With nightly menorah lightings, gift giving and delicious fried foods to try, the Hanukkah season is soon approaching, and an Ashland synagogue and a Rogue Valley Jewish center will host community events to celebrate the holiday.
The establishment of an enhanced law enforcement area in the south Ashland business corridor would be a “step in the right direction,” for the area’s ongoing problem with certain “negative behaviors,” Ashland Police Chief Tighe O’Meara told Ashland.news in an interview Friday.
Despite surprisingly heavy snowfall, urgently plowed roads and sporadic spinouts, Saturday saw an estimated 2,000 skiers braving mountain roads to give Mt. Ashland Ski Area launch day for its long-awaited new chair lift, the first new lift in more than 30 years.
Ashland City Council will vote on the second reading of an Enhanced Law Enforcement Area ordinance for the south side of town at its business meeting Tuesday. Council will also consider approving a potential new staff position, a social services coordinator who would endeavor to increase regional cooperation, improve communication and support planning surrounding homelessness, mental health and addiction.
High winds and pouring rain didn’t keep hundreds of Ashland High School students, family, teachers, and friends from attending the 33rd Winter Fine Arts Festival at AHS Friday night.
Hundreds of Ashlanders came bearing belongings to the Historic Ashland Armory Sunday afternoon, only to leave a few hours later will all-new (to them) belongings, many soon to be passed on as gifts to others.
A big-hearted, anonymous donor has gifted the Ashland School District with a total donation of $890,000 via Ashland Schools Foundation, helping the district avoid more than six furlough days in the balance of the 2024-25 school year, as the district faces the need to cut $2.2 million of its $40 million budget.
More than 1,800 Oregonians died of drug overdoses in 2023, a rising trend that state leaders want to reverse with new programs to combat addiction. In Jackson County, people experiencing drug overdoses entered hospital emergency rooms 736 times in 2023. That same year, 130 people in the southern Oregon county died of drug overdoses.
Tuesday, December 17, 2024Council Chambers, 1175 E Main Street Live stream via rvtv.sou.edu select RVTV Prime. Recorded meetings are available on our website. Public testimony will be accepted for both public
Monday, December 16, 2024 Council 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
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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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