed tonight (Tuesday, July 5) after two trucks carrying wood products crashed under the railroad overpass near Exit 11 just south of Ashland.
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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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