Ashland’s 30-year love affair with a cozy little coffee shop has sparked a new match with an equally loved 52-year-old Ashland organic grocery store. The marriage of Rogue Valley Roasting Company to the Ashland Food Co-op became official this week.
Rick Bevel was 68 years old when he died Friday, April 26, about a month after he was discharged from the intensive care unit at a Portland hospital where he had been treated for injuries sustained during an altercation and ensuing fire on Jan. 16 at the city of Ashland’s dusk-to-dawn sleeping area — an event his fiancée says led to his death.
The city of Ashland’s new child care development grant ended its first year with some success — 40 new slots available for children that served a total of 37 families. The city of Ashland’s Ad hoc Committee on Affordable Childcare has studied the “landscape” of child care in Ashland and found strengths and weaknesses.
A Talent manufactured home park that was mostly destroyed by the 2020 Almeda Fire will reemerge as a facility owned and managed by tenants. There are hopes that construction will be finished by early September, and it is anticipated that 20-25 of the original park residents will return.
The skies were overcast, but there was excitement in Ashland on Saturday at the 32nd annual Rogue Valley Bike Swap. Hundreds of bikes of all sizes and types, as well as helmets and bike parts, were available for sale.
Walls were raised for the first two Habitat for Humanity homes in Ashland in almost two decades Saturday at a joyous event attended by about 100 people at the new Beach Creek development off North Mountain Avenue just northeast of the railroad tracks.
A majority of U.S Supreme Court justices Monday seemed inclined to side with an Oregon town’s law that bans homeless people from sleeping outdoors, in a case that could have broad implications for local ordinances related to homelessness across the country.
On the same day the U.S. Supreme Court took up the constitutional validity of Grants Pass’ laws regarding homelessness and urban camping, roughly two dozen Ashland residents took to the Plaza to rally in support of housing.
The chef and owner of MÄS in Ashland is one of five finalists for a coveted James Beard Foundation Award in the Best Chef: Northwest and Pacific category. In 2023 he was among the semifinalists in the same category.
Federal regulators are allowing construction to begin on expanding a controversial gas pipeline running from Washington, across a part of Idaho and through Oregon to Northern California. The project is opposed by environmentalists, the governors of Oregon and Washington, the states’ U.S. senators and the attorneys general of Oregon, Washington and California.
It’s coming back. Another wave of charged solar material will sweep into the Earth’s atmosphere, sparking a secondary aurora borealis peak Sunday, May 12, the Space Weather Prediction Center, part of the National Weather Service, announced Saturday.
Ashland’s 30-year love affair with a cozy little coffee shop has sparked a new match with an equally loved 52-year-old Ashland organic grocery store. The marriage of Rogue Valley Roasting Company to the Ashland Food Co-op became official this week.
The Ashland Independent Film Festival (AIFF) has announced the dates for this year’s festival: Thursday through Sunday, Oct. 3 to 6. AIFF memberships are now available on the website at ashlandfilm.org, and AIFF is actively seeking sponsors to support independent filmmaking and foster artistic expression.
Phone call fraud scam calls are common. A local victim and near-victim told Ashland.news how their deals went down — or nearly down, and authorities talk about giveaways it’s a scam (hint: it’s the money).
Jessica Bryan: We were transfixed behind our window. We felt as though we were staring into the face of God, infinity, the vast silence of stars in the night sky.
Chris Honoré: The reality is that in this moment we have only one political party and one candidate that believe in our form of democratic governance. We stand on a precipice.
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