No team should be more equipped to start the 2023 high school football season than the Ashland Grizzlies. Beyond returning nearly every starter on each side of the ball, the Grizzlies have two other pivotal factors on their side.
Nothing was more welcomed for Nick Hall than when he was chosen to take over for the baseball program he once starred for during his prep playing days. But after seven years as head coach, complicated by the 2020 pandemic, Hall has decided to move on from the Ashland High baseball program.
A tour of the Atomic Bomb Museum, a visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial and participation in a peace ceremony were part of the Ashland High School football team’s activities as they get ready for Saturday’s Pacific Rim Bowl contest.
There’s more than 5,200 miles between Ashland and Kobe, Japan, but soon the distance will be measured in yards and inches. Ashland High School football players will travel by charter bus, plane and, while in-country, bullet train, on the football program’s storied return to the annual Pacific Rim Bowl.
New COVID-19 guidelines kick into effect today, Feb. 11, at Ashland High School, including a limit on four guests per athlete at games.
The Oregon Legislature is meeting this week to consider some major cuts to current spending levels as a large revenue deficit looms. That’s because the state’s tax code automatically replicates new federal tax cuts, including ones passed by Congressional Republicans this summer that will reduce state revenue
Michael O’Looney: Trump and the Texas Legislature are responsible for a partisan power grab that has unleashed bitterness and partisan vindictiveness, all in an effort to subvert an electoral system for partisan ends.
Councilor Bob Kaplan: While the cost of delivering kilowatt-hours to our homes has risen, Ashland Electric has been able to hold our rates steady with just one increase of 5.1% in 2021. I’m sorry to say we’re due for an increase, but fortunately it’s not likely to match recent increases elsewhere.
An estimate for the cost to abate asbestos found in the shuttered Lincoln School recently should be available as early as sometime this week, according to Steve Mitzel, operations director for Ashland School District. The cost to remove asbestos would be separate from the as yet-unknown cost for structural repair.
“We are still here” was the theme for Saturday’s Native American Heritage Celebration at Southern Oregon University, hosted by the SOU Native American Student Union (NASU) and SOU Native Nations Liaison Kenwanicahee (Kenwani) Kravitz (Madesi Bandi, Pit River Nation Winnemem, Nomtipom and Nomsus Bands Northern Wintu).
As Oregon lawmakers stare down a deficit of at least $373 million over the next two years — and brace for the possibility of a bigger shortfall in the state’s next quarterly revenue — they asked state agencies to create lists of ways to cut 5% of their approved budgets.
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