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Ashland Fire & Rescue promotes five firefighters
Ashland Fire & Rescue recently held badge-pinning ceremonies for current firefighters on two shifts who were promoted into new positions within the department.
March 31, 2022
Ashland Fire & Rescue recently held badge-pinning ceremonies for current firefighters on two shifts who were promoted into new positions within the department.
Woods: “Why care? Because there’s never been an authoritarian government that had potential for freedom. Democracy may be imperfect, but without democracy, there’s no possibility of freedom.”
Rothschild: “Neither media rhetoric nor my belief in nonviolence constitutes a basis for actionable judgment. Objectively, persons are criminals only if they violate accepted legal prohibitions.”
City department heads are due to submit plans to cut their department’s budget in the next fiscal year to Ashland City Manager Joe Lessard by April 15, and restrictions on nonessential travel and filling vacant positions are effective April 1, Lessard says in a memo sent late Wednesday to department directors, city councilors and Parks & Recreation Commission commissioners.
Hatton: “The greatest challenge for Western traditions and Western minds is moving from a concept of god as a separate deity outside of ourselves to the concept that we humans, the animals and the physical universe are all created by god becoming its creation.”
Commissioner Landt: The Ashland City Council made a mistake by overruling the Parks & Recreation Commission’s decision to increase fees on the Lithia Artisans Market for the first time since 2017.
It took two extra years, but the doors to the extensively remodeled Osher Lifelong Learning Institute complex in the Campbell Center on the Southern Oregon University campus swung open to students for classes on Monday, March 28.
Southern Oregon University faculty and administration negotiators have reached a tentative agreement on terms that, according to a union statement, “effectively presents a potential contract,” averting a vote on whether to strike that would have taken place in the next month had an agreement not been reached.
The last two years have been a journey rife with conflict and hardship. Ashland artist Betty LaDuke’s newest exhibit reflects those themes and, threaded throughout it all, the need for hope. “Fire, Fury, & Resilience: Totem Witnesses and Turtle Wisdom” continues through May 20 at Grants Pass Museum of Art.
A longtime Ashland volunteer died Tuesday after, while loading meals to deliver to housebound seniors, he was struck shortly after 10 a.m. by a vehicle when its driver mistakenly slammed on the accelerator instead of the brake pedal, according to police.
At just 21 years old, Ashland native Brooklyn Williams is stepping into her biggest role yet — the lead in Oregon Cabaret Theatre’s adaptation of “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King,” playing through Dec. 31.
A women’s singing group with member from the 27 Ukrainian families now taking refuge in Ashland will perform at a benefit concert Dec. 14.
The Trump administration will require that homeless service providers force people to receive behavioral health treatment in order to access long-term, federally supported housing, a move that could mean organizations across Oregon would have to choose between receiving federal dollars or state dollars — but not both.
A local artist who arrived in Ashland three years ago is having his first solo art show at the White Rabbit gallery in downtown Ashland. Micah Blacklight has been waiting for the chance to show the personal perspective of an injustice he has witnessed over decades.
This year marks the 10th annual Thanksgiving Community Peace Meal and the First Presbyterian Church of Ashland has offered to share their space with the community. SOJWJ is lining up volunteers and cooks, as well as those who can give financial support. They are expecting to feed more than 300 people.
Ashland has been approved for a federal loan of up to $73 million to replace its 76-year-old water treatment plant, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday. The low-interest financing will allow the city to draw funds as construction progresses.
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