The Ashland City Council will hold a special meeting at 5:30 p.m. today, Oct. 30, to appoint a candidate to fill the position of municipal judge for the remainder of the recently retired Pamela Turner’s term of office, according to meeting materials on the city of Ashland’s website.
Local organizers are planning an inaugural post-Burning Man meetup in Southern Oregon this Saturday, Nov. 2, at Lithia Park in Ashland. The free event is open to all, even if you’ve never been to the popular festival in northwest Nevada.
Dean Silver: I organized the petition drive against Resolution 2024-05 in March. I was shocked that the City Council would authorize up to $75 million of debt at 4.77% for 35 years without referring the question to the people who would be paying — the voters. With the terms presented, that debt could result in over $150 million of total cost with interest.
Obituary: Wendy Ross was known for accessorizing with statement necklaces and stylish hats. She loved putting together an outfit for a night out at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival or a service at Rogue Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.
At a special meeting of Ashland’s Planning Commission on Tuesday, Oct. 22, the lengthy process of implementing a state program to designate Climate Friendly Areas (CFAs) for future development came into sharper focus, with some surprises and a little controversy.
Established in 1904, Mountain View Cemetery is the largest of three town cemeteries owned and operated by the city of Ashland. Just over 18 acres, this tranquil oasis is bordered by the Central Bike Path, Normal Avenue, and Ashland Street.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Ashland Planning Commission will hold their annual retreat on Thursday, November 7, 2024 from 12:00-4:00 p.m. They will convene at the Community Development &
After six decades of helping to provide fire protection for his rural community on the flanks of Mount Ashland, lifelong Colestin resident Steve Avgeris has yet to hang up his hose. Nearing a full year since residents of the rural community voted to dissolve the Colestin Rural Fire Protection District — with plans to be annexed by Jackson County Fire District No. 5 just months later — the former chief of the now-defunct district maintains his fire apparatus and still responds to calls for help.
Ashland loves Halloween. If you don’t think that’s true, head downtown at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31, for the Ashland Chamber of Commerce’s Children’s Halloween Celebration. The parade of costumed revelers starts up Main Street from the Ashland Public Library to the Plaza.
Past the Wonder trailhead, at the top of a road just wide enough to permit two-way traffic, Ashland’s Water Treatment Plant is a sprawl of low buildings filling the available flat ground where mountains come shoulder to shoulder. Ashland’s Public Works Director Scott Fleury gave Ashland.news a tour of the facility to explain how it works and why the city decided to take out a loan of up to $75 million to replace it.
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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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