Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-10
I am convinced that fall is the best season. This year fall is heaven sent. Maybe it is the contrast with the hot, dry, smoky summer. Perhaps you are feeling like I am and the sad state of our national affairs has you dispirited. Our country is going in the wrong direction on how we treat one another and the environment. Basic human rights we thought were a given are slipping away. Then there’s the state of our natural world. A new climate change report paints a horribly dire picture. I wish it
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-10
I am convinced that fall is the best season. This year fall is heaven sent. Maybe it is the contrast with the hot, dry, smoky summer. Perhaps you are feeling like I am and the sad state of our national affairs has you dispirited. Our country is going in the wrong direction on how we treat one another and the environment. Basic human rights we thought were a given are slipping away. Then there’s the state of our natural world. A new climate change report paints a horribly dire picture. I wish it
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-10
If you were seated at an outside table at downtown Starbucks on Tuesday morning, you had an eyeful of trucks, wooden frames, 30-foot lengths of thick-walled aluminum tubing and a whole lot of fencing. Gordon Huether ’s “Velocity” is being installed this week along the corridor between Starbucks and Earthly Goods, the walkway between Main Street and the parking and theater plaza above. “Velocity” is Ashland’s latest public art installation and it will be fantastic in scale and playful to see, a s
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-11
Janelle Wilson, who has served since 2005 in various Student Life positions at Southern Oregon University, has been appointed by Gov. Kate Brown to serve on the university’s Board of Trustees. Wilson succeeds Joanna Steinman as the university’s non-faculty staff representative on the 15-member board. Her two-year appointment is a voting position. “I am honored to continue my service to SOU as a trustee of university’s governing board,” Wilson said. “I look forward to supporting the strategies an
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-10
The choice for Jackson County commissioner, Position 1, comes down to experience and preparation. Commissioner Rick Dyer, a Republican, has served half of his one term as chairman of the three-member Board of Commissioners, taking over the post after former Commissioner Doug Breidenthal was removed as chairman when he became the subject of an ethics investigation. A businessman, Dyer was elected to two terms on the Rogue Valley Transportation District board before seeking the county position. He
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-10
A talk on birding in the Klamath Basin is set for 6:30-8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11, at the Ashland Outdoor Store at 37 North Third St. Shannon Rio, president of the board of Klamath Bird Observatory , which is based in Ashland, will show photographs and talk about the history of the wildlife refuge established in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt. The Lower Klamath Lake part of the refuge was the first refuge protected specifically for migratory birds. He will also discuss the Federal Duck Stamp
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-20
The rolling, nature-rich, 876-acre, city-owned Imperatrice property in the foothills across the freeway from Ashland have long been eyed as a prime spot for an energy-producing solar farm — but as the City Council studied it Monday, they got an earful from environmentalists: It’s prime habitat for a rare sparrow and two struggling species of wild plants, so maybe put your array somewhere else, they suggested. Acquired by the city in 1996 as a receiving site for effluent from the city wastewater
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-20
Jumping off at the notion that Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso are the same age and meet in 1904 in a bar in Paris, comedian, film star and playwright Steve Martin presents an imaginative and funny account of what the brilliant scientist and celebrated painter discuss on the fateful evening. “It’s a fast, fun and furious story,” says Valerie Rachelle, artistic director at Oregon Cabaret Theatre. Martin’s 1993 absurdist comedy “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” pitches the men together just before Ei
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-20
For those insisting that Republican senators take Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh seriously, one aspect of the conversation is particularly infuriating: the notion that the timeline established by the GOP for completing this process is quasi-sacred. Virtually everyone commenting on Kavanaugh’s nomination comes to it with a point of view; I should acknowledge I’m no exception. I oppose his confirmation because he would push the Supreme Court far to the right of w
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-20
Ashland Independent Film Festival screens films, shorts and documentaries for five days each April and showcases world films in October, and it now seeks to establish a more year-round presence with its first Best of the Fests showing of the most popular films viewers say they want more of. Best of the Fests starts Friday and runs through Sunday, Sept. 21-23, with the Oregon premiere of “Young Men and Fire,” a feature-length documentary focusing on three firefighters from the Grayback Firefighti
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-21
It’s no secret that Ashland is low on buildable space and affordable housing for the workforce. Seeking to resolve this, the City Council Tuesday heard the public’s thoughts on a plan for infill on the “Transit Triangle” formed by Ashland Street, Tolman Creek Road and Siskiyou Boulevard. Not everyone was happy about it. Developers have been building too many big units over the past decade and need to be “incentivized” to think small, hopefully with multi-story buildings that have commercial spac
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-22
ZIGZAG — Government agents have pulled the plug on the search that began last week for the cougar that killed a 55-year-old hiker, as government agents believe the adult female cougar they shot and killed Friday is the right one. Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife officials announced the search's end in a news release today. The animal was killed Friday, Sept. 14 after it walked in front of a remote camera that had been installed a few feet from where Diana Bober's backpack was found, located
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-20
We all lost a friend last week. Typically, Dolores Marx passed away unobtrusively. If you knew Dolores personally, you will know what we’re missing. If you knew about the multiple Yorkshire dogs she took in and raised (including one who was born without front legs, which Dolores asked for), you know that from a dog’s eye view there will never be another like Dolores. We submit a small appreciation to those of you who may have missed a class act, as Dolores wanted, and for those of us who were lu
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-20
Many early-day logging companies around the world used a curious looking piece of equipment called a “Walking Dudley,” described as a power car on rails. The machine was said to have been invented by longtime-logger Sol Simpson of Washington state. In some areas it was used to pull itself, or “walk,” up an incline or down hills by means of a big cable wrapped several times around a large wheel that was powered by a steam engine. In the late 1890s, Siskiyou and Klamath County loggers along the Kl
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-21
There were already plenty of reasons not to build a solar farm on city property across the freeway, most of them economic. So it might come as a surprise that, even in the face of yet another reason not to build — this one environmental — the City Council voted to invite proposals from private companies interested in constructing a solar project there. But the detailed, market-based results of that Request for Proposals could unplug the project once and for all, which might be for the best. The
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-30
Local health officials said they support a new bill by U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden that would allow Southern Oregonians to have their hotel stays covered when they flee wildfire smoke. Wyden explained the details of his proposed Clean Air Refugee Assistance Act during a press conference Thursday at the Jackson County Health and Human Services building in Medford. “What we’re seeing in Oregon and the West is what amounts to clean air refugees when we have these unhealthy days,” Wyden said. His act would
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-30
City staff, officials and residents grappled Monday with questions raised by proposed amendments to the city’s wildfire mitigation ordinance, ranging from whether a prohibited plant list would strip the city of its native conifers to whether homeowners wishing to expand could afford to comply with the new rules. The two-hour forum in the Council Chambers was called to provide more information to city councilors and the public before the council votes on the proposed amendments to the existing wi
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-04
ASHLAND — For years, bombing down trails in the Ashland Watershed made mountain biker Marcus McNeil a threat to himself and others. McNeil had to keep his bike under enough control that he didn’t hit a tree, wipe out or send an unsuspecting hiker scurrying for cover if they met blindly around a corner. Or worse. “You really had to be careful,” says McNeil, of Ashland. “Hitting somebody on a bike is one of the worse things that can happen.” Now hikers and mountain bikers have trails of their own,
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-02
Ashland has character, a vibrant history and provides a high quality of life for its residents. It’s clean and quirky, filled with a community of friendly, educated people who care about each other, their neighbors and the world at large. But, with roughly 20,000 residents, Ashland is reaching its capacity. And, according to city Community Development Director Bill Molnar, Ashland is missing middle-income housing that is comparatively more affordable — such as townhouses, garden apartments and c
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-02
In 1925, Helen Keller touched the Lions International Convention audience with these words: “Will you not help me hasten the day when there shall be no preventable blindness, no little deaf, blind child untaught, no blind man or woman unaided? I appeal to you Lions, you who have sight, your hearing, you who are strong and brave and kind. Will you not constitute yourselves Knights of the Blind in this crusade against darkness?” As Lions, we made a promise, and we’ve kept it for almost 100 years.