Oregon Rep. Pam Marsh, D-Ashland, has secured a leadership role for the 2025 legislative session that is already racking up a long list of pressing issues. Marsh will be sworn in to her fifth term on Jan. 13 and has been appointed as one of the three assistant majority leaders. She is the only representative selected for a leadership role in the House who lives south of Eugene.
Among considerations being proposed by Ashland School District amid a looming $2.2 million in budget cuts are cutting five to 10 days of school and/or moving to a four-day work week, according to Rebecca Dyson, Ashland School Board chair, who spoke to Ashland.news before the first of several listening sessions with Superintendent Joseph Hattrick regarding potential budget cuts. No actions have been taken nor will be taken without public comment.
A standing-room-only crowd filled 160-seat Carpenter Hall in Ashland on Tuesday, Nov. 12, one week after Election Day, as community members joined The Ashland Sunrise Project for a discussion on “Building Post-Election Common Ground,” intended to highlight how to build a common ground of understanding.
Soroptomist Report: The Soroptimist Strong Girls Strong Women (SSGSW) Program was created in 2008, with Helman Elementary School selected to be Soroptimist’s partner. Now, after 16 years, despite COVID and other changes, we are back!
Curtain Call: Abigail Mace is the artistic director and conductor of Jefferson Baroque Orchestra, a position she assumed last March. Jefferson Baroque’s upcoming concerts will be December performances of Handel’s “Messiah,” a beloved holiday tradition.
After nearing what they call their “bottom line,” Providence Medford nurses say “nothing is off the table” after a Tuesday bargaining session failed to end in a new contract with hospital administration. A strike authorization vote date is pending for Medford registered nurses represented by the Oregon Nurses Association.
Oregon’s keystone plan to regulate fossil fuel companies and reduce planet-warming greenhouse gas pollution will be reinstated in early 2025 after being derailed for nearly a year by a gas industry lawsuit. The Environmental Quality Commission voted unanimously on Thursday to approve the program.
After years of increasing staffing even as enrollment declined, Ashland School District needs to reduce its 2024-2025 fiscal year budget by more than $2.2 million by mid-2025, according to a review by a statewide education official. Superintendent Joseph Hattrick is asking staff and the public to weigh in on a district plan on how to move forward with cuts.
A series of technical restrictions that has long bedeviled Ashland city staff seeking to stand up a winter shelter may be solved enough to provide an interim shelter as soon as next week, according to a presentation by City Manager Sabrina Cotta at Tuesday’s council meeting. Council also voted unanimously to support the proposal of a six-month pilot program to provide long-awaited storage facilities for the dusk-to-dawn sleeping area.
Cancer patients may soon see safer, more effective treatments thanks to groundbreaking research by a team that included Dr. Dawn Lemanne of Oregon Integrative Oncology in Ashland. Her team won first prize and a $50,000 grant at an international mathematical oncology competition in early November at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida.
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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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