January 16, 2025

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AI slop is already invading Oregon’s local journalism

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.

December 9, 2024

Columnists

Soroptimist Report: Celebrating success of Strong Girls, Strong Women program

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!

November 25, 2024

Events

Rogue Valley Peace Choir performed for Veterans Day breakfast in Ashland

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.

November 13, 2024

Events

Scouts to serve Veterans Day breakfast Monday at Elks Lodge

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.

November 8, 2024

Events

Big Ideas: Forecasting a bright future for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival

“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.

October 31, 2024

City Government

Rotarians hosted water treatment plant program

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.

October 27, 2024

Education

Ashland branch of AAUW hosts ‘Celebration of Scholars’ at SOU

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.

October 20, 2024

Events

Flag Day observed on Ashland Plaza

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.

June 15, 2024

Community

Only a drill — this time: Volunteer emergency responders role-play response to approaching fire

Volunteers from the city’s Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) assembled for a quick refresher on the basics of disaster response Wednesday before dividing into teams and fanning out across the Railroad District for some door-knocking and community education. Ashland police were practicing a similar drill in other parts of the city.

June 14, 2024

Ashland School District

The Rotary Club of Ashland awards scholarships for 2024

The Ashland Rotary Foundation (ARF) introduced its Ashland High School (AHS) scholarship recipients and their guests at the Rotary Club of Ashland luncheon meeting on May 23 and distributed scholarships that evening at AHS Awards Night.

May 29, 2024

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The YMCA adds a new locker — a book locker

January 16, 2025

A bright blue book locker outside the Ashland Family YMCA provides a new, more convenient way to check out materials from the library. The book locker can be accessed 24/7. Books are placed on hold through the library services website, which also has a video showing the book locker installation.

Letter: Support the Providence Health strikers

January 16, 2025

John Marciano and Leslie Dwyer: While hedge funds and rich corporate interests are buying up hospitals across the country and cutting services and staff to increase their profits, the well-being of hospital staff and patients is undermined.

KS Wild Side: Wildlife overpass slated for construction at an ecological crossroads

January 16, 2025

KS Wild Side: With the help of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Wildlife Crossing Pilot Program, the state of Oregon will see its first wildlife overpass built in Ashland’s backyard. The proposed wildlife overpass is located roughly at mile marker 1.7 on Interstate 5, just north of the California border.

Sleeping at the shelter: ‘Sorry you came on a quiet night’

January 15, 2025

Editor’s note: Ashland.news reporter Morgan Rothborne covers city government, including its ongoing efforts to find ways to shape policies around homelessness. For better insight into the issue, Rothborne spent a night in early December in the shelter when it was operated by Jobs with Justice in Calvin Hall at First Presbyterian Church of Ashland.

Child exploitation search warrant served in Ashland

January 14, 2025

An Ashland man was arrested after an ongoing investigation “into child exploitation and internet crimes against children” led to execution of a search warrant on Alida Street early Tuesday, according to a news release from the Ashland Police Department.

Reader Photo: Reflective day at Emigrant Lake

January 13, 2025

Reader Photo: Mary Piper took this photo of Emigrant Lake recently. As of Jan. 12, the lake was 39% full, according to the Bureau of Reclamation.

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