Catty Corner: Do you have community cats in your area? With local rescues overwhelmed by kitten season, learn how to trap, neuter and release (TNR) cats yourself. It may seem challenging, but taking it one cat at a time leads to less suffering and a healthier environment for cats and humans alike.
Three guinea pigs had been left in Lithia Park, Ashland Community Service Officer Denise Aguilera was told when she was called to respond. The guinea pigs were left in a carrier “with a sign indicating ‘Free for the taking,’” Ashland Police Chief Tighe O’Meara said in an email Wednesday.
Herbert Rothschild: Some Lenten sustenance: Currently, nearly 3.5 million Afghan children are suffering acute malnutrition. And on March 1, Netanyahu sentenced the Gazans to starvation.
More than 12 million Americans who took out loans from the U.S. Department of Education to attend college are now stuck in limbo about whether or not they’ll get to participate in income-driven repayment plans that have served millions of Americans before them.
Ashland artist Rachel Hallett Ralston will host a gallery party Saturday, March 15, at Langford Gallery in Phoenix. Ralston will address the group in a talk on the creative process she has experienced in her work and showcase a variety of different art works on exhibit.
In an open house with Portland-based developer Edlen & Co. and locally-based Arkitek and Outlier Construction held for school district employees in late February, the real estate investment firm heard a mix of praise, questions and concerns from those in attendance on the proposed project to build a 90-plus unit housing development in conjunction with nonprofit Sunstone Housing Collaborative, established by two members of the Ashland School Board, at the southeast corner of East Main Street and South Mountain Avenue.
An application for a single-family home planned for the slopes above Granite Street by Bryan and Stephanie DeBoer was neither approved nor denied Tuesday by the Ashland Planning Commission after a member of the public invoked an Oregon statute which requires the commission to keep the public record open for an additional period. It now closes March 18.
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