With the Art Authority Museum app developed by an Ashland-led team, Apple Vision Pro users can view tens of thousands of artworks from around the world. Previews available on the free Art Authority Museum app transport users to the fully immersive museum lobby and begins a chronological tour, starting with the early Renaissance period.
Bob Kaplan: Advisory committees are an opportunity for Ashland residents to pitch in on important issues facing our community. Being part of a city advisory committee is a great way to get involved with local government on issues you really care about and want to help.
Janai Mestrovich: Suddenly, the voice interrupted what I was doing to tell me, “You were born to help.” … I took it in a literal way and years later realized the voice was confirming the purpose of my presence in this life.
Herbert Rothschild: Consider what it would mean to give an unborn organism the status of a human being in criminal law. … The state would have an almost unlimited hold on the lives of women of childbearing age.
Repeated failures in the reading of water meter radio signals have Talent city officials looking to replace both the signal devices and the meters. The money to pay for the work could come from $825,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funds that were originally budgeted to rehabilitate the city’s skate park and to move the tennis and pickleball courts in Chuck Roberts Park.
The Oregon Legislature is poised to vote on a $376 million housing package that would give cities more flexibility to build homes outside city limits. The proposal, split into four bills and endorsed by the budget-writing Joint Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday, now heads to the full House and Senate for votes.
Monday, March 4, 2024. Council Chambers, 1175 E Main Street.
Tuesday, March 5, 2024. Council Chambers, 1175 E Main Street.
March 6, 2024. Council Chambers – 6 P.M. 1175 E Main Street.
The former dean and professor of the University of Portland School of Nursing & Health Innovations will be the next provost and vice president for academic and student affairs at Southern Oregon University, the university announced Tuesday.
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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