Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-29
With a contemplative beginning and a jubilant ending, the Rogue Valley Symphony’s third Masterworks concert of the season promises to be a satisfying holiday musical experience, says conductor Martin Majkut. The program opens with Raymond Horton’s “Make Gentle the Life of this World,” in commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy. The approximately 13-minute work uses a recording of a speech Kennedy made the night King was assassinated. Horton’s musi
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-28
Though the wildfire tragedies in Paradise and Redding have shocked us and we are saddened by all that’s taken place, we need to learn from their loss. New residents may not know that we lost 11 homes in less than an hour in the 2010 Oak Knoll Fire and just a year prior we evacuated a large section of town during the Siskiyou Fire. Ashland is vulnerable and, though Ashland Fire & Rescue is doing our best to lower wildfire risk, you can do the most important things to be ready to evacuate an
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-29
Sometimes small events relate to monumental issues. Last summer, while hiking a lonely trail along a Southern Oregon lake, I rounded a sharp bend and was surprised to encounter two boys coming toward me with fishing rods across their shoulders, the larger of them carrying a tackle box. I could see that they were brothers, about 10 and 12 years old, and my surprise was the result of the fact that they were the first African American anglers I’d ever seen in a half-century of fishing Oregon&
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-28
Saudi Arabia Letting Saudi Arabia get away with murder is not putting America First, as the president claims. It is exactly the opposite, making us dependent on a foreign power because they buy weapons from us and provide oil. True strength comes from producing our own products within our borders and selling the surplus to the world. Maintaining a co-dependent relationship with a murderous dictator is amoral and weak at best, maybe even masochistic. As of last year, just 9 percent of our petrole
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-29
For Medford residents, the 2006 death of former President Gerald Ford may have rekindled memories of his May 1976 visit ahead of the Oregon primaries. His brief stay was the first time a sitting president had appeared in Jackson County since Theodore Roosevelt had addressed a crowd of Ashlanders from his railcar in May 1903. At the Medford airport, about 300 people greeted President Ford. He was soon whisked away for a tour of the Medford Corporation’s lumber plant, where he chatted with m
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-30
Ashland-based MaraNatha, one of the nation's largest natural nut butter manufacturers, is changing hands again. Hain Celestial, a natural and organic food and personal care products company based in Melville, N.Y., announced the acquisition last week. MaraNatha began as a mom and pop operation in Ashland in 1982. Six years later nSpired Natural Foods, headquartered in California, purchased the company. The plant currently employs 40 workers, and Mary Celeste Anthes, vice president for investor r
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-28
City officials are updating plans for evacuating residents should that become necessary in a disaster such as the wildfire that leveled Paradise, California. Ashland is already better prepared than Paradise was, given multiple routes out of town — and the controversial “road diet” on North Main Street will not impede an orderly evacuation. City Administrator Kelly Madding, Ashland Fire & Rescue Chief Mike D’Orazi, Police Chief Tighe O’Meara and Public Works Director
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-29
The season of giving is upon us, and there will be many voices prompting you to share with the less fortunate. The requests are sincere and the needs are real, and the season — the time between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day that encompasses Hanukkah and Christmas — puts everyone in a giving mood, so agencies that serve the poor and low-income residents of our communities rely on that holiday spirit to fill their shelves with food and their bank accounts with cash. Perhaps bec
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-28
Wood carries a memory — of a landscape, the climate, the forest that nurtures and feeds its growth. The hands that shape that wood, those who craft fine woodworking seek its story, the essential form of that wood and find their own meaning in the process. With hands strong and callused, nails often broken and fingers stained, each woodworker discovers how to express the wood they shape. The beautiful art pieces created by the hands of skilled woodworkers were on display at the 39th annual Siskiy
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-28
Everyone’s favorite orphan is coming to Camelot Theatre in an updated, somewhat darker adaptation of the well-loved musical “Oliver!” Inspired by Charles Dickens’ classic novel “Oliver Twist,” director Shawn Ramagos opted for a heavier approach to Lionel Bart’s 1963 award-winning musical adventure set in the slums of Victorian England. The seedier side of London provides the backdrop in his interpretation, he says. Ramagos says “Oliver!” is u
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-28
Though the wildfire tragedies in Paradise and Redding have shocked us and we are saddened by all that’s taken place, we need to learn from their loss. New residents may not know that we lost 11 homes in less than an hour in the 2010 Oak Knoll Fire and just a year prior we evacuated a large section of town during the Siskiyou Fire. Ashland is vulnerable and, though Ashland Fire & Rescue is doing our best to lower wildfire risk, you can do the most important things to be ready to evacuate an
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-28
Permanent vision loss ( amblyopia ) may occur in children who are not diagnosed and treated for the condition before age 6. Being screened, getting proper treatment and eyewear will prevent this vision loss. Ashland Lions Club, in partnership with Oregon Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation (OLSHF; www.olshf.org ), conducts annual vision screening of thousands of Rogue Valley elementary school children. In 2018 the Ashland Lions Club and OLSHF performed 4,106 vision screenings. Of those screened, 38
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-27
Biologist Scot Loring was scouring federal land near Soda Mountain for rare plants last spring when he stumbled upon a mushroom unlike any other. “It didn’t look like anything I recognized,” Loring said. Nor had any mycologist who had ever published a paper and conducted DNA tests on fungi, meaning Loring’s mushroom is a new species unto itself — a true new fungus among us. “It’s not been documented anywhere,” Loring said of his discovery. “This was the first.” The discovery was announced last w
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-27
Peace Flame honored In reference to Jim Wolf-Pizor’s Nov. 21 letter, “Peace Flame mocked,” the opposite of what he says actually occurred. The ceremony at the World Peace Flame Monument, the Thalden Pavilion, on Nov. 11, the 100th anniversary Armistice Day, was the Rogue Valley Chapter 156 Veterans for Peace honoring 54 Returned Peace Corps Volunteers. This honoring of national service through peace was organized by the Ashland Culture of Peace Commission and inspired by songs from the Rogue Val
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-28
After being missing in action for a year, Ashland’s shower truck is back, providing free showers, shampoo, razors and towels for the homeless in two locations each week. The old shower trailer was destroyed in a propane explosion, which caused burns to Leigh Madsen, executive director of Ashland Community Resource Center . The new one is on loan, at no cost, from Grayback Forestry , while awaiting delivery of a $45,000 shower trailer that is being outfitted in Eugene and should arrive by t
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-28
Ashland residents can expect some water discoloration in the next few days. The discoloration is harmless, city officials say, but if you are experiencing discolored water, avoid doing any laundry. It could stain clothes. It’s caused by routine maintenance on the water distribution system which includes flushing at various fire hydrants around town to allow a greater than normal volume of water to flow through the network of underground pipes. The discoloration is mostly seen in large amou
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-28
Max’s Mission, a local nonprofit that battles opioid-overdose deaths, will give away free naloxone, a medication used to reverse opioid overdoses, from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Medford library, 205 S. Central Ave. The antidote can quickly reverse the effects of an overdose from heroin and prescription painkillers such as OxyContin and Percocet. Anyone who uses opiates, or has a friend or family member using such drugs, is encouraged to attend. Max’s Mission will offer training on how t
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-26
The road may not rise up to meet you at O’Shea’s Irish Pub, but the Guinness is creamy and very drinkable, and the corned beef on pumpernickel is designed to make your taste buds do an Irish jig for joy. Ashland’s newest restaurant and pub opened about a month ago at 14 Calle Guanajuato, the creekside pedestrian walkway near the Ashland Plaza. Owners are Tim Hulbert and Victoria McBerty of Grants Pass. Chef Michael Leniham, 24, is in charge of the kitchen. But he’s just as much at home behind th
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-26
The road may not rise up to meet you at O’Shea’s Irish Pub, but the Guinness is creamy and very drinkable, and the corned beef on pumpernickel is designed to make your taste buds do an Irish jig for joy. Ashland’s newest restaurant and pub opened about a month ago at 14 Calle Guanajuato, the creekside pedestrian walkway near the Ashland Plaza. Owners are Tim Hulbert and Victoria McBerty of Grants Pass. Chef Michael Leniham, 24, is in charge of the kitchen. But he’s just as much at home behind th
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-11-27
SALEM — Oregonians are buying more legal pot than expected. That means they are also poised to pay more taxes on it — about $12.5 million more in the current budget than state economists projected several months ago. The average price of a gram of cannabis on the retail market has dropped from about $10 in late 2016 to just above $4 in mid-2018, according to state figures. But tax collections continue to grow. Altogether, Oregon consumers are projected to pay $176 million in state marijuana taxe