Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-13
‘Water Made to Rise’: When three men — played by playwright, actor and director Barrett O’Brein and Oregon Shakespeare actors Rodney Gardiner and Daisuke Tsuji — are trapped in a barroom by rising waters of a never-before-seen flood, they grapple with events that led them to be washed from their homes. O’Brien’s play dramatizes climate change, distilling it into a story about people and a place. Performances are set for 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 24, in the historic Ashland Armory, 208 Oak St., and
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-11
NEW YORK (AP) — Americans were commemorating 9/11 with somber tributes, volunteer projects and a new monument to victims Tuesday, after a year when two attacks demonstrated the enduring threat of terrorism in the nation’s biggest city. Margie Miller was among the thousands of 9/11 victims’ relatives, survivors, rescuers and others who gathered on a misty Tuesday morning at the memorial plaza where the World Trade Center’s twin towers once stood. She came to the site from her home in suburban Bal
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-12
Ashland’s Bellview Grange hosted Susan Noah, Oregon’s State Grange Master, and two of her advisers for a regional workshop on legislative awareness over the weekend. Local grangers want to know how to work with Oregon Grange lobbyists to take Grange policy issues into the state legislature. “It’s been the first time that we’ve done anything like this,” said Noah of the workshop. “It’s been a really good learning situation for all of us at the state level, about what our members want, what they w
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-11
One of the reasons people resist placing their loved ones who have dementia into a facility is that often they’re not impressed by the programs. Even if they feel the care will be appropriate, it’s the level of engagement and stimulation that concerns them. Enter a brand-new program starting in Ashland at the Village at Valley View Memory Care Community ( villagevalleyview.com ; 541-482-0888, 1071 West Jackson Road). To learn about this new approach, I spoke with Jean Garbadon, elder advocate, E
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-13
A 15-unit apartment complex offering much-needed rental space in Ashland proposed for a mostly vacant lot on Siskiyou Boulevard at Park Street seemed like a winner at Tuesday’s Planning Commission meeting, until a dozen neighbors bashed the “dorm style” plan, saying that 60 potential adult tenants would greatly increase traffic and noise, degrading quality of life in their quiet, mostly single-family residential neighborhood. While neighbors lauded the goal of increasing apartments in town, thei
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-12
A Gresham hiker missing on Mt. Hood for nearly weeks was likely attacked and killed by a cougar, the first known fatality in Oregon from a cougar attack. The body of Diana Bober, 55, was discovered Monday on a Mount Hood National Forest trail and a Tuesday autopsy confirmed she died of an apparent animal attack, police said in a press conference this afternoon. The wounds were consistent with a cougar attack, and DNA samples were sent today to the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Foren
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-13
The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union led the battle against “Demon Alcohol” from the 1880s into the 20th Century. The WCTU even used occasions such as Ashland’s summer Chautauqua to bring its message about the dangers of alcohol to family and society. The Chautauqua was a national traveling program of lectures, seminars and entertainment, and Ashland had been selected in 1893 as the location in Southern Oregon. An unusual aspect of the temperance movement’s fight was the creation of the “Broom
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-13
You can often tell, just by looking at a garden (houses too) that someone artistic lives there. Such is the case at 204 Alicia Ave., which is the Ashland Garden Club’s September Garden of the Month. This is the home of Betsy (who asked her last name not be used) and her husband, Chuck. Betsy is a crafts artisan in the costume shop at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. They have lived in the home for eight years. The house remodeling and garden hardscape were a collaborative design effort with Jame
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-11
A Central Point man is wanted for allegedly destroying washing machines at Suds-ur-duds laundromat in Ashland to steal the coins inside. Christopher Lee Grinnell, 33, of the 200 block of West Pine Street was charged with first-degree criminal mischief, second-degree criminal mischief, first-degree theft and third-degree theft in Jackson County Circuit Court. He was scheduled to be arraigned Monday but failed to appear in court. A warrant was issued for his arrest, according to court records. On
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-17
It looks like Ashland’s history of having an outsize presence on the national protest map will get another chapter added next week when locals take part in a rolling fast for three days. The #Hungry4Justice campaign protesting the Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant and asylum-seeking families at the border, and its failure to meet terms of a court order requiring family reunifications, started in Oakland, California, in July, followed by Sacramento and Santa Cruz, California;
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-17
For a superlative musician, Portland blues guitarist Terry Robb has flown under the radar during his long career. Fans may recall guitar slinger from his live shows in the late ‘80s at Jazmin’s (shuttered in ‘90) and the lounge in the Marc Antony Hotel (now Ashland Springs Hotel) in Ashland. “I used to have an electric blues band back then,” he says from his hotel room in Vancouver, British Columbia. “I had a trio and a quartet. Me, bass and drums. We were pretty intense. I’m still pretty intens
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-17
With eye black aplenty, Devvon Gage is simply an intimidating presence as he gazes over opposing offensive linemen and into the backfield before each play. And then there’s the snap. It’s rather fitting that a middle linebacker, wearing the No. 12 and with the last name of Gage provides quite the punch. It’s been that way for going on four years now. You see, Gage has been the middle man on a defense that was one of the best in all of the NAIA last season. And when it comes to racking up tackles
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-17
The southern edge of the Klondike fire, burning only a few miles from Selma, has kept firefighters hopping since flames spotted across the Wild and Scenic Illinois River Corridor Saturday night and quickly became established about five miles up the river road. The blaze has edged farther south, threatening vital communication towers on Eight Dollar Mountain, where a tongue of fire started climbing uphill. Fire managers had hoped to contain the Klondike north of Illinois River Road — a good defen
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-18
Note from Inner Peace editor Sally McKirgan: These two short articles come to you as a pair. One shows the difficult time we are experiencing with the smoke, along with some advice and encouragement, and the other is about the beauty of nature with the challenge of aging, yet, in the end, oneness surmounts all the world’s drama. Coping with the smoke and fires By Allan Weisbard Fires and smoke have made this a very draining summer for many of us. I have developed suggestions to increase our resi
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-19
Ashland Parks and Recreation Commission is $32,000 shy of its goal of $258,000 to build a nature play center at North Mountain Park at 620 North Mountain Ave. This would be the first full interactive nature playground in Ashland, according to the NMP Nature Center Manager Libby VanWyhe. The difference between a nature play center and a playground is the nature play center isn’t made from cheap, brightly colored plastics, but instead it’s made of natural materials that encourage kids to play in n
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-19
When disaster strikes, do you know what you will do to be prepared to thrive and not simply survive? Ashland’s Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) is a community-based program with a mission and core competency of preparing our community to endure disasters through resiliency only attainable by having the proper understanding of disaster basics and how to be prepared before disaster strikes. CERT continues to highlight civic engagement, providing free federally created all-hazards cu
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-19
Gray wolf OR-7 may be quite long in the tooth, but he’s still got what it takes in the den. Federal wolf biologists released new trail-camera footage Tuesday showing that OR-7 and his mate had three pups this spring. This is the fifth consecutive year that Oregon’s celebrity canis lupus had at least one pup. OR-7, more than 9 years old, has now sired 16 known pups. Not bad for a grandpa. “It’s not unprecedented, but it sure is a long run,” said John Stephenson, the Bend-based U.S. Fish and Wildl
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-17
Charles Raymond Caldwell, 45, was arrested after a three-hour stand-off with Ashland police starting at approximately 6:55 a.m. Thursday on Mistletoe Road, according to police reports. Ashland Police Chief Tighe O’Meara said Caldwell was spotted by a police officer entering Ashland from Exit 11 after eluding the California Highway Patrol on Interstate 5. “As I understand it, the report was there were three California Highway Patrol cars in pursuit of him, but I don’t know where it originated or
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-07-16
If you see a stand of scotch broom, pull it out by the roots. Scotch broom is a noxious weed and it burns hot, accelerating a fire. Twenty young men and women pulled the weed on Thursday in the Ashland watershed, reducing fuel load in this important area. They’re interns in Lomakatsi Restoration Project ’s 2018 Ashland Watershed Youth Training and Employment Program. Youth training programs are an important aspect of Lomakatsi’s work throughout the region to restore the environment and help comm
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-07-18
As the heat wave sets in and heroic firefighters are busy battling several dozen wildfires across Southern Oregon, you might ask yourself: How do I get a break from the dreaded heat? Well, the very best way that I know to really beat the heat is to go coastal. I wish I had better news, but it looks like we are in for several more weeks of debilitating heat. The good news: the Southern Oregon and Northern California coast can be 40 degrees cooler than the interior valleys. You might even need a s