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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 Ashland police chief Mike Bianca talks to a small group of community members outside the City Council Chambers before Tuesday night’s council meeting. A majority of the city council voted to discuss Bianca’s resignation in executive session Thursday afternoon. April 5, 2006 * updated by 5 p.m. daily Resignation on hold Ashland Police Chief Mike Bianca’s resignation is now in limbo. SOUND OFF! You can have your comments about the Bianca story published right along with the article. Just click on the photo or the headline above and use our convenient response system. Click here for the front page of the printed version of today's Tidings Rally precedes meeting Fifty people turn out to show support for Bianca before city council action Landscape to protect and serve Ashland’s forensics lab will meet security code Oregon TODAY Governor touts expanding tourism Five years for shooting at deputy Blaze wrecks lookout tower * NEW * 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. A place for Ian For Katie Larive, of Ashland, the birth of her son Ian was long and difficult, spanning the Labor Day weekend of 1992. But in the end, Katie marveled at her small son. “He was a beautiful, healthy boy, a sweet, beautiful face and golden hair. He smiled constantly. He rarely cried during the first two years of his life, and he smiled pretty much every day.” Mon: Essentially Ashland Terry Skibby’s Treasure Trove Mon: Tales From The Crib And then, they are teenagers Mon: From Denmark Cartoons shatter Danes’ feeling of safety Tues: Off The Vine Evaluating wine is a personal act Weds: Food & History Latvia gives proof of a small world 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 Fri: For Your Health Good joint pain? There’s no such thing Sat: Marketing Today Get familiar with your future customers * NEW * Planning on attending AIFF? Then check out all the movies BEFORE you go by reading what audience members have to say. (click here) AFTER you've seen a movie you can be a critic too! Just add your comments and we will post them for others to read. (click here) AHS Softball Grizzlies cave to Grants Pass Ashland makes it close, but suffers two tough losses Opinion & Editorial — LETTERS TO THE EDITOR — LETTER: at length — OPINION PAGE POLICY Updated Tuesdays: From the Right Side Mike Green Secular is insufficient By reason we can divine our own path through life, gleaning knowledge and wisdom from a variety of experiences (both good and bad) that assist in directing and bringing us ever closer to an understanding that all living creatures are deserving of dignity and respect. This concept, as espoused by many who purport to be secularists, is seemingly benevolent and benign. Unfortunately, it is insufficient as an overall model protocol, doctrine or philosophy. ... CASE IN POINT (OPED) Updated Mondays: — Case In Point : Culture clash plays out badly for some No question, the written word is a glorious thing. To imagine a life without it, without fiction, exposition, even the truncated phraseology of emails and texting is to feel life being leached of its richness. ... — There are no obituaries today — Police click here to see print version BUS STOP Having launched OSF’s 2006 season with her own production of Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale,” Libby Appel now tackles another and very different winter’s tale. It is William Inge’s 1956 gem, “Bus Stop,” that plays in the Bowmer through Oct. 29. In Review | The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Cowboy speaks volumes by saying little A tale of humanity, in perfect balance As that wonderful, and yet again wonderful, quintessential Jewish grandmother, Bubbie, might say, “What’s not to like?” Well, nothing. “Crossing Delancey” is all good. Movies | T.V. | Calendar Stories updated by 6 p.m. Thursday ( Back issues available ) The fifth Annual Ashland Independent Film Festival will feature 82 films Thursday April 6 through April 10 at the Varsity Theatre downtown and this year, for the first time the Festival will hold special film events at the Historic Ashland Armory and ScienceWorks Museum. Using energy, creating art Staci Ohayon has been living and painting in Ashland since she moved from her Israel home last September, taking her teaching sabbatical to be near her son, Alon, who is taking a year off between high school graduation and compulsory military duty at home to work with teens from Ashland’s two synagogues. Grandmothers honored All-day event offers wisdom, community Lifetime achievement Award recipient 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.