City Corner: This summer the city of Ashland received two grants from the Energy Efficiency and Community Block Grant program through the Oregon Department of Energy. These grants will support the launch of a new Home Energy Score initiative and the continuation of the city’s electric vehicle CarShare program.
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Councilor Bob Kaplan: Did you know that Ashland is one of just 12 Oregon municipalities that owns its electric utility? Ashland households pay significantly less for electricity than our neighbors in Talent, Phoenix and Medford.
City Corner: Please remember, effective emergency preparedness means ensuring ALL your family members have access to Citizen Alerts, including older children with cellphones.
City Corner: All tourist accommodations require approval from the Planning Department. This includes short-term rentals offered through online platforms like Airbnb.
City Corner: If you are interested in running and have questions after reading this, please set up an appointment with our city recorder. We’re here to help.
Mayor Tonya Graham: While we can’t keep wildfire from coming, we can narrow its path of destruction by reducing wildfire risk around our homes before it arrives.
Council Corner: Ashland’s diverse network of trails is world-class! Considering all of the awesome opportunities that our existing trials offer, I believe the city needs to keep trails at the forefront of our strategic expansion and development.
Jeff Dahle: (Consider) how life as we know it would come to an immediate and abrupt standstill if one day we turned on the faucet and nothing happened. No drinking. No cooking. No cleaning. No personal hygiene or basic sanitation.
Bob Kaplan: We need to replace our aging water treatment plant. … There’s no space there to treat toxic algae that are a growing risk with hotter summers, and the treatment plant is vulnerable to floods, fires and landslides.
Ashland School District plans to contract with a Eugene-based firm to “shore up” the 1948 wing of the shuttered Lincoln School building, which the city fire marshal ordered shut days before the beginning of the school year in August.
The Rogue Theater Company will bring to life Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot,” opening Thursday, Oct. 16. The production features a cast of celebrated Oregon Shakespeare Festival actors.
After having to adapt on the fly during the Almeda Fire five years ago, agencies across Jackson County now have a shared wildfire evacuation plan that spells out each group’s duties. Law enforcement leads the way In the event of a citywide wildfire evacuation, while local fire departments and the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) will focus on fighting the fire.
Jim Hatton: There is only one thing that causes unhappiness: attachment. Attachment comes when we hold on to something for fear of losing it because we believe that we can’t be happy without it.
Herbert Rothschild: Is it possible to write columns about torturing people in Guantanamo or eliminating the U.S. Agency for International Development without alienating those who are OK with such actions?
Nearly 600 people packed the Angus Bowmer Theatre in Ashland Monday for a talk by internationally recognized civil rights expert john a. powell and the launch of a new local initiative aimed at fostering collaboration.
(It’s free)
