
Public Notice – Council Business Meeting Agenda
Council Business Meeting Agenda ASHLAND CITY COUNCIL BUSINESS MEETING AGENDA Tuesday, August 5, 2025 Council Chambers, 1175 E Main Street Live stream via RVTV Prime at rvtv.sou.edu or broadcast on

Council Business Meeting Agenda ASHLAND CITY COUNCIL BUSINESS MEETING AGENDA Tuesday, August 5, 2025 Council Chambers, 1175 E Main Street Live stream via RVTV Prime at rvtv.sou.edu or broadcast on

Council Study Session Meeting Agenda ASHLAND CITY COUNCIL STUDY SESSION AGENDA Monday, August 4, 2025 Council Chambers, 1175 E Main Street Live stream via RVTV Prime at rvtv.sou.edu or broadcast

Starting on Friday, Aug. 1, and per his own request to the Southern Oregon University Board of Trustees, SOU’s President Rick Bailey will take a 20% or $53,000 reduction to his $290,000 salary over the remainder of the fiscal year, following a unanimous virtual vote by SOU Trustees Wednesday afternoon.

A group of Democratic states that sued the federal government over an unprecedented shift in federal policy to bar thousands of immigrants without permanent legal status from accessing community benefits like child care and pre-K won’t be subject to those changes until early September.

Lucie K. Scheuer: The production of “Quixote Nuevo” — based on a 500-year-old story — fits with today’s cultural milieu. It is like striking gold. Great art can reach across centuries if you can provide a believable context.

Tickets to watch the 2025 Southern Oregon University football team go on sale next week. Last year’s season-ticket holders can renew their spots from Aug. 4 until Aug. 7. All season tickets (including those unclaimed by previous holders) and single-game tickets will be released on Aug. 7.

A 30% increase to the Oregon labor bureau’s budget will help the agency hire 50 investigators to help reduce a backlog of wage theft and discrimination cases.

The Shasta map is especially relevant to hikers and climbers in Southern Oregon because it includes the popular Avalanche Gulch route on the south side of Shasta to the more challenging, less traveled Hotlum-Bolum Ridge and Bolum Glacier north-side routes.

Sage on Stage: This is part one of actors’ experiences working as an ensemble, what makes it fun, what makes it fly, and what it does for the audience as well as the actors themselves.

Two Ashland restaurants — Alchemy Restaurant and Bar and Larks Home Kitchen Cuisine — have earned national recognition for their exceptional wine programs.
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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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