Of course we care! Where are the folks that use the night camping site behind the police station? They were advised to move. I’m sure it was all civically legal, etc. But have they disappeared from our town? Where did they go? How are they? I don’t think that we are a bunch of citizens that just let people in our community go without any kind of reaction.
Wendy Eppinger
Ashland
Benjamin Ben-Baruch: So I suggest that in approaching the local problem of homelessness in Ashland and Jackson County we learn from the Israelis we admire about dealing with a problematic population and recognize that “the lawn” needs mowing.
Sandra Scase: The idea of sanctioning cycling in Lithia Park should therefore be a non-starter for the following reason alone: Bikes drive hikers off trails.
Steven Essig: Sixty-five percent of our classified school employees are eligible for food stamps as individuals, and a staggering 93% are eligible as a family of three.
John Marciano: Violence at home and abroad is not antithetical to America, it has been its very nature since the founding.
Those driving through downtown Ashland Thursday afternoon may have encountered a traffic disruption at the corner of East Main and North Pioneer streets when first responders closed off some traffic lanes while they investigated what was initially reported as a structure fire.
The recently completed $750,000 Bear Creek River Mile 19 project wasn’t intended to have a strictly surface level effect, but to create a nuanced restoration of eight acres of wildland urban interface within the Almeda Fire scar.
The Ashland Independent Film Festival kicks off its four-day run Thursday, Oct. 3, with the centerpiece film for the festival, ‘Including Us,’ set for its world premiere Saturday. The film, made by local director Brandon Givens, is about the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s production of “Hairspray: A Broadway Musical” in 2019. The story focuses on four actors with disabilities who starred in the musical, along with the rest of the cast.
Electric Department Head Tom McBartlett presented a master plan to keep the city of Ashland’s electric department safe, reliable and capable of meeting future demand at the Ashland City Council study session Monday. The plan projected that, with a few changes, the city’s electric system would be capable of handling the projected population growth and with a few potential upgrades and alterations — such as an expansion of the Mountain Avenue substation and a potential upgrade to its transformer.
After narrowly making it back to Southern Oregon on one of the last flights out of Asheville, North Carolina, before remnants of Hurricane Helene touched down last Thursday, Ashland resident Ashley Brown is hearing devastating news directly from friends in the area.
Rough patches of pavement along about a mile of North and East Main streets and Lithia Way were ground up and taken away, replaced by freshly laid inlays of asphalt Monday and Tuesday during a joint project of the Oregon Department of Transportation and the city of Ashland.
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