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Ashland, Oregon HOME Valley & State Sports Opinion/Editorial Classifieds Business Columnists Obituaries Weather Archive Revels Etcetera Backpage O-Zone Real Estate Guide Menu Guide Shakespeare Subscribe Contact Us Rate Card Place an Ad A Jackson County Sheriff talks to Ed Hill at his Ashland home during a search for Elbert Higginbotham today. March 27, 2006 * updated by 5 p.m. daily Higginbothams missing ... again Elbert Higginbotham and his wife Rebecca Ann Bess were missing for 17 days before they were found. Now they are, again, missing. Jackson County Sheriff’s Department had obtained an arrest warrant for the pair, but when deputies went to pick them up today, they were no longer at either of the Ashland addresses where they had been staying. Click here to see the front page of the printed version of today's Tidings New city administrator chosen Mayor picks Martha Bennett, director of the Columbia Gorge commission, to fill position School seeks approval for consolidation Siskiyou School wants to add to Clay Street classroom space Fudged tax bill leads to closure City says Plaza sweet shop owed more than $23,000 of meals tax Mental illness doesn’t always show Ever since Deborah Weiner died, Steve Weiner’s been saying inscrutable things. “After my sister’s suicide, I decided I wasn’t going to my grave silent just to look good for other people,” Steve says. Suspenders support his cuffed blue jeans. Keeping up with New Year’s resolutions “A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other,” an unknown author once said. As April approaches, your New Year’s resolutions are probably slipping away faster than the countdown to month four of 2006. Mon: Essentially Ashland A Peerless experience Mon: Tales From The Crib On going on dates – or not Mon: From Denmark Cartoons shatter Danes’ feeling of safety Tues: Off The Vine It’s hard to define ‘a good wine’ Weds: Food & History The Lady Baltimore Cake story Thurs: Commentary A lust for competition is key to success Thurs: Sustainability Every Oregon home can support clean electricity Fri: I'll Shut Up — Right After This Bonobo – it’s not an ice cream flavor Fri: Healthy Pets Royal Canin recalls some lines of pet food Sat: Marketing Today What does your business do? Prep Baseball Grizzlies sidestep 0-3 SOC start San Nicholas leads the way in Game 2 SOU Roundup Raiders split with Corban SOU softballers overcome 3-0 deficit in Game 2 Opinion & Editorial — LETTERS TO THE EDITOR — OPINION PAGE POLICY Updated Tuesdays: From the Right Side Mike Green Second chances in today’s society Let’s face it. Someone’s got to do the grungy work in this society. So it may as well be those derelict students who want to smoke cigarettes, get drunk, get high, and party all the time. They’re headed for trouble anyway. We all know it. It’s a dirty little secret among those who pretend that it’s merely a right of passage for every teen. But the road toward trouble is filled with wild parties, lots of sex, booze, drugs and rock and roll … or maybe pulsing electronic music if you’re into raves and more intense hedonistic behavior. ... CASE IN POINT (OPED) Updated Mondays: — Case In Point : Forty-five years of hard love I woke slowly, staring up at the ceiling, my eyes adjusting to the slow rotation of the ceiling fan. The barest breeze stirred the curtains in my hotel room. It was early, the sky still just a bruise of purple and blue, but already the heat was unrelenting, a foreshadowing of another moist, hot day in Cartagena. I wouldn’t have been surprised had the sun decided one day simply not to set. I was a Peace Corps volunteer and a long way from my “Kansas,” i.e., California. I had only been in Cartagena a few days, stationed in this Caribbean city where I would teach in a normal school. My tour was for two years. Life throbbed, pulsated, the center of town teemed with people, many black, whose ancestors long ago were brought to Cartagena to build the walls and fortifications. They spoke a type of Spanish that I had never heard before, consonants swallowed, words clipped, coming at me in a rush, often unintelligible. — Obituaries — Police click here to see print version A bodily connection through dance In Review | A Little Night Music A lighthearted, if confusing, tale of love and sex Toots and the Maytals perform at the Historic Ashland Armory , Saturday at 8:30 p.m. with opening act The Southland . Toots Hibbert is one of the great voices of Jamaica; a legend whose career spans every development in Jamaican music, from ska through rock-steady to reggae. Movies | T.V. | Calendar Stories updated by 6 p.m. Thursday ( Back issues available ) Isabelle Grossman thinks her life is just fine. She has her own apartment on New York’s Upper West Side, a job she relishes in a bookstore and a thrilling crush on a local author, but every day she’s still … ‘Crossing Delancey’ Celtic fiddle and cello blend at the Unitarian Center Fiddler Alasdair Fraser and cellist Natalie Haas perform the music of Scotland on Friday at 8 p.m., at the Unitarian Center, Fourth and C streets. Young guitar talent lights up the stage at SOU MORE LOCAL ENTERTAINMENT Movies: Now playing Poetry often pierces to the heart of ethics “When Nazim Hikmet, the Turkish poet who spent half his adult life in prison, speaks of Spring coming and the sun rising, you can sense that he is seeing Spring coming through a barred window.” 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. * Note: The stories below are submitted by local residents traveling outside of Oregon. These submissions are not changed on a regular basis, but will be replaced as other submissions are received. Enjoy. FEMA Experience in Texas 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 --> Copyright © 2006 Ashland Daily Tidings and Ottaway Newspapers. All Rights Reserved.