Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2024-06-20
Sign up for the Morning Brief Newsletter . Daily Tidings Daily Tidings Sign up for the Morning Brief Newsletter . facebook twitter A New Bolan Mountain Fire Lookout Cabin in the Siskiyou Mountains of Southern Oregon By Edith M. on June 20, 2024 JACKSON COUNTY, Ore. — The Bolan Mountain Fire Lookout in southern Oregon, that was razed to the ground in the 2020 Slater wildfire, will be rebuilt in a collaboration agreement by the Siskiyou Mountain Club and the Wild Rivers Ranger District. The Histor
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2024-06-18
Oregon State Files Gun Control Measure 114 Brief In Appeal Court Asserting Its Constitutionality Top Stories By Diane Megaw On Jun 18, 2024 After the Oregon Court of Appeal motion by gun owners to dismiss the State of Oregon’s motion to appeal the Harney Court Judgment finding Measure 114 unconstitutional was dismissed- as the appeal was delayed by transcript error corrections , the state has now filed its brief in the main appeal. The state’s brief details six assignments of error and argues th
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2024-06-18
Oregon Wallowing Near the Bottom of Education Rankings Education By Edith M. On Jun 18, 2024 Corvallis High School | Courtesy: Oregon Secretary of State Oregon is lagging well behind most other states in the country in education, according to the latest report released by the Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation. Using data from state and federal sources, the KIDS COUNT report reveals that Oregon is wallowing at the bottom of the ranking at 43 rd out of the 50 states. Child and Teen Suicide
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2024-06-17
Sign up for the Morning Brief Newsletter . Daily Tidings Daily Tidings Sign up for the Morning Brief Newsletter . facebook twitter SOU, OIT, and RCC Students: Happy Graduation Day! By Diane Megaw on June 17, 2024 ASHLAND, Ore. — Graduation Day in Southern Oregon has seen students from Southern Oregon University (SOU), the Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT), and Rogue Community College (RCC) take a big step into the future with the completion of their academic studies. Some may continue on a sc
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2024-06-17
SOU, OIT, and RCC Students: Happy Graduation Day! Education By Diane Megaw On Jun 17, 2024 ASHLAND, Ore. — Graduation Day in Southern Oregon has seen students from Southern Oregon University (SOU), the Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT), and Rogue Community College (RCC) take a big step into the future with the completion of their academic studies. Some may continue on a scholastic path, but most are now stepping out into the working world. SOU Graduation In 98 th Ceremony In Ashland, graduate
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2024-05-28
Sign up for the Morning Brief Newsletter . Daily Tidings Daily Tidings Sign up for the Morning Brief Newsletter . facebook twitter Oregon Birth Rate: One Of The Lowest In The US And Still Declining By Diane Megaw on May 28, 2024 In nature, as new babies are born, people are dying, balancing out the population numbers, but the growth rates of countries are linked with the growth rates of their populations. Newly released 2022 federal data in the National Vital Statistics (NVSS) report reveals tha
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2024-05-27
Talent Gets Over $1.1 Million In Wildfire Resiliency Funding From FEMA News By Diane Megaw On May 27, 2024 Talent, Oregon | Credit: NRCS Oregon JACKSON COUNTY, Ore. — The City of Talent has received two Hazard Mitigation Assistance grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to support local wildfire resiliency efforts according to a joint statement on Friday by Oregon U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden. Rebuilding And Resiliency Following Wildfires In Talent Sen. Merkley dr
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2024-05-27
Hundreds of Trees are Dying in a Douglas “Fir-Mageddon” Environment By Edith M. On May 27, 2024 2012. Pines released by Douglas-fir removal | Photo by: Kristen Chadwick | Photo credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry. ASHLAND, Ore. — While a helicopter lifts hundreds of dead trees from the Siskiyou Mountains in southwestern Oregon, Ashland Fire and Rescue coordinates a project to thin 5,000 acres of dead and dying Douglas firs before the wildfire season begins. Read: He
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2024-05-27
Water Quality In Klamath River Gets Approval From Californian Water Board Environment By Diane Megaw On May 27, 2024 The Upper Klamath River, Oregon | Credit: Bureau of Land Management Oregon and Washington KLAMATH COUNTY, Ore. — A report confirms that the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board has run tests on the water quality levels in the Klamath River. The board’s opinion is that the quality of the river’s water continues to improve amidst ongoing dam deconstruction work. Concerns
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2024-05-27
Sign up for the Morning Brief Newsletter . Daily Tidings Daily Tidings Sign up for the Morning Brief Newsletter . facebook twitter Talent Gets Over $1.1 Million In Wildfire Resiliency Funding From FEMA By Diane Megaw on May 27, 2024 JACKSON COUNTY, Ore. — The City of Talent has received two Hazard Mitigation Assistance grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to support local wildfire resiliency efforts according to a joint statement on Friday by Oregon U.S. Senators Jeff Merkl
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2024-05-27
Sign up for the Morning Brief Newsletter . Daily Tidings Daily Tidings Sign up for the Morning Brief Newsletter . facebook twitter Water Quality In Klamath River Gets Approval From Californian Water Board By Diane Megaw on May 27, 2024 KLAMATH COUNTY, Ore. — A report confirms that the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board has run tests on the water quality levels in the Klamath River. The board’s opinion is that the quality of the river’s water continues to improve amidst ongoing dam
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2024-05-27
Sign up for the Morning Brief Newsletter . Daily Tidings Daily Tidings Sign up for the Morning Brief Newsletter . facebook twitter Hundreds of Trees are Dying in a Douglas “Fir-Mageddon” By Edith M. on May 27, 2024 ASHLAND, Ore. — While a helicopter lifts hundreds of dead trees from the Siskiyou Mountains in southwestern Oregon, Ashland Fire and Rescue coordinates a project to thin 5,000 acres of dead and dying Douglas firs before the wildfire season begins. Read: Helicopter Logging Will Rid Ash
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2024-05-29
Sign up for the Morning Brief Newsletter . Daily Tidings Daily Tidings Sign up for the Morning Brief Newsletter . facebook twitter $100 Million 2020 Wildfire Damages Claim Against PacifiCorp Filed By Oregon Wineries and Vineyards By Diane Megaw on May 29, 2024 Pacificorp’s failure to switch off the power during the devastating 2020 wildfires is proving to be a costly error. The company is now facing lawsuits in the Multnomah County Circuit Court from around 30 wineries and vineyards in the Willa
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2024-05-25
Sign up for the Morning Brief Newsletter . Daily Tidings Daily Tidings Sign up for the Morning Brief Newsletter . facebook twitter Salmon Runs and Fish Native to Oregon Waterways Will Thrive Again Thanks to Federal Funding By Edith M. on May 25, 2024 KLAMATH COUNTY, Ore. — Salmon runs and other fish native to the waterways of rural Oregon will once again thrive thanks to federal funding. Nearly $2 million has been allocated to remove dams and open miles of stream and river waterways that will re
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2024-05-29
Sign up for the Morning Brief Newsletter . Daily Tidings Daily Tidings Sign up for the Morning Brief Newsletter . facebook twitter Psychedelic Magic Mushrooms, aka Psilocybin, Provide Treatment in 27 Oregon Service Centers By Edith M. on May 29, 2024 Magic mushrooms, clinically known as Psilocybin, are a psychedelic used in 27 Oregon clinics to treat severe depression, PTSD, and substance disorders, and this is the month in which the first service center providing the drug in the state was licen
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2024-05-28
Oregon Birth Rate: One Of The Lowest In The US And Still Declining Top Stories By Diane Megaw On May 28, 2024 Last updated May 28, 2024 In nature, as new babies are born, people are dying, balancing out the population numbers, but the growth rates of countries are linked with the growth rates of their populations. Newly released 2022 federal data in the National Vital Statistics (NVSS) report reveals that Oregon has one of the lowest birth rates in the US, but this is having knock-on effects fur
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2024-05-29
Psychedelic Magic Mushrooms, aka Psilocybin, Provide Treatment in 27 Oregon Service Centers News By Edith M. On May 29, 2024 Fruit bodies of the psychedelic mushroom Psilocybe aztecorum | Credit: Alan Rockefeller Magic mushrooms, clinically known as Psilocybin, are a psychedelic used in 27 Oregon clinics to treat severe depression, PTSD, and substance disorders, and this is the month in which the first service center providing the drug in the state was licensed a year ago. Oregon voters approved
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2024-05-25
Salmon Runs and Fish Native to Oregon Waterways Will Thrive Again Thanks to Federal Funding Environment By Edith M. On May 25, 2024 KLAMATH COUNTY, Ore. — Salmon runs and other fish native to the waterways of rural Oregon will once again thrive thanks to federal funding. Nearly $2 million has been allocated to remove dams and open miles of stream and river waterways that will restore fish habitat, migration, irrigation, and flood control. Pomeroy Dam Removal and Wallowa County Fish Habitat Resto
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2024-05-10
Sign up for the Morning Brief Newsletter . Daily Tidings Daily Tidings Sign up for the Morning Brief Newsletter . facebook twitter Pro-Palestinian University of Oregon Students are Given Two Days to Dismantle Campus Encampment By Edith M. on May 10, 2024 EUGENE, Ore. — Amid rising tensions, pro-Palestine protestors at the University of Oregon (UO) have been given two days in which to agree to a time and date to stop camping overnight and to dismantle their campus encampment. The students, member
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2024-05-07
Sign up for the Morning Brief Newsletter . Daily Tidings Daily Tidings Sign up for the Morning Brief Newsletter . facebook twitter New FAA Investigation Into Boeing 787 Maintenance: Falsified Records Reported By Diane Megaw on May 7, 2024 On Monday the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said a new investigation into potential manufacturing quality lapse on Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner was opened following an admission from Boeing that inspection records on work at the wing-to-body join were report