What to do before, during and after an evacuation are among the topics Ashland emergency officials will discuss during an evacuation preparedness meeting on Wednesday.
A 19-year-old man fell from a cliff and drowned in a swimming hole at a rock quarry reservoir 14 miles east of Ashland off Dead Indian Memorial Road Thursday evening, according to a news release from the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office.
“If that deer needs to be lethally removed, it falls to us,” Ashland Police Chief Tighe O’Meara said. “It’s not unusual to have to put down injured deer — we do that fairly frequently — but I’m not sure if this has happened before.”
Ashland resident Lola Jackson is scheduled to attend a hearing and pre-trial conference Monday, June 30, following a June 12 arrest where police allege she struck a pedestrian in a motorized wheelchair with her vehicle, according to an Ashland Police Department press release.
Changes in reporting policy, more police on the streets, and more arrests by officers led to a statistical increase in incidents regarded as uses of force by the Ashland Police Department, but the spike in stats is no cause for alarm, the city’s chief of police said Monday.
An Ashland advocate for the homeless alleges city police are aggressively enforcing rules and regulations at the city’s “night lawn” camping location to practice entrapment through issuing citations with expensive fines, all to harass the unhoused and possibly force them to move on elsewhere
Ashland Police Chief Tighe O’Meara said kids speeding through town on electric bikes have crossed a threshold of risk where law enforcement needs to respond with speeding tickets.
“The city is actively looking for a community partner to open a cooling/smoke shelter this summer,” city Communications Officer Dorinda Cottle said.
Gov. Tina Kotek on Friday said she’s ordered the extradition of a suspected member of a multi-state burglary ring who allegedly targeted Asian households throughout the Eugene area and fled to Texas, averting some of the blowback she faced for rejecting the extradition earlier this week.
Former Ashland councilor Eric Navickas was arrested following an accusation of racist comments and a subsequent altercation with Police Chief Tighe O’Meara during an Ashland City Council meeting Tuesday evening.
As of Nov. 3, Ashland Community Food Bank has a new director at the reins. Catie Mahoney will serve in the role with guidance from outgoing director Amey Broeker, who will officially retire on Dec. 31 after serving in the food bank role since 2022.
The Ashland City Council will review a proposal from a potential provider to oversee its extreme weather shelter during its regular business meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 18.
The Ashland Independent Film Festival has added a second screening showcasing Indigenous filmmakers on Sunday, Nov. 23.
Three and a half years into the war with Russia, Ashland violinist and longtime music teacher Faina Podolnaya is still finding ways to help Ukrainian refugees.
Herbert Rothschild: As the number of ads in The New Yorker has shrunk, it seems as if the wealth of its readership has concentrated, just as one might concentrate the flavor of a sauce by reducing it on the stovetop.
Local artist MaryAnn Shank will share the thoughts behind her newest novel “Sor Juana, My Beloved” at Bloomsbury Books Jan. 26. Shank is a finalist of The Isabel Allende Most Inspirational Book of the Year 2025 award, awarded by the International Latino Book Association.
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