
Public Notice: NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Pursuant to Article X, Section 2(c) of the Ashland City Charter, the Ashland City Council will hold a public hearing on April 2, 2024, at 6:00 p.m.

Pursuant to Article X, Section 2(c) of the Ashland City Charter, the Ashland City Council will hold a public hearing on April 2, 2024, at 6:00 p.m.
George Kramer: The city proposes to pay for this huge expense by raising our water rates 77% over the next five years. Maybe that’s the best option. Before every Ashland resident takes on that sort of debt, perhaps we need to talk about it as a community. The petition will allow time to do just that.

Dear Strider: This week, two perplexed pets weigh in with their concerns, giving Strider an opening to warn about Easter chocolate being poison to dogs.

The proposed installation of a wireless communication facility at Southern Oregon University will be discussed at a public meeting Thursday. Verizon will host the meeting from 7 to 8 p.m. March 28 in the Rogue River Room of Stevenson Union at SOU.

The forest in Ashland’s watershed won’t be the same after Wednesday, March 27, when a helicopter logging project will begin in the watershed, spanning over popular trails such as Bandersnatch and Lewis Lookout to remove dead and dying trees.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Ashland, Oregon (the “City”) adopted Resolution No. 2024-05 on March 5, 2024.

Tucked inside a big $97.5-billion transportation and housing appropriation bill approved by Congress and President Joe Biden earlier this month was a tiny outlay of $400,000 for the design and engineering of 4 miles of fencing for a proposed wildlife crossing over Interstate 5 near the Oregon-California border.

A metal found in the Earth’s crust could be used to attract and remove climate-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The process could help improve nascent technologies in capturing carbon dioxide from the air to slow the impacts of global climate change.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday announced it would not hear appeals in two court cases that upheld the 2017 expansion of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. Conservationists and other monument supporters celebrated, while timber industry organizations and other opponents of the expansion expressed disappointment.

Oregon voters will see a big name missing when they open their state-issued voters’ pamphlet next month: Republican Donald Trump. Trump’s campaign declined to provide a statement for the pamphlet and didn’t share a reason.
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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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