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Public Notice: ASHLAND CITY COUNCIL & ASHLAND PARK AND RECREATION COMMISSION
SPECIAL MEETING AGENDA. WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2024. Council Chambers, 1175 E Main Street.
May 4, 2024
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SPECIAL MEETING AGENDA. WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2024. Council Chambers, 1175 E Main Street.
ASHLAND PARKS & RECREATION COMMISSION. May 1, 2024. Council Chambers – 6:00 PM 1175 E Main Street .
April 10, 2024. Council Chambers – 6 P.M. 1175 E Main Street.
March 6, 2024. Council Chambers – 6 P.M. 1175 E Main Street.
February 7, 2024. Council Chambers – 6 p.m. 1175 E Main St.
January 17, 2024. Council Chambers – 6 p.m. 1175 E Main St.
January 10, 2024. Council Chambers – 6 p.m. 1175 E Main St.
December 6, 2023. Council Chambers – 6 p.m. 1175 E Main St.
November 8, 2023. Council Chambers – 6 p.m. 1175 E Main St.
November 1, 2023. Electronic Meeting – 6 P.M. Public Participation Instructions. This meeting will be held electronically via Zoom Webinar.
The latest of the Jefferson Center’s Salon series Sunday, May 19, features the reading of a scene from Bertolt Brecht’s play “The Life of Galileo,” directed by local actor, Shakespeare scholar and Jefferson Center member Barry Kraft
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is back — and now so is the gift shop. On Friday, May 17, a 5 p.m. ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrated the opening of the long-awaited new gift shop at the corner of Pioneer and Main Streets, formerly the home of the OSF Welcome Center.
Ashland voters will decide whether the city recorder will continue to be elected or instead become an appointed position and whether the chief of police must be the one serving as sergeant at arms, keeping the peace during city council meetings. Ballots must be mailed and postmarked by Tuesday, May 21, or dropped into an official ballot drop box by 8 p.m. Tuesday.
Ashland resident Tom Giordano didn’t know until recently that his grandfather Salvatore Giordano was a world-renowned opera singer who sang in Ashland 110 years ago at the opening of a new theater on East Main Street.
Ashland artist and Hollywood screenwriter Doug Wallace’s lifelong devotion to creativity is on display in a one-man art show at the Jack Langford Gallery through June. The show opens with an artist’s reception and Ekphrastic poetry event hosted by John Frohnmayer, a writer, poet and former head of the National Endowment of the Arts from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, May 17.
Ashland has a wealth of historic stories and sites, but the stories need telling and the sites need marking. An organized process called Marking Ashland Places (MAP) began a few years ago. Thanks to years-long work by volunteers from the Historic Preservation and Public Arts committees, we now have a large sculpture in Railroad Park along with five historic markers in the Railroad District.
(It’s free)