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- Subscribe - Contact Us - Rate Card - Place an Ad Archives Revels Classifieds Real Estate Menu Guide Wedding Weather Subscribe Contact Us January 7, 2006 The Tidings' Top 10 Without question, 2005 was a busy year for news, both in Southern Oregon and the world outside. What follows is a chronological list of the most important stories of 2005 in terms of community impact. See the front page of the printed version of today's Tidings WEEKEND Search for city admin is on track With the search for a new Ashland city administrator moving along quickly, current City Administrator Gino Grimaldi may leave Ashland sooner than expected. School board to consider pesticide use A miscommunication between the Ashland School District and the Jackson County Roads, Parks and Planning Department resulted in the application of herbicides on school district property in August without school board consent. School bonds are likely candidates for this year’s ballot The Ashland School District is still talking about floating a second education tax initiative in the November election. WEEKEND BUSINESS Ashland insurance agent honored by Walden U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Oregon, praised the time Terry Adams has dedicated to the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents and the Ashland community. FRIDAY Ashland, Talent dodged the worst The near-repeat of the ‘97 flood won’t go down in the history books as the region’s most devastating high-water events. Downtown plan back on track City officials, residents start work on ‘a plan to formulate the plan’ They're here! first born babies of 2006 How to plant a tree, the right way This autumn, the citizens of Ashland completed the annual Tree of the Year selection process by nominating and voting in record numbers. They chose the Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) located at 165 Almond Street as the 2005 Tree of the Year. This fun and educational process of nominating and voting for some of Ashland’s finest trees is one of many ways our community expresses its appreciation for trees in general and for one special tree that, for whatever personal reasons, is beautiful and significant to us. Mon: Essentially Ashland Amy ... above the din Mon: Tales From The Crib Renewing last year’s resolution Mon: From Denmark Feeling out of place, a snowfall provides relief Tues: Off The Vine Now’s a good time for wine resolutions Weds: Food & History Japanese New Year’s monsters Thurs: Commentary Calling all uniters Fri: I'll Shut Up — Right After This As days grow longer, time for reflection Fri: Healthy Pets Beware of salmon poisoning Sat: Marketing Today Jump-start your days A senior season full of promise When Ashland High School senior Hallie Beaver isn’t sneaking out of study session to talk with a reporter, riding her horse Capone or shooting pool, she’s always focused on one thing: snowboarding. AHS girls win in double OT Three days after suffering an agonizing loss to North Medford, the Ashland High girls’ basketball team experienced the flip side of the Southern Oregon Conference roller coaster Friday night. Grizz boys off to solid SOC start Ashland forced 30 turnovers and used a hefty advantage on the glass to offset a tough night at the foul line during a 55-39 Southern Oregon Conference-opening win over Crater on Friday. SOU’s search for football coach winds down Experience or potential? That’s the decision Southern Oregon University will have to make when it comes to choosing its next head football coach. FRIDAY Raiders aim to halt skid against archrival OIT Oregon Tech has won 11 straight games over SOU South the team to beat Panthers rated No. 1, Ashland No. 4 in SOC preseason poll Raiders hire new CC coach Former K. Union harriers guru to take over Southern Oregon Hopes high as slopes in Ashland Alpine, nordic ski teams open season this weekend Opinion & Editorial — There is no editorial today — LETTERS TO THE EDITOR — OPINION PAGE POLICY COLUMNIST Updated Tuesdays: From the Right Side Mike Green Beyond suicide bombings: hiding the truth in plain sight Forget everything you think you know about the War on Terror. It’s all a lie. And if you are prone to believe the rhetoric about the intentions of bad man Saddam Hussein and his past potential for targeting and attacking the United States, perhaps you would also be interested in some scenic waterfront property in New Orleans … right next to the levee. Two men are responsible for most everything the American public believes about Iraq and the threat to America. Those two names I will present to you in this column because they are currently at the pinnacle of power in a winner-take-all scheme for literally trillions of dollars in oil revenues over the course of the next quarter century. Both men are CIA operatives. CASE IN POINT (OPED) Updated Mondays: — CASE IN POINT The mother of all distractions The war in Iraq has also been the source of abiding distraction for the United States. Since Sept. 11, 2001, the administration, which entered into this war by choice and not necessity, has used the bully pulpit of the presidency to discuss little else. To our peril we have ignored and continue to ignore pressing issues regarding the environment, foreign oil dependency, social security, our national deficit, health care and health insurance, education, the infrastructure and electrical grids, and our porous borders. The list could go on. We have also ignored international realities that could swamp us and the free world. There are no obituaries today — POLICE Ashland gets the blues Movies | T.V. | Calendar Stories updated by 5 p.m. Thursday ( Back issues available ) How GREEN was my ballot? Bay Area playwright brings political one-woman show to Oregon Stage Works Alzado: From soap opera to Broadway to off Bardway Camelot Theatre Company presents the first in its Second Stage Music Series for 2006: “Spotlight on The Life and Music of Billie Holiday … a Little Biography and a Lot of Music!” starring Livia Genise. MORE LOCAL ENTERTAINMENT Movies: Now playing Ashland’s cultural heritage should be held up as a model Recently I was looking through a collection of materials housed in our fine library concerning the history of the Ashland Chautauqua society. The Chautauqua movement was begun in America by the Rev. John Heyl Vincent in 1874. Like millions of others of his countrymen, Vincent was appalled by the horrors of the Civil War. No one had imagined at the outset that such a war could have been so bloody. One United States Congressman had said on the floor of the House that he did not fear such a conflict. He insisted that the blood drawn in the event of a war between the states could be “mopped up with a single pocket handkerchief.” Ashlander offers interfaith tours to the Holy Land 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. 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