Oregon lawmakers on the joint addiction committee on Tuesday evening voted for a proposal to backtrack on Measure 110 and reshape the state’s approach to the drug addiction and overdose crisis after months of planning and an intensive three weeks of debate and reworking the proposal.
Students from three elementary schools cheered on the Southern Oregon University women’s basketball team to a 65-49 win Friday, Feb. 23, against Walla Walla. The Raiders beat Corban 71-55 Tuesday, advancing SOU to host No. 4 seed Eastern Oregon at 5:30 p.m. Friday in the conference tournament semifinals.
Talent councilor Jason Clark: “People all over the world want a negotiated solution that provides peace and justice for both Israelis and Palestinians. More military aid just provokes more resistance and makes a negotiated solution harder to achieve.”
Heavy snow can be expected about 2,500 feet in coming days, the National Weather Service cautions in a winter storm warning issued Tuesday. Effective from 4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 28, through 4 a.m. Friday, March 1, the warning covers areas of Jackson, Douglas, Curry, Coos and Josephine counties.
Jill Franko: If the community continues down the path of what is projected, we will become a retirement community whose property values, life expectancies and quality of life for all its residents decrease — UNLESS.
A woman seriously burned in a January fire on the Ashland “night lawn” camping area for the homeless is healing from serious injuries, but her fiancé remains in intensive care. One of the two people arrested in the incident pled guilty and has been released, while another remains in jail awaiting trial.
Ashland firefighters were recently honored for saving a woman’s life by pulling her out of a burning house last year. They sat down with Ashland.news to tell their story.
Winegrower John Pratt will speak about the Rogue Valley as a treasured location for top-shelf location for quality grapes and wine at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 14, at Southern Oregon University’s Hannon Library, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland.
Ask Strider: This week, a sympathetic Strider gives advice on how to get out of the doghouse, and how to comfort a delusional pal.
Ashland Fire & Rescue responded to a call at the Donald E. Lewis Retirement Center on Monday evening to find the building’s sprinkler systems had already extinguished the fire. The fire in a restroom at the facility on YMCA Way had burned in a small trash can but by the time residents evacuated the building and firefighters arrived, the automatic sprinkler system had put out the fire.
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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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