Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)

New state representative Marsh speaks Saturday in Ashland | Daily Tidings

Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback) · snapshot 2018-05-21

Newly elected — and now sworn-in — State House Dist. 5 Rep. Pam Marsh speaks Saturday, Jan. 14, at a meeting of the American Association of University Women (AAUW). The meeting, which starts with a social time at 9:30 a.m. before the program program commences at 10 in the Diversion Room of Stevenson Union on the Southern Oregon University Ashland campus, is open to the public. AAUW has asked Marsh to discuss legislative priorities for 2017, particularly equal pay. The audience will

Our View: Find a candidate | Daily Tidings

Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback) · snapshot 2018-05-21

The contest to replace the late state Sen. Alan Bates is set — and that leaves a Democrat running unopposed in House District 5, unless Jackson County Republicans can recruit a candidate by next Monday, when they have scheduled a meeting to pick a nominee. We hope they succeed, for the sake of a healthy political debate. Alan DeBoer, local businessman and former mayor of Ashland, will face Tonia Moro, a Medford attorney, on Nov. 8 for the Senate District 3 seat left vacant by Bates' sudde

Recall election bill totals $24.5K | Daily Tidings

Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback) · snapshot 2018-05-21

The total cost of a special election in Ashland in March comes out to $24,581.76, Jackson County Elections office announced in a press release Thursday. More than 5,800 ballots were cast in a mail-in recall election of three Ashland Parks and Recreation Commissioners, Rick Landt, Mike Gardiner and Jim Lewis. The recall efforts stemmed from a protest of the decision to reorganize the city’s Senior Program and lay off the Senior Center manager of 10 years, Chris Dodson. The election failed.

Brits try to stop Trump | Daily Tidings

Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback) · snapshot 2018-05-21

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City to buy Hardesty land for $1.2M | Daily Tidings

Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback) · snapshot 2018-05-17

Plan to build wetlands to cool wastewater from treatment plant next door The Ashland City Council voted Tuesday night to authorize a $1.2 million real estate transaction to acquire the 21-acre land adjacent to its wastewater treatment plant for a number of projects, including construction of a wetlands for wastewater cooling. “(The land) addresses issues and challenges for various departments,” Councilor Rich Rosenthal said. “We are controlling our destiny with this purchase.” The council unanim

Gomez, Golden to face off for Senate; Blum Atkinson, Wallan vie for House | Daily Tidings

Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback) · snapshot 2018-05-17

Republican Jessica Gomez and Democrat Jeff Golden are the apparent winners in the Senate District 3 primary Tuesday night and will face off in the November general election. “I’m excited, I’m overjoyed,” said Gomez, a political newcomer. According to Jackson County Elections, Gomez had 53.65 percent of the vote with 45.94 percent going to opponent Curt Ankerberg, whose campaign was overtaken by issues about his temperament and tax fraud problems as well as his sharply worded attacks against his

‘Lives’ tries to recalibrate senior stereotypes | Daily Tidings

Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback) · snapshot 2018-05-17

“Lives Well Lived” is a nicely assembled montage of interviews of oldsters, aged 75 and beyond, as well as a valentine to director Sky Bergman’s 103-year-old grandmother, resident of the Italian Bronx, who is still able to embrace life, such as it is, with an engaging vigor. In truth, “Lives” holds out a promise that with each interview these men and women, whose back stories are very different, will reveal a nugget or two about how to live a rich and fulfilling life. The subtitle of the film is

Ashland parks commission may acquire Pioneer Hall | Daily Tidings

Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback) · snapshot 2018-05-17

The Ashland Parks and Recreation Commission is considering acquiring Pioneer Hall from the city, perhaps for use a community hall. Pioneer Hall, a log cabin built in 1921 on Winburn Way across from Lithia Park and added on to through the years, has served as one of the locations for a winter homeless shelter for five years. A study conducted last year found the hall vulnerable to structural damage if a lot of stress was put on it, such as an ice storm or heavy snow, which would be unsafe for any

Ordinance changes proposed to reduce wildfire threats | Daily Tidings

Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback) · snapshot 2018-05-16

Ashland is considering updating an ordinance to reduce wildfire threats within the city by expanding the city’s wildfire lands boundary, adopting new land use amendments for fire prevention and establishing a prohibited flammable plant list. “We are looking for ways to reduce the chance of wildfire in the city,” Ashland Forest Division Chief Chris Chambers said. The proposed amendments, presented during a City Council study session Monday night, list a number of approaches that would regulate la

Another cougar sighting reported near downtown | Daily Tidings

Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback) · snapshot 2018-05-16

A cougar sighting was called in to the Ashland Police Department at 1:30 in the morning Monday. It was seen around Iowa and Idaho streets, just a quarter of a mile above the boulevard, but no harm was done. The sighting follows posting of a video of a formidable feline, aka mountain lion, catamount or puma, on March 25 less than a quarter-mile to the west, in another heavily populated residential neighborhood a couple blocks off East Main Street. It (or they) is likely a juvenile male, as they a

Fundraiser today benefits wild rivers | Daily Tidings

Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback) · snapshot 2018-05-16

Need an excuse to drink beer? How about buying beer to support conservation of local rivers, all the while being entered into a river-friendly raffle? Gil’s in Ashland is throwing its second-annual “High Water Party” today, May 16, starting at 4 p.m. The event, sponsored by Ninkasi Brewing, is a “pint for a cause” event, according to bartender and organizer Steve Simpson. For every pint of Ninkasi beer sold, the company donates $1 to the cause. Funds raised at the event will be donated to nonpro

Letters to the Editor, May 16 | Daily Tidings

Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback) · snapshot 2018-05-16

Burns are outrageous I can hardly express how outraged I am at the city’s “controlled burns” on Sunday. The smoke in my neighborhood was so bad I coughed and wheezed most of the night. I’m elderly and on a fixed income and can’t afford to buy a filter unit for the house. What do you expect me to do. Move? I’m so tired of you playing with our lives. When we bend over backwards to try and clean the air, you are polluting it! And I pay for it. Your organization keeps getting bigger and bigger. J. A

As It Was: Riddle learns a lesson about venison | Daily Tidings

Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback) · snapshot 2018-05-17

Riddle, a small town in Douglas County, was once an important railway stop on the Siskiyou line of the Southern Pacific. Today Riddle is known for its old nickel mines, lumber mills and an Old West spirit. In 1913, with a long hunting season and high limits on bagging, people willingly donated a buck for a fall barbecue. It was hard work quartering, seasoning and cooking the deer on iron rods over hot coals. In 1916, someone suggested a barbecue cook from Eugene famous for roasting meat in a cov