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Ashland seeks partners to provide cooling shelter
“The city is actively looking for a community partner to open a cooling/smoke shelter this summer,” city Communications Officer Dorinda Cottle said.
June 10, 2025
“The city is actively looking for a community partner to open a cooling/smoke shelter this summer,” city Communications Officer Dorinda Cottle said.
Gov. Tina Kotek on Friday said she’s ordered the extradition of a suspected member of a multi-state burglary ring who allegedly targeted Asian households throughout the Eugene area and fled to Texas, averting some of the blowback she faced for rejecting the extradition earlier this week.
Former Ashland councilor Eric Navickas was arrested following an accusation of racist comments and a subsequent altercation with Police Chief Tighe O’Meara during an Ashland City Council meeting Tuesday evening.
Former Ashland City Council candidate Eric Navickas was arrested after a scuffle with Ashland Chief of Police Tighe O’Meara following an accusation of racist comments during the Ashland City Council business meeting Tuesday.
“It was really scary. Actually my boyfriend is Jewish and my stepfather is Jewish too. … I’m from Redding. I came here to get away from that stuff.” — an SOU student
A California man allegedly stole a vehicle in Medford and was ultimately pursued by multiple law enforcement agencies across three cities before causing a multi-car crash in Ashland and his subsequent arrest Monday evening.
A Tuesday afternoon truck crash on Interstate 5 near the Oregon-California border has closed the southbound lanes of traffic, according to the Oregon Department of Transportation.
A Monday afternoon traffic crash at Ashland’s North Main and Maple streets that resulted in hospitalizations was connected to police activity, according to the City of Ashland’s Facebook page, though additional details were not immediately available.
Supporters of imprisoned wildland firefighter Brian “Hakiym” Simpson and a defense attorney who represented him in court are sending an almost 3,000-signature petition and letter to Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, urging her to exonerate the 42-year-old and have him released from prison.
An Ashland resident arrested for kidnapping another man and assaulting multiple strangers and police officers in downtown Ashland April 12 was indicted on multiple charges by a grand jury Thursday.
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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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