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.
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.
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.
A Community Resource Center will be coming to Talent after the city received notice of approval for a $1.5 million federal grant from Business Oregon in late December. The center would house nonprofit agencies that work for the benefit of Talent citizens.
Curtain Call: Popular orchestra conductor Martin Majkut has added another gig to his already busy schedule. Majkut, the music director of the Rogue Valley Symphony and the Queens Symphony Orchestra in New York, has been appointed the new music director of the Oregon Coast Music Association’s festival orchestra.
An audit found “significant deficiencies” in the Ashland School District’s 2023 budget, such as failing to properly account for $677,841 in a contingency fund. The corrected budget issues don’t affect the district’s budget shortfall issues, which will require cutting school days this year and other measures.
Ashland Parks & Recreation Commissioners approved an exception Wednesday to the commission’s integrated pest management policy in the hopes of saving several trees in and around the Japanese Garden in Litha Park.
Nearly 5,000 Providence Health & Systems nurses and other professionals walked off their jobs Friday in the largest strike by health workers in state history — and the first involving unionized doctors.
Folk singers are lighting up stages in the Northwest, talking about peace and the resistance to war and oppression. On Jan. 12, Rogue Valley residents will have the opportunity to come together to be inspired to work for peace at a special concert called “A Woman’s Song for Peace.”
Elizabeth Steiner, a Portland Democrat and former state senator, took the oath of office as Oregon’s first female state treasurer in front of a crowd of legendary state politicians and prominent party figures like Barbara Roberts, and former Gov. Kate Brown
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.
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: 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.
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.
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: Mary Piper took this photo of Emigrant Lake recently. As of Jan. 12, the lake was 39% full, according to the Bureau of Reclamation.
(It’s free)
