Ashland Police Chief Tighe O’Meara told city officials on Monday that lowering the bar to expel those who break the law — primarily repeat offenders — from business areas gives cops a “tool to best react to those unlawful behaviors.”
UPDATE: City officials released expense records for Mayor Tonya Graham’s six-day trip to Ashland’s sister city, Guanajuato, Mexico on Thursday, Aug. 7. Some costs remain unaccounted for.
Mayor Tonya Graham: We have seven unions as well as a group of city employees who are not represented by unions. That group is called the “management pool.” It includes general clerical workers, parks employees, supervisors, department heads, our city manager, and our city attorney, among others.
The Ashland City Council will review tentative agreements that would give city employees an average raise of about 5% raise this fiscal year and then another 2% each of the following two years at a total cost of under $700,000 this year and about $335,000 each of the next two years, for an aggregate total of a little under $1.4 million total over three years.
The long-awaited refurbishment and structural upgrade of Ashland’s historic Pioneer Hall is complete, while work on the Ashland Community Center continues.
Ashland officials and a labor union representing more than 40 city employees reached a tentative agreement that would give workers a 4% pay raise.
An ongoing verbal volley over pickleball again played out at a meeting with city officials and residents on Tuesday, July 15, at Garfield Park as Ashland’s Parks and Recreation Department implements a $20 per hour fee to reserve pickleball courts at Lithia Park.
The Ashland City Council approved a local developer to build affordable housing in the Beach Creek development.
When a wildfire hits the city of Ashland and surrounding areas, what’s your evacuation plan? An estimated 400 attendees packed the Historic Ashland Armory for a two-hour workshop Wednesday, July 16, to learn more about what to do to prepare should such a natural disaster occur in or near Ashland.
Ashland City Councilors unanimously approved increasing taller buildings at SOU, making way for a plan to build a five-story building for seniors.
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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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