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Ask Strider: This week, the dog about town answers questions about his friendship with a cedar tree. And he relishes his memory of the one place he still dreams about going, the day Tod forgot to wear her Bogs.
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Ask Strider: This week, the dog about town answers questions about his friendship with a cedar tree. And he relishes his memory of the one place he still dreams about going, the day Tod forgot to wear her Bogs.
Three Ashlanders – all Democrats – were represented in county, state, and congressional elections on Tuesday, Nov. 5, with state Rep. Pam Marsh the sole winner among them. She was handily re-elected to her fifth term serving the district.
In large margins of victory, incumbents and old hands carried the night in an election with three council seats and two parks commission seats on the ballot. Measure 15-234, a city of Ashland asking voters whether they approve of council resolution 2024-05, authority to issue water revenue bonds, was approved by voters with 73.18% of the vote.
Ashland Parks and Recreation Commissioners will consider prioritizing portions of the Lithia Park Master Plan during an evening study session on Wednesday, Nov. 6. Formally adopted during the Oct. 4 APRC business meeting, the Lithia Park Masterplan identifies 37 recommendations for the park’s future.
Voters turned out to Ashland’s sole ballot box Tuesday morning outside the Ashland Public Library, some for the first time in their lives. The polls were open until 8 p.m. at the only ballot box in the city. Ashland police had a presence at the ballot box throughout the day and planned to stay until county election workers removed ballots from the box.
One day before the Nov. 5 general election, more than half of Jackson County’s 164,463 eligible voters had returned their ballots — and counting. The Ashland ballot boxes in the alley behind the library at 410 Siskiyou Blvd. will be open until 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5. Under Oregon law, mailed ballots with a Nov. 5 or earlier postmarked will be accepted until Nov. 12.
For the upcoming Ashland Parks and Recreation Commission election, all candidates were contacted by Ashland.news for interviews. All who responded were asked the same questions. For this article, Parks & Recreation Commission Position 2 candidates Ian Cropper, Rick Vann and Daniel Weiner say why they’re running what they’d like to get done.
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