Bob Kaplan: Tucked into a narrow canyon, our current drinking water plant is vulnerable to floods, landslides and wildfire, and there’s no space to treat harmful toxins that are more frequent as our summers get warmer and drier.
Audiences at the premiere of the documentary “Including Us” during the Ashland Independent Film Festival 2024 were clearly moved by the film, with some tears shed to the accompaniment of applause and a standing ovation on Oct. 5.
John F. Kennedy: “In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course.”
Voters have seven places across Jackson County to drop off their ballots anytime day or night. New partnerships with local law enforcement and modern camera technologies are among the tools used to preserve election security ahead of the Nov. 5 vote.
Curtain Call: Terry Longshore’s “Full Circle: Turtle Wisdom” will bring artist Betty LaDuke’s vibrant “Turtle Wisdom” series to life through the resonant sounds of a gong orchestra on Nov. 8 at ScienceWorks Hands-On Museum. Performers will include Terry Longshore, the SOU Percussion Ensemble and students of Longshore’s SOU Honors College course, Making Music.
The long-range security of Ashland’s drinking water supply requires an improvement in its facilities in a less risk-prone setting, but the cost of such a project and uncertainty about who’ll pay how much for how long requires more information before taking on the huge debt involved, Rotary Club of Ashland members were told at their weekly meeting in Wesley Hall at First United Methodist Church on Sept. 12.
A fugitive with ties to Southern Oregon is on the run after eluding capture Tuesday in Idaho, authorities said. Christian Bert Fischer, 42, was in Ashland, Lake of the Woods and Wolf Creek in June and July.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024Council Chambers, 1175 E Main Street Live stream viarvtv.sou.edu select RVTV Prime. Recorded meetings are available on our website. Public testimony will be accepted for both public forum
Jackson County Fire District No. 3 board members unanimously approved an intergovernmental agreement (IGA) Oct. 17 that will render much-needed aid — by way of administrative support — to Jackson County Fire District No. 5. Finalization of the IGA comes after months of discussion over how District 3 could provide assistance to its embattled sister district, which serves nearly 23,000 patrons on the south end of the Rogue Valley in Talent, Phoenix and unincorporated Ashland.
For the upcoming Ashland City Council election, all candidates were contacted by Ashland.news for interviews. All who responded were asked the same six questions. Answers from candidates competing for the same position were paired together. In this, the first of two articles on uncontested seats, we hear from incumbent Mayor Tonya Graham.
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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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