Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-07-05
Ashland had gone without a notable Fourth of July celebration for several years when the small town pulled out all the stops in 1916. The day began with the Queen Lithia pageant. This huge parade included four bands, scores of floats, marching groups from the military and civic organizations, riding clubs and cowboys. The Medford Riding Club participants received high honors for their pioneer uniforms. It was estimated that 20,000 people attended the parade from all parts of the Valley. They arr
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-07-05
The RogueDCI ( Rogue Drum Corps International ) performance Thursday night in Ashland will feature performances by four world-class drum and bugle corps from across the West: the Santa Clara Vanguard from Santa Clara, California ; the Blue Knights of Denver, Colorado; The Academy from Tempe, Arizona; and the Troopers from Casper, Wyoming. Gates open at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 8 p.m. Thursday, July 5, at Raider Stadium on the Southern Oregon University campus . General admission tickets ($2
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-07-04
Wednesday, Feb. 18 Hands-All-Around Quilters: Visitors can work on individual projects or sew quilts for charity from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesdays at Wesley Hall at First United Methodist Church, 175 N. Main St., Ashland. Call 541-732-0141. Classic Comedy: Claudette Colbert and Joel McCrea star in the 1942 film "The Palm Beach Story," not rated, from 2 to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 18, at the Talent library, 101 Home St. Call 541-535-4163 or see www.jcls.org. Learn to Ice Skate: Drop-in ice skating
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-07-04
Starting Friday, Ashlanders will be given the opportunity during an event-packed Climate Week — which is actually 10 days long — to immerse themselves in the many ways they can shrink their own carbon footprint and persuade their political leaders to do the same. Climate Week, sponsored by Geos Institute and Rogue Climate, will inundate Ashland with classes, films, speeches and games, concluding with the Ashland Climate Challenge on Sunday, Nov. 15. The challenge is just that, a ch
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-07-04
I am a political junkie, one of those Americans who obsessively watch the unfolding drama of world events and opinion about those events. It's a nice substitute for sports: it's real. Sports events take too long for me; I'm bored and gone before I know who won. Happily, with political sport, you can turn it off any time something more interesting comes into view and pick it up again later. It repeats and repeats and repeats, regurgitating out of your TV like a badly digested dinner. So I've had
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-07-04
The Grizzlies’ goal was to put their previous performance behind them and they wasted no time doing so. The Ashland High girls basketball team raced out to an 18-0 lead and cruised to a 45-31 victory over Hidden Valley on Tuesday in a nonconference game at Mountain Avenue Gym. Four days after stumbling their way through a frustrating five-point loss to North Medford, the Grizzlies took control early and never let up to improve to 2-1 on the young season. “We did a lot better execut
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-07-04
It might be true that the fastest path out of homelessness is to find yourself diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, as my friend Greg’s recent experience is teaching us. Greg is a lot like many people I’ve known who are homeless; he’d been stuck there for years. He picked up odd jobs here and there whenever he could, but nothing that ever amounted to enough to get back on his feet. The jobs that he could get often paid less than minimum wage and involved physical labor. Right arou
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-07-04
Using no-interest loans, volunteer labor and sweat equity from owners, Habitat for Humanity has, until now, bought land and built homes from the ground up. That’s changed. Now they’re also doing “critical home repair” for low-income owners who could never afford it.  This relieves blight, raises neighborhood morale and enables them to stay in their homes, says Denise James, executive director of HFH Rogue Valley.  The program is perfect for Ashland, where bu
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-07-04
As a menorah was lit on the downtown Ashland Plaza Sunday night, Umpqua Community College mass shooting survivor Evan Burns asked the assembled crowd to honor the fallen by overcoming fear and helping others. "You have that capability to be that light in the darkness," Burns said. Burns, who is Jewish and studies with Rabbi Avi Zwiebel in Ashland, said he recited a traditional Jewish prayer to himself as he hunkered down with other students on the Roseburg campus on Oct. 1. He said the prayer he
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-07-04
A woman and her grandson lost their home in a house fire two days before Christmas. The fire was reported at around 4:45 p.m. Tuesday in a mobile home park on Corral Lane, according to dispatch logs. The park is located between Talent and Ashland. Capt. Vince Lockett of Jackson County Fire District No. 5 said the home's owner was underneath the bathroom sink filling a void with some spray foam when a flash from an unknown source ignited and pushed flames up the wall. The thin paneling allowed th
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-07-04
The Scholastic Book Fair will offer a wide range of books at discounted prices Wednesday, Feb. 25, through Tuesday, March 3, at the Ashland Middle School library. Every book up for sale will have been reviewed and approved by reading specialists and offered at a more affordable cost. According to AMS, a book that could sell for $16.95 in hardcover form may be available at the book fair in paperback form for $3.95. Proceeds from the fair, which will be open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day, helps s
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-07-03
Jasper Weatherby saw a phone number with a 408 area code and immediately knew good news was on the way. He didn’t need to think very long about where it was coming from. The team that Weatherby grew up watching from afar in Ashland, the San Jose Sharks, had just used the 102nd overall pick in last weekend’s NHL Draft to select the 20-year-old forward who spent most of his life in the Rogue Valley before moving away to play junior hockey. “It was awesome,” Weatherby said of first getting word the
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-07-02
BOSTON — When Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., quickly tweeted: “This is the fight of our lives.” She’s right. But how will the fight be defined and how it can be won? With Republicans in control of the Senate, the odds favor anyone President Trump picks to fill Kennedy’s seat. But as the mass mobilization to preserve the Affordable Care Act demonstrated, progressives can win battles in the Senate if Democrats hold together and if a
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-07-04
Known as “Mr. Raider,” Stan Smith is being remembered as a noted valley restaurateur and indefatigable booster and fundraiser for Southern Oregon University teams. He died Tuesday at 91. The tall, irascible, tireless Smith was known and loved by Raider football players and coaches stretching back to 1946 when, as a player, he helped create the only undefeated SOU team ever, notes Coach Craig Howard. As his health allowed, Smith attended nearly all tailgate parties, practices and ga
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-07-02
“When you travel overseas, you can really feel the influence of the West Coast on other countries,” Megan Carlisle observed. “Seattle was in the vanguard back in the ‘90s; Portland in the 2000s. But we were looking for a place on the front edge of culture.” And so, in 2015, Megan and her partner decided to join her parents who had recently moved to Ashland. “We sensed that Ashland was gaining notoriety, and that people were flocking here.” A short time after arriving, Megan found her position as
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-07-03
Fire engines and parades go together like peanut butter and jelly. When that big red rig rides by sounding sirens and flashing lights, the crowds cheer! The 2018 Ashland parade will have four (count’em, 4) Rogue Valley fire trucks dating from 1926 through 2015, a lineup reflecting a heritage of firefighters’ courage and a community’s sense of history. A highlight of the 2018 Ashland 4th of July parade will be the city’s 1946 1-½ ton Ford fire truck now held by the Southern Oregon Historical Soci
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-07-02
“Elevation,” a lovely depiction of three soaring songbirds on a lacy, welded background, was installed Thursday at an entry to the Ashland watershed above the swimming reservoir. Created by Cheryl Garcia of Jacksonville , the sturdy steel artwork sits at the foot of Bandersnatch Trail , up a dirt road above Glenview Street. Nearby are companion pieces, the Pacific Fisher by Jeremy Criswell and “Water Is Life” by Karen Rycheck . The three birds could be swallows or bluebirds — and the filagree de
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-07-02
Good work A couple weeks ago I was hiking up the Bandersnatch trail in the Ashland Watershed and unexpectedly came across a prescribed burn. I was critiquing the effects of the burn to myself as I walked along when I encountered a gentleman hiking in the opposite direction who asked me what I thought about it. I told him: “Looks great!” Large trees have a low enough scorch height to easily survive. Small trees, dead and down fuels and brush are burned — part of the rejuvenation that fire brings
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-07-04
Tuesday, 1:26 a.m. — A 26-year-old man was arrested on a charge of DUII-alcohol in the area of North Main Street and Van Ness Avenue. He was cited and released. Tuesday, 3:18 a.m. — A 20-year-old man was arrested on charges of second-degree trespassing, reckless driving and carrying a concealed weapon in the first block of North Main Street. He was lodged at Jackson County Jail. Tuesday, 10:39 a.m. — Police responded to two reports of suspicious notes placed on residential d
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-07-01
A lot of history happened in Ashland’s Railroad District and every Friday morning at 10, history buff and archival photo collector Terry Skibby stands ready to lead you on a fascinating 90-minute tour of it. Native Ashlander Skibby, who was born in the town’s first hospital (where Stevenson Union now stands) launches his talk at the Applegate Trail marker, explaining how brothers Jesse and Lindsay Applegate in 1846 blazed the Applegate Trail, a cutoff from the Oregon Trail in Idaho. They wanted