Jackson County Fire District No. 5 officials say ongoing brownouts will continue for the district’s Neil Creek Road fire station near Emigrant Lake as the embattled district navigates budget struggles and staffing limitations.
Electrical power is expected to be fully restored in the area near Asante Ashland Community Hospital at about 7 p.m., according to a post on the city of Ashland website shortly before 2 p.m. A report of downed power lines and a power outage near the intersection of Chestnut Street and Catalina Drive came in shortly after noon Friday, according the the PulsePoint app.
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.
A red flag warning for fire weather was issued Monday for the broad areas of southwest Oregon and northwest California, including the Ashland area, effective until 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 1, according to the National Weather Service’s forecast.
After nearly five months and 1.9 million acres burned, officials predict the end of Oregon’s fire season to fall in mid-October. Projections from the Northwest Interagency Coordination Center showed one or two more “significant event days” before the state is fully out of the 2024 wildfire season.
Catty Corner: All of us in the Rogue Valley know all too well that we need to be prepared for fire season — and we also need to make sure our pets are packed and ready to go. Here are a few tips for putting together your feline go bag.
The sun will come up again tomorrow, they say, a reminder that even in the face of hardship, life and hope persevere. And this weekend, sunflowers returned to line the streets of Phoenix and Talent, just as they did the day after the Almeda Fire four years ago, helping rally the spirits of the community.
A wind-driven grass fire ignited near Almeda Drive on Sept. 8, 2020, ravaged its way northwest through the wildland urban interface, destroying thousands of structures through Talent and Phoenix. The direction of the wind that day is often credited with preserving Ashland from the fire. But there was also a quick intervention from the south, when firefighters with the Greensprings Rural Fire District extinguished a vehicle fire intentionally set on fire at Emigrant Lake.
Local law enforcement agencies say they’d love nothing more than a break in the investigation into the cause of the devastating Almeda Fire of Sept. 8, 2020. Sadly, four years since the fire destroyed more than 2,500 homes and burned 3,200 acres between Ashland and Phoenix, investigators don’t know much more than they did immediately after the fire.
Lessons learned in the Almeda Fire nearly four years ago were put to good use Wednesday afternoon when a fast-moving brush fire broke out near Exit 11 south of Ashland. Multiple agencies swarmed the blaze, issued alerts and conducted evacuations with a degree of coordination not present during the disastrous conflagration of 2020.
Ashland councilors Gina DuQuenne and Dylan Bloom on Wednesday gave Southern Oregon University students a lesson in how to express mutual admiration even while disagreeing. The councilors met with 15 students at Britt Hall to discuss voting, Ashland-centered topics and how to bridge the communication gap between the SOU campus and Ashland.
Review: “Witch,” isn’t exactly a Halloween piece per se, but it is unsettling. And if you like stories that are distinctive, disturbing yet thought-provoking, this might be for you. This is a play where no one is as they seem; where our motives and desires can give rise to good or evil.
Bob Palermini, professional photographer, will give a presentation about photojournalism at the Southern Oregon Photographic Association meeting on October 15 in Medford. He studied photojournalism in college and has been a photographer for Ashland.news since shortly after it debuted in January 2022.
Herbert Rothschild: It would be stunning if the presidential candidates were asked during a debate whether they are disturbed by the prospect of leaving office with blood on their hands.
A quarter-mile stretch of Walker Avenue between the railroad tracks and East Main Street will be closed Friday, Oct. 11, and Monday, Oct. 14, so roadwork can be done,the city of Ashland announced Thursday. Profiling and grinding work is planned for 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, while overlay is set to be laid down Monday from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m
For the upcoming Ashland City Council election, all candidates were contacted by Ashland.news for interviews. All who responded were asked the same six questions. Answers from candidates competing for the same position have been paired together. In this, is the first of three articles on contested council seats, we hear from Kelly Marcotulli and Jeff Dahle, candidates for council Position 2.
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