In the face of looming $6 million cuts to the $66.7 million university budget and nearly 10% drop in fall freshman enrollment, Southern Oregon University President Rick Bailey is preparing to cut his annual salary by 20%.
The Japan All-Star Team shut out the South Valley Wolfpack — an Ashland and Phoenix team — in the 18th Pacific Rim Bowl, a historic cultural exchange between Ashland High School and Japan’s All-Stars that started in 1988.
Former Southern Oregon University President Roy Saigo asked the audience at the third Pacific Rim Bowl Peace Ceremony on Tuesday at Lithia Park’s Butler Bandshell to take a trip with him back to the early days of World War II when his family was ripped from its home.
Dr. Hideko Tamura-Snider gave a spirited message of optimism and hope for the future of the Pacific Rim Bowl and its participants, organizers, and supporters on Tuesday, July 22, during the third PRB Peace Ceremony at Lithia Park’s Butler Bandshell.
A high school football cultural exchange started in Ashland in 1988 between Ashland High School and the Japan All-Stars, made up of student athletes from multiple high schools in Japan. Today, the Japan All-Stars are made up of 47 players from 17 schools from Osaka, Kyoto, and Kobe, and 55 players from the Ashland and Phoenix high school football programs.
A Phoenix-Ashland high school team of 55 will face 47 athletes from central Japan on Friday for the 18th Pacific Rim Bowl. The teams are 9-8 in favor of Japan since the beginning of the program in 1988, but this year is the first to include both Phoenix High School and AHS players.
Ashland City Councilors unanimously approved increasing taller buildings at SOU, making way for a plan to build a five-story building for seniors.
A project proposal by St. Louis-based firm McCormack Baron Salazar aimed at outlining a proposed housing development for senior independent living near the southeast corner of the Southern Oregon University campus could cost upwards of $64 million, pending selection by an evaluation committee and a finalized project plan.
An estimated 120 to 150 attendees trickled into Southern Oregon University’s Recital Hall on Wednesday to learn more about the Rogue Valley Manor’s parent company Pacific Retirement Services and its pitch to operate a senior living housing development proposed for the Ashland campus. Another company will talk about its plans on Friday afternoon.
Two newly elected Ashland School Board members and an elected incumbent will be sworn in Thursday evening, July 10, at a regular school board meeting in the Ashland City Council chamber at 1175 E. Main St.
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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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