The Oregon Department of Transportation will host an open house about two upcoming bridge improvement projects from 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 28, at The Grove, 1195 E. Main St., Ashland, according to a news release.
Two Ashland innkeepers help mothers of people with special needs get much-needed breaks from caregiving by, in coordination with the nonprofit organization A Mother’s Rest, offering three-night stays at their inns, Country Willows Inn on Clay Street and Chanticleer Inn on Gresham Street.
Local outdoor nonprofit the Siskiyou Mountain Club will hold the grand opening of an outdoor store whose proceeds are intended to fund regional trail maintenance from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, April 13, at 33 N. Third St., Ashland.
The Rogue Valley Times has filled two important roles with the hiring of a publisher and an advertising sales manager. Long Beach Post publisher David Sommers will take the helm as the first publisher of the Times, while Cheryl McKenzie, a former advertising executive with the former Mail Tribune, will build the ad department “from the ground up.”
After announcing last week that the ski-snowboarding area broken its all-time season attendance record, Mt. Ashland Ski Area managers announced Sunday that its season has been extended to April 23, adding two weekends on to a schedule that typically would have ended on April 9.
Synthesis Institute has imploded, with bankruptcy leaving more than 200 current students in limbo. The Dutch organization had planned to develop Buckhorn Springs Resort, a 124-acre property approximately 5 miles southeast of Ashland.
On Wednesday, March 1, the Rogue Valley Tribune changed its name to the Rogue Valley Times. The move was spurred by threats of legal action by the owner of the Medford Mail Tribune, who closed the newspaper Jan. 13.
What do you need to know about what’s going on in your community? How do you currently find out that information? How would you like to find out that information? Those are the kinds of questions a team of University of Oregon researchers are hoping you’ll help answer.
Local news is critical for democracy and needs state support to continue, supporters of a legislative proposal told the Oregon House Rules Committee on Thursday. House Bill 2605 would pay for a resource center to give emergency grants and other support to local journalists and newsrooms.
Mailboxes throughout Jackson County will be filled this week with a 12-page broadsheet newspaper introducing the Rogue Valley Tribune to prospective readers. EO Media Group is getting the word out about its Medford-based news site and three-times a week printed paper with a saturation mailing to 93,000 area addresses.
The Say Their Names T-shirt memorial at Railroad Park in Ashland was vandalized again this week, but a group of community members long invested with maintaining the shirts have organized an event for Sunday, April 2, to rebuild the memorial.
Obituary: Jefferson Straub, 78, passed away Feb.25, 2023, in the arms of his wife, Kelly Nash Straub. A celebration of Jeff’s life will be held at the Ashland Congregational Church at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 6.
Herbert Rothschild: “When they covered the 20th anniversary of our invasion of Iraq, our mainstream media were as craven as they were during the run-up to the invasion itself.”
Productions of all kinds and sizes abound at the Oregon Fringe Festival, which will begin its five-day run of unfiltered creative outpourings in Ashland on April 26. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the festival is produced by the Oregon Center for the Arts at Southern Oregon University.
Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument officials are accepting applications for the annual Artist-In-Residence program through April 17. Selected artists receive a residency at the monument during the early summer months, where they will spend time creating art while surrounded by the monument’s natural beauty.
Ashland Rotary will host its annual Easter egg hunt event at 1 p.m. Sunday, April 9, at Lithia Park near the pickleball courts, according to a news release.
(It’s free)
