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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 mature tree swallow pokes its head out of the nesting boxes at North Mountain Park Nature Center. This box includes a webcam to track the nesting habits of the tree swallows that use the boxes to hatch their eggs. May 18, 2006 North Mountain Park going to the birds Web cam in nest box shows chick development The North Mountain Park Nature Center has put out the welcome mat for as birds of a feather to come flock together. At least that’s what stewardship coordinator Linda Chesney is hoping for. more ... Interim chief starts Monday Ron Goodpaster, who retired from law enforcement three years ago as the Chief of Police for Tigard, will become the interim chief of police for Ashland, effective May 22. Traveling preacher joyfully taunts students In recent days, Matt Bourgault taunted students outside Southern Oregon University’s Stevenson Union, yelling “sinner” to passersby and shouting that students would go to hell if they did not repent. Grade improvement earns rotary scholarship The Rotary Club of Ashland–Lithia Springs awarded Ashland Middle School Eighth Grade Student Johnathan Plumlee their Middle School Scholarship for 2006. Photo editor Orville Hector welcomes you to the O-Zone. Check it out each week and see what "O" is up to when he isn't shooting news and sports. Last update 5/13 Author’s visit puts trash issue out front Mon: Essentially Ashland Smile, you’re (not) on the city’s camera Mon: Tales From The Crib If I had a horse Tues: Off The Vine They actually said it Weds: Food & History More on the Lady Baltimore Thurs: Sustainability Every Oregon home can support clean electricity Fri: I'll Shut Up — Right After This What about love? Fri: Healthy Pets Make sure to restrain pets in cars Fri: For Your Health Are you squatting correctly? Sat: Marketing Today Who should you listen to? Grizzlies leap into SOC district meet Several AHS track and field athletes should contend for league titles Opinion & Editorial — OPINION PAGE POLICY — LETTERS TO THE EDITOR — LETTERS: at length — EDITORIAL Take a pass in 2006? Solutions lacking thus far Updated Tuesdays: From the Right Side Mike Green The clash of two worlds: one fun; one reverent Beneath the war of words and “justified” conflicts that inflict pain torture and death, there is a similar vein running through both Western and Muslim cultures — both sides are motivated out of fear and defense of their beliefs. Since the early 1950’s, when the U.S. government joined Britain in a conquest for importing oil from the Middle East, it also exported something else — western culture and values — a demonic force viewed by the Muslim Brotherhood as intolerable. more ... CASE IN POINT (OPED) Updated Mondays: — Case In Point : An agenda needed for ’06 This is a seminal moment in our history, and Americans are coming to grips with the fact that while issues loom that beg for solutions, there is a vacuum of leadership in government and a poverty of imagination in the White House that is stunning to behold. But that was then and this is now. Over the course of the next few months, Case in Point would like to contribute to that discourse and so we will examine those issues deemed to be in intensive care and going critical. So here’s the working list ... no obituaries published today — POLICE Reviews of stage & film Who is abler than Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), the famed Norwegian playwright, at rattling skeletons in the closet? Especially those of the Alving family in his haunting masterpiece “Ghosts” (1881), now being presented by SOU Theater Arts in its Center Square Theater through May 21. Hollywood rolls out the summer blockbusters 'Going Shopping' at the Varsity Coming Attractions Theatres, Inc. and Director Henry Jaglom combined to present a week of benefit screenings that started Friday of “Going Shopping,” Jaglom’s latest film. One hundred precent of the proceeds will go directly to the nonprofit Ashland Independent Film Festival, which offered the film during April’s festival. I hear what you’re saying: Freud turns 150 . *Notice The Daily Tidings web site is undergoing a process of renovation in order to make improvements that will provide our readers an even more enjoyable interactive experience. Please pardon the problems in the coming weeks as we strive to make the Tidings' web site on a par with our award-winning print product. If you notice any particular problems or would like to offer constructive suggestions, or perhaps just want to tell us what improvements you really like, please direct your comments to the Content Editor at [email protected]. We welcome your input and appreciate your patience. Does Ashland need a new downtown plan? Once you vote you will be taken to the results page. Only 1 vote per person will be counted Movies | T.V. | Calendar Stories updated by 6 p.m. Thursday ( Back issues available ) 'The Forum' Curly hair and beard frame a gnomish sparkle in the mischievous eyes of this bacchanalian looking fellow named Pat Patton. Patton takes time out of his busy rehearsal schedule to sit down and discuss his exciting and long awaited return to Ashland as the director for “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” at Southern Oregon University Center Stage Theatre May 18 through June 4. Artist in Ashland ‘In the Realm of Dreams’ New to Ashland, Linda Lamore is preparing for her first public show LOCAL ENTERTAINMENT MOVIE: In Review Poseidon remake sinks to the bottom MOVIES: NOW PLAYING Duncan has plenty of gems to share at program Wednesday “I’d heard at church that the kingdom of heaven is within us and thought, Yeah, sure. But the first time I walked up a trout stream, fly in hand, I didn’t feel I was ‘outside’ at all: I was traveling further and further in.” So says David James Duncan, author of the novel “The River Why.” Perhaps you’re reading it right now, having accepted the invitation of our county to be part of our “Jackson County Reads” program. I hope so. Duncan’s prose is worth the effort. “I was struck by the suspicion that rivers and mountains are myself turned inside out,” he wrote. Bingo. Church Listings --> Copyright © 2006 Ashland Daily Tidings and Ottaway Newspapers. All Rights Reserved.