As the music world mourns the loss of David Crosby, 81, on Jan. 18, one Ashland musician says the loss was deeply personal. Jeff Pevar was a longtime friend who played guitar in Crosby’s bands for more than three decades.
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Written priority comments will be accepted for public input at the Town Hall Meeting. Written comments may also be submitted by email public-testimony@ashland.or.us using the subject line: Ashland City Council Town Hall Priorities.
Following an act of vandalism to the Say Their Names memorial along the fence line at Railroad Park in Ashland in between Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, residents came together Wednesday afternoon to restore what had been taken down and renew the community spirit surrounding the T-shirts, which bear the names of Black men, women and children lost due to their race.
Hundreds of T-shirts making up the Say Their Names memorial in Ashland’s Railroad Park were torn down sometime late Tuesday evening or Wednesday morning. People came to the park Wednesday morning to collect, straighten and clean the shirts with the plan to return at 3:30 p.m. to rehang them.
Southern Oregon Climate Action Now will offer a 10-week comprehensive course on climate change and its societal effects. Classes will be held 6 to 9 p.m. Mondays starting Feb. 6 at the RCC/SOU Higher Education Center, 101 S. Bartlett St., Medford.
Obituary: Carol Lee Perez, loving sister and mother, passed away in the early morning of December 28, 2022, at the age of 74. Memorial services will be held at at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4, at Our Lady of the Mountain Catholic Church, 987 Hillview Drive, Ashland.
Former record company executive turned publishing executive Rick Bleiweiss has found a third career as an author. The Ashland resident will read from his second Pignon Scorbion novel, “Murder in Haxford,” at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 20, at Bloomsbury Books in Ashland.
Ashland City Councilor Shaun Moran announced his resignation from the council Tuesday, the day after Mayor Julie Akins said she would step down effective Friday. Moran’s letter, sent about noon Tuesday, said his resignation is effective immediately.
Ashland Mayor Julie Akins will leave office at the end of the week, she announced in a resignation letter emailed to City Manager Joe Lessard and City Council members at about 8:30 a.m. Monday. She does not cite a reason for her departure two years in to a four-year term as mayor, other than to say, “for me, it’s time.”
Ashland has a new mayor. The Ashland City Council unanimously elected council Chair Tonya Graham as mayor Tuesday night to succeed Julie Akins, who resigned effective Jan. 27.
Mailboxes throughout Jackson County will be filled this week with a 12-page broadsheet newspaper introducing the Rogue Valley Tribune to prospective readers. EO Media Group is getting the word out about its Medford-based news site and three-times a week printed paper with a saturation mailing to 93,000 area addresses.
How can something that goes so wrong be so right? That’s the intention in “The Play That Goes Wrong,” the opening play for the 2023 season at the Oregon Cabaret Theatre in Ashland. What makes the play amazing and uproariously fun is the googolplex litany of wrong things.
John Frank: “Our councilors just need to see the big picture and stop focusing on the small green stick-dots.”
How can chemistry be utilized to understand human impacts on the environment? That question will be answered during a Friday science seminar hosted by Southern Oregon University assistant professor Chris Babayco, Ph.D., organizers have announced.
Jim Hatton: “I have come to respect and honor them all. I am not here to say they are right or wrong. It is right for all individuals to seek their own path, what is right for them, and what inspires them.”
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