Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2017-07-20
Movie review: ‘City of Ghosts’ profiles heroes of resistance A scene from Matthew Heineman's "City of Ghosts." [Our Time Projects] Wednesday Jul 19, 2017 at 2:11 PM Jul 19, 2017 at 2:11 PM Al Alexander More Content now Everyone has their breaking point. For the good people of Raqqa, it was the arrest and torture of 15 children by the soulless regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. That was in 2012 in the midst of the Arab Spring
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2017-07-20
Big country stars descend on The Expo in Central Point Jake Owen, left, Luke Bryan, Keith Urban and Chris Stapleton headline at Country Crossings Music Festival in Central Point. [Photos courtesy of Poppy Advertising Design] Thursday Jul 20, 2017 at 12:01 AM Tran Nguyen for Revels Keith Urban, Luke Bryan, Chris Stapleton, Jake Owen, Lee Brice, Maddie & Tae, Kane Brown and many other country music stars will descend on The Expo in Central Point for the first appearanc
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2017-07-19
When is it time for dementia care? Ellen Waldman Wednesday Jul 19, 2017 at 2:00 AM By Ellen Waldman For the Tidings Should I stay or should I go? In this case, the question refers to the right time to move a loved one with dementia into a facility that can care for them. Almost all families want to keep their person at home as long as possible. They love them and feel they are the ones who can best take care of them. Also, in many cases, the costs of placement are more t
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2017-07-20
Wilderness advocate communes with the West's mystique Robert Leonard Reid [Photo by John Green] Wednesday Jul 19, 2017 at 6:35 PM Jul 19, 2017 at 6:35 PM By Jeffrey Gillespie For the Tidings Robert Leonard Reid is a writer and composer who has combined 19 selected essays in a new work entitled "Because It Is So Beautiful: Unraveling the Mystique of the American West." He will be at Bloomsbury Books in Ashland on Aug. 22 to read from and discuss h
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2017-07-19
Council seeks options to comply with 10-by-20 Wednesday Jul 19, 2017 at 2:00 AM By Julie Akins For the Tidings The Ashland City Council remains interested in the possibility of a solar farm on the Imperatrice Ranch Property as one of the possibilities to move forward and meet the goals of their adopted “10 by 20” program which calls for Ashland to get 10 percent of its power from renewable local energy sources by the year 2020. Council directed staff to con
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2017-07-19
10 things to know for Wednesday Wednesday Jul 19, 2017 at 6:33 AM Jul 19, 2017 at 6:36 AM The Associated Press Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: Click here for more national and international news 1. HOW MANY AMERICANS FEEL ABOUT ‘OBAMACARE’ After months of uncertainty, there is a sense of dread in Trump’s push to repeal the federal health care plan with
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2017-07-20
Five picks for live entertainment 'Spamalot' Thursday Jul 20, 2017 at 12:01 AM 'Monty Python's Spamalot' Like the film, "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," this musical comedy is an irreverent parody of the Arthurian legend. With book by Eric Idle of Monty Python fame and music and lyrics by Idle and John DuPrez, "Spamalot" features a chorus line of dancing divas and knights, flatulent Frenchmen, killer rabbits, the odd knights who say "Ni!" and more. Shows are set for 8
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2017-07-19
Jupiter's stunning Great Red Spot, seen like never before CREDIT: NASA, JPL, Bj�rn J�nsson, Se�n Doran. Friday Jul 14, 2017 at 1:49 PM Sarah Kaplan - The Washington Post Imagine a storm so vast it could swallow the Earth and so powerful that it has swirled nonstop for 350 years. That is Jupiter's Great Red Spot. On Monday, NASA sent its Juno spacecraft skimming just 2,200 miles above the spot's roiling cloud tops. It was the closest any human-built object has come to the
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2017-07-20
Woman sought in Ashland kidnapping case Dahlstrom Monday Jul 10, 2017 at 10:32 AM Jul 10, 2017 at 10:32 AM By Ryan Pfeil For the Tidings ASHLAND — Police are asking for the public's help in finding a woman suspected of kidnapping her toddler daughter on Wednesday. Shelley Sue Dahlstrom, 43, allegedly entered a house in the 1000 block of South Mountain Avenue — where the girl's father lives — sometime overnight and kidnapped t
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2017-07-17
Zinke mum on fate of Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument Protesters show their support for the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument at the Medford BLM office on Sunday. [Daily Tidings / Jamie Lusch] Sunday Jul 16, 2017 at 8:51 PM Jul 16, 2017 at 8:51 PM By Teresa ThomasFor the Tidings Gov. Kate Brown made her debut visit to the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument Sunday before meeting with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to “relay her strong sup
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2017-07-15
Prince's original fan plays Britt The Revolution, Prince's touring and recording band from 1984 to 1987, will perform hits from "Purple Rain," "Around the World in a Day" and "Parade" at Britt Festival in Jacksonville. [Photo by Ron Harris] Saturday Jul 15, 2017 at 8:00 AM Laurie Heuston Revels Drummer Bobby Z. of The Revolution was introduced to Prince in 1976, when the singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist was 18. Z. worked as an errand boy for Owen Husney's man
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2017-07-16
The rise (and fall?) of religious liberty The United States Constitution was made the law of the land on June 21, 1788. | Photo Credits: Adobe Stock photo Saturday Jul 8, 2017 at 6:01 PM Religious liberty in the full sense of that term is a relatively modern idea. And specifically religious liberty may already be past its prime. Daniel Peterson, Deseret News This week, as we celebrate our independence and liberties, it's worth reflecting on one of the fundamental questio
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2017-07-17
Truck drivers will have a new reason to like Talent A pair of truck drivers take a break from the road at the Talent Truck Stop area Tuesday morning. [Mail Tribune / Andy Atkinson] Sunday Jul 16, 2017 at 5:10 PM Jul 16, 2017 at 5:10 PM By Tony Boom For the Tidings The redevelopment of the former Talent Truck Stop site on West Valley View Road off Exit 21 is moving ahead after the recent sale of the 5.2-acre site. Truck-stop operations there cease
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2017-07-18
Ashland's artist-in-residence Pamela Haunschild's "In My Sleeping Bag" was done while she was an artist in residence at Lassen national Park. [Image courtesy of Pamela Haunschild] Tuesday Jul 18, 2017 at 2:00 AM By John Darling For the Tidings When Pam Haunschild retired in 2011 from teaching social science at Stanford, she decided to take up watercolor painting — and now she’s gone on to being an artist in residence at Lassen National Park in 2015 and, com
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2017-07-17
New B&B has old roots A newly refurbished historic Ashland dwelling is now the Redtail Inn bed and breakfast. [Photo by John Darling] Sunday Jul 16, 2017 at 4:31 PM Jul 16, 2017 at 4:31 PM By John Darling For the Tidings What was an old, rundown but historic farmhouse half a block from downtown Ashland has undergone a million-dollar restoration, in which a couple outfitted it with antiques from its birth year of 1890, crammed it with green, s
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2017-07-16
Letter at Length, July 13 Thursday Jul 13, 2017 at 12:01 AM Harrop wrong about TPP In her recent “Another View” column, Froma Harrop demonizes the left and her favorite punching bag, Bernie Sanders, for being against the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal. It saddens me that she touts only the superficial benefits while ignoring the corporate underpinnings of the deal. Lori M. Wallach has been director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch d
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2017-07-19
Police reports, July 17-18 Tuesday Jul 18, 2017 at 7:24 PM Jul 18, 2017 at 7:24 PM Local report Monday, 7:40 a.m. — An abandoned vehicle was towed from the first block of Fourth Street. Monday, 11:55 a.m. — A subject stop at the intersection of Lithia Way and North Second Street led to a citation for violating open container laws and a warrant arrest. Monday, 12:48 p.m. — Police confiscated property at the intersection o
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2017-07-15
Police reports, July 13-14 Friday Jul 14, 2017 at 3:20 PM Jul 14, 2017 at 3:20 PM Local report Thursday, 4:26 a.m. — Police arrested a man on a warrant on the Bear Creek Greenway. Thursday, 7:26 a.m. — Police impounded a vehicle in the 300 block of Sheridan Street. Thursday, 11:32 a.m. — Police arrested a man on a warrant in the 100 block of Will Dodge Way. Thursday, 2:17 p.m. — Police cited and released
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2017-07-13
Near totality A spectacular total eclipse of the sun will be visible, weather permitting, within a roughly 70-mile-wide swath (shown in yellow) of the continental U.S. from Oregon to South Carolina. Outside of this path, the rest of the country will have a deep partial solar eclipse, as noted by the lines showing the percentage of the sun that will be covered by the moon at maximum eclipse. [Michael Zeiler / GreatAmericanEclipse.com] Wednesday Jul 12, 2017 at 8:02 PM Jul
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2017-07-13
A Broadway junkie gets his musical fix John Stadelman plays Man in Chair in Oregon Cabaret Theatre's production of "The Drowsy Chaperone." [Photo by Christopher Briscoe] Wednesday Jul 12, 2017 at 5:48 PM Jul 12, 2017 at 5:48 PM By Jeffrey Gillespie For the Tidings Oregon Cabaret Theatre's "The Drowsy Chaperone" is an interesting musical, a parody piece set almost entirely in the imagination of an aging Broadway junkie, who lives alone in a small