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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.
Barbara Shor: I first met Jane Goodall in 1987 at a lecture she gave at the Sacramento Zoo, where I was working as veterinarian as part of my residency program in non-domestic animal medicine at UC Davis.
Ashland, long celebrated for its Shakespearean drama, is about to trade soliloquies for sarcasm. From Dec. 5 to 7, the city will host the inaugural Ashland Sarcasm Festival (ASF!), a comedy takeover designed to fill theaters, bars and restaurants with sharp wit, satire and laughter.
Tickets are selling fast for “Mass for the Endangered,” described as a multi-sensory film experience of music and animated artwork being presented Sunday at the ScienceWorks Hands-On Museum in Ashland.
Ashland Scout Troop 112 will honor local veterans with a free Veterans Day breakfast on Tuesday, Nov. 11, from 7 to 11:30 a.m., or until food runs out, at Elks Lodge No. 944. Scouts will take orders, serve meals and visit with veterans as part of the local troop’s tradition of showing gratitude to those who served.
A proposal to improve safety along Lithia Park’s received a tepid response from the Ashland Parks & Recreation Commission on Wednesday, Nov. 5. Although commissioners supported adding disability parking near the Japanese Garden and created a designated pedestrian walkway, many questioned whether the cost would lead to meaningful safety improvements.
Medford voters appear to have approved a 2% increase to the city’s transient lodging tax, which will help partially pay for the construction of a downtown conference center and minor-league ballpark.
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