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- Subscribe - Contact Us - Rate Card - Place an Ad Archives Revels Classifieds Real Estate Menu Guide Wedding Weather Subscribe Contact Us Ashland City Councilors Russ Silbiger , left, and David Chapman discuss the future of the Ashland Fiber Network at Tuesday night’s city council meeting. December 21, 2005 JPR offers to run AFN Foundation already has ties with network, would still use ISPs An organization familiar to many locals emerged Tuesday night as a potential savior of Ashland’s troubled fiber network. Jefferson Public Radio Foundation Executive Director Ron Kramer said the nonprofit foundation is interested in assuming control over AFN, the city’s cable television and high-speed Internet service. Printed version of the front page of today's Tidings City council approves proposal to explore sale or spin-off network The City of Ashland will test the waters to see how much it could receive for selling the Ashland Fiber Network while also investigating whether spinning it off as a nonprofit is feasible. The city also will explore opportunities for allowing businesses to sell telecommunications products over AFN’s infrastructure, which could bring in revenues, according to a three-pronged approach approved by the Ashland City Council Tuesday night. *UPDATED* Building fire on Siskiyou Blvd. Brett Chancellor, 39 , braves a rooftop inferno as he turns off the propane tank feeding the flames. Chancellor was driving from Central Point to his girlfriend's Ashland home when he saw the fire and stopped to help. See story. Endangered Species founder settles with company Stocking had accused his new partners of a ruthless takeover; details a secret the Valley & State TODAY Rector to step in as city manager Oregon’s flu cases double in a week Freshly squeezed juice ... and rodent? Mon: Essentially Ashland It’s about tyme Mon: Tales From The Crib Kids can do things on their time Mon: From Denmark Time passes quickly as new host family looms Tues: Off The Vine Enjoy the much-ignored Muscat grape Weds:Food & History Christmas Day for the soldier Thurs: Commentary Is there a Renaissance man in the house? Fri: I'll Shut Up — Right After This The need for interrelation is obvious Fri: Healthy Pets Eye worms: ugly cause of red eyes Sat: Marketing Today Preparing for success SOU ROUNDUP Raiders’ rally falls just short SOU women erase big deficit, still lose to ESU ... men win Opinion & Editorial — OPINION PAGE POLICY — LETTERS TO THE EDITOR — GUEST FORUM : at length Di Chiro has earned broad support — EDITORIAL This holiday season is an especially troubling one, when the national debate rages about whether we can still call Christmas “Christmas,” and what is acceptable celebration and what is not, as if there is a Rudolph’s Red Nose chance of people agreeing on anything. May we suggest that everyone take a deep breath. This is the season of giving, so give those who disagree with you a break. COLUMNIST Updated Tuesdays: From the Right Side Mike Green AH ... CHRISTMAS ! Christmas is simply a commodity to be sold to everyone it seems. Take away all of the trappings of what is considered Christmas and people readily agree there is no Christmas. How then can there be a belief that Christmas is anything other than superficialities? Even those who openly profess Christmas is about the birth of a Savior cannot bring themselves to dispense with the relatively new traditions inherent in the "Christmas Commodity." It reminds me of people who smoke or indulge in drugs or too much drinking. Ask any of these folk if they can quit and they will assure you they can, even though the reality is most cannot. And the same principle applies to the Christmas Commodity Consumers . Without the superficial trappings, the CCC cannot fathom what they would do this time of year. For them it is unthinkable to dispense with the traditions upon which they have grown and become accustomed … regardless of what the actual origin or truth of such traditions may mean. "Christmas just isn't Christmas" without all the stuff. CASE IN POINT (OPED) Updated Mondays: — CASE IN POINT : Education In America Schools deserve much better than NCLB This three part series is predicated on the idea that the problems of public education cannot be solved by creating a scaffolding of punitive, reductionistic standardized tests such as those mandated by No Child Left Behind. That is the equivalent of saying that the Titanic could have been saved if enough bailing buckets had been handed out. The system is leaking badly, and while NCLB has the appearance of rigor, its approach seemingly no nonsense, and the word "accountability" used freely by people who seem serious, it’s an illusion. — OBITUARIES — POLICE Few gems brighten a dark year for film Studios should forget about kids and get back to telling stories BLOCKBUSTERS " Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith " $380.3 million " War of the Worlds " $234.3 million " Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire " $229 million " The Wedding Crashers " $210 million " Charlie and Chocolate Factory " $205 million " Batman Begins " $205 million In Review | King Kong All the pieces fit in place for a great movie “King Kong” is a perfectly balanced three-act movie. And it is in Acts Two and Three that Jackson establishes, and then ratchets up the attraction between this huge, ugly monolith of a beast, Kong, and the beautiful, fragile Darrow. It’s what has always made this film so compelling. The script even includes a ricocheting reference to Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness.” But ultimately “King Kong” is not about a journey into the heart of darkness, but one that follows a trajectory straight to that place in the human heart that allows us to care. Even about King Kong. Movies | T.V. | Calendar Stories updated by 5 p.m. Thursday ( Back issues available ) Gypsy Soul ... for the music The music of Gypsy Soul will endeavor to stir audience members’ souls again this holiday season when they perform their fifth annual benefit concert as a fundraiser for WinterSpring Center for Living with Loss and Grief. A ‘warrior princess of comedy’ speaks on improv “It was an actual coronation, with a tiara,” says Eve Smythe, recalling the day she was crowned a “warrior princess of comedy” and inducted into the popular women’s improv troupe, the Hamazons. Aletta Mannix releases Christmas CD MORE LOCAL ENTERTAINMENT Movies: Now playing To light a candle Years ago my brother-in-law, who lives in Australia, sent me a news clipping from his local paper. It was a report about a man who had placed a call to the Down Syndrome Association. The man was very friendly and chatted amiably with the receptionist for several minutes about next to nothing. Finally, she respectfully asked him, “Sir, it’s been fun talking with you, but why have you called the Down Syndrome Association?” “Well,” he said, “It’s winter, and I was just feeling a little down, so I thought I’d call you.” I love that gentle slice of humanity. Church Listings Ashland residents traveling nationwide and around the globe provide first-person accounts of their travels, complete with pictures to share their adventures with the Tidings' readers. FEMA Experience in Texas, September 2005 I was invited by FEMA to act as a Public Information Officer (PIO) in a volunteer capacity. Mis queridos This is my first e-mail and I write it not from Syria but from South Lebanon. New Orleans: Up Close and Personal I returned to my hometown of New Orleans on Oct. 6 to view the devastation and assist my displaced family. The impact of the Gulf Coast tragedy on Native Americans DailyTidings.com Home Page Archives | Revels | Classifieds | Real Estate Guide | Weather | Subscribe | Contact Us Copyright 2005 Ashland Daily Tidings and Ottaway Newspapers All Rights Reserved Deep Muscle Stimulator Ceramic Piggy Banks FREE Entertainment Guide Women's & Men's Slippers Accelerate Weightloss Products Backpacks Generic Viagra Vegas Travel Guide Search Engine Optimization Sportsbook Absinthe Supply Student Loans Hotel & Airline Reservations African Safari Hammocks Helzberg Diamonds Online Casinos Community Bonus Casino King of Spirits ink cartridges Mortgage Calculator Security Systems Mailing Lists Click Here Advertisement .:Advertisements:. 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