Talent Library employees and patrons are speaking out after multiple incidents at the Home Street branch within the past two weeks in which a man using a library computer station was observed watching what they believed to be child pornography.
Homes and businesses across Ashland are lighting up the season with creative holiday displays. Whether discovered by a reader tip or chance, these glowing scenes add warmth and joy to an ordinary drive through town.
Uncertainty hangs over the job status of Ashland Parks & Recreation Director Rocky Houston, as city officials refuse to confirm whether he has been suspended. Despite repeated inquiries, the city has declined to comment, citing personnel confidentiality, while Houston remains unresponsive, and an acting director has been named.
A record $4.15 million in grant funding has been awarded to 91 organizations statewide through the Oregon Cultural Trust this year, with BASE Southern Oregon selected as one of the grant-winning groups and will receive $34,000.
Southern Oregon Jobs for Justice will host a free holiday party and community meal from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 20, at First Presbyterian Church of Ashland. The event will include a hot holiday meal, donated gifts to choose from, and a sense of family for what, for many, is a lonely time of year.
Hundreds gathered at the Historic Ashland Armory Sunday for the 22nd annual Abundance Swap, trading gifts and embracing a holiday tradition focused on generosity, community and connection over consumerism.
Chabad Jewish Center of Southern Oregon celebrated the lighting of a 10-foot public Hanukkah menorah on the Ashland Plaza Sunday, the first night of the eight-day Festival of Lights. But underlying the celebration was unexpected sorrow, according to Rabbi Avi Zwiebel, who said his day began by learning bad news.
A fire destroyed a manufacturing facility in Madagascar that partners with an Ashland-based business that is raising funds to help the 400 artisans recover.
The annual “Gnomecoming Lantern Procession to Welcome Winter” returns to both the Ashland Plaza and Lithia Park starting at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 21, hosted by the White Rabbit and the Gnomecoming Planning Committee. The event will feature lantern and wish making, winter elixirs, caroling and more.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go and look — especially in Talent last Saturday evening during the 12th annual Lights on Bikes ride. Talentonians came out in droves Dec. 13 for the lit-up bike ride and costume contest.
Rogue Valley Symphony tuba player Mike Knox is retiring this season after 55 years with the orchestra, a tenure that stretches back to the orchestra’s earliest days.
Talent Library employees and patrons are speaking out after multiple incidents at the Home Street branch within the past two weeks in which a man using a library computer station was observed watching what they believed to be child pornography.
Seventeen cannabis workers in the Rogue Valley were detained during federal drug investigations and transferred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody on July 30, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, making it one of if not the largest such enforcement activities in Oregon since the Trump administration began its immigration enforcement push early this year.
Homes and businesses across Ashland are lighting up the season with creative holiday displays. Whether discovered by a reader tip or chance, these glowing scenes add warmth and joy to an ordinary drive through town.
The Ashland Orthopedic Surgery and Spine Care Clinic on Maple Street will close in March, Asante has confirmed.
Uncertainty hangs over the job status of Ashland Parks & Recreation Director Rocky Houston, as city officials refuse to confirm whether he has been suspended. Despite repeated inquiries, the city has declined to comment, citing personnel confidentiality, while Houston remains unresponsive, and an acting director has been named.
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