With continuing budget woes at Ashland School District that mirror other districts in the state, Superintendent Joseph Hattrick announced in a staff-wide email Wednesday morning he is implementing a hiring freeze, a tightening of the policy since the Ashland School Board met on Sept. 12.
AIFF held a preview night for the upcoming film fest on Sept. 18. The arts, environment, and social activism are three of the main movie themes making up the list for AIFF 2024, coming up Oct. 3-6. The 2024 lineup includes more than 60 movie premieres, many with in-depth Q&A discussions with filmmakers, guest artists and actors in attendance.
Obituary: The Rev. Dr. Bert Axel Anderson Jr. died Aug. 13 at the age of 95 at Celia’s House in Medford. Bert Anderson directed Atelier, a popular playwrights’ and actors’ workshop that provided a free venue for dramatic readings of new plays by local playwrights in Ashland. A memorial service will be held for Bert at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, at Trinity Episcopal Church, 44 N. Second Street, Ashland.
Catty Corner: Kitty litter and boxes remain a hot topic among humans who are owned by felines. In today’s column, we tackle a question about whether it’s OK to flush cat poop and/or litter down our human toilets.
Poetry Corner: There’s something about September that inspires songs and poetry. Marisa Peterson’s poem evokes much more than “never.” Her poem is full of memories of canning Romas, blanching green beans, and the meals that followed through the seasons.
Major roadwork is planned next week Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, through downtown Ashland, the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) has announced. The southbound lanes of North and East Main Street — aka Highway 99 — are set for grinding and paving Monday from Maple to Third streets while the northbound lanes of Lithia Way and Main Street from Third to Maple streets is planned for Tuesday.
Seasons are quickly changing and so are cell phone policies this fall for Ashland high schoolers. Besides having a new school resource officer on campus at Ashland High School this fall, the most notable change students are experiencing is likely its new cell phone policy implemented as the school year began in early September.
A new free breakfast and lunch program at Ashland schools got off to a slow start but is now offering meals to more than half the K-12 students. Ashland qualifies to offer the free meal program because it has a childhood poverty rate that exceeds 50%, based on federal guidelines.
Gary Shaff: For many local cyclists, the Ashland bicycle scene isn’t great if you don’t head up the trails on your mountain bike, or sport Lycra shorts, or enjoy riding 50 miles and climb to the top of the Greensprings.
Pursuant to Article X, Section 2(c) of the Ashland City Charter, the Ashland City Council will hold a public hearing on October 1, 2024, at 6:00 p.m., in the Council
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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.
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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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