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Mt. Ashland mountain bikers have a new jump line trail
There’s something new at the Mt. Ashland Ski Area but, it doesn’t involve skiing.
August 20, 2025
There’s something new at the Mt. Ashland Ski Area but, it doesn’t involve skiing.
Book bags provided by Friends of the Ashland Public Library were given to all students with their favorite books inside, personalized just for them, as well as special gifts donated by community partners.
The Ashland Daily Tidings — established as a newspaper in 1876 — ceased operations in 2021 (its parent company, Rosebud Media, held on until 2023), but if you were a local reader, you may not have known. Almost as soon as it closed, a website for the Tidings reemerged, supposedly boasting a team of eight reporters who cranked out densely reported stories every few days. The reality was that none of the people allegedly working for the Ashland Daily Tidings existed, or at least were who they claimed to be. The bylines listed on Daily Tidings articles were put there by scammers using artificial intelligence, and in some cases stolen identities, to dupe local readers.
Soroptomist Report: The Soroptimist Strong Girls Strong Women (SSGSW) Program was created in 2008, with Helman Elementary School selected to be Soroptimist’s partner. Now, after 16 years, despite COVID and other changes, we are back!
While veterans enjoyed pancakes, scrambled eggs, and biscuits and gravy at the annual Veterans Day Breakfast on Monday, the Rogue Valley Peace Choir served up patriotic tunes with charisma, their first performance for the event held at the Ashland Elks Lodge each year since 2017.
Elk’s Lodge 944 will serve breakfast starting at 7 a.m. Monday, Nov. 11, with Scouts from the Ashland troop taking orders and guiding veterans to their seats. Food will be served until about 11:30 a.m. or until it runs out.
“One Brick at a Time: Rebuilding the Oregon Shakespeare Festival” is a free public program at the Ashland Public Library on Nov. 12 to discuss the comprehensive process OSF has used to rebuild following the Covid-19 pandemic, focusing on several key areas of transformation.
The long-range security of Ashland’s drinking water supply requires an improvement in its facilities in a less risk-prone setting, but the cost of such a project and uncertainty about who’ll pay how much for how long requires more information before taking on the huge debt involved, Rotary Club of Ashland members were told at their weekly meeting in Wesley Hall at First United Methodist Church on Sept. 12.
Five Southern Oregon-based women were honored as scholarship recipients of American Association of University Women (AAUW) on Wednesday at Southern Oregon University, during the branch’s annual “Celebration of Scholars,” which included three students from SOU and two from Rogue Community College.
Ashland celebrated Flag Day on Friday with U.S. flags displayed throughout town. Ashland Elks Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE) No. 944, provided a Flag Day celebration ceremony at noon on the Plaza downtown.
After a successful production of “The Vagina Monologues” and raising more than $2,000 for Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon, Ashland actor and director Lia Dugal intends for “The Climate Monologues” to premiere in Oregon in late 2025 or early 2026 at the Bellview Grange in Ashland.
It’s complicated.
Herbert Rothschild: Whether visualization and intention by themselves can effect broad social change is impossible to determine, but the question merits sustained consideration.
U.S. Rep. Cliff Bentz said he is willing to return to in-person town halls if decorum and safety can be guaranteed. He specifically called out the group ORD2 Invisible, which Bentz said has orchestrated disruptions at meetings. The group pushed back, and said Bentz is scapegoating the organization to avoid accountability.
KS Wild will celebrate their annual dinner event Saturday, Sept. 27, at the historic Ashland Armory, 208 Oak St.
Rabbi Jackie Brodsky: As many seem to have forgotten or denied, the current war in Gaza was started by Hamas terrorists breaking a ceasefire on Oct.7, 2023, when the worst attack on the Jews since the Holocaust took place.
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