Ashland News

The Medford Food Project will celebrate its first anniversary Saturday with more than triple the number of participating households than when it first began the bimonthly food drive.

The Southern Oregon Repertory Singers will present "Mozart & More," selections of music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, his father Leopold Mozart and Georg Friedrich Handel, at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb.

The third annual ball - a celebration of sexual diversity and gender identity - will be from 7 to 10 p.m. Friday, Feb.

Members of the Oregon Guitar Quartet share a high level of expertise in dozens of music styles from rock, jazz and blues to folk, flamenco and world music.

At least 213 homeless children and adults live in Ashland, according to numbers from the Ashland School District and a tally from volunteers who fanned out across town to count homeless residents.

An unidentified man sneaked up behind a woman sitting on a bench in south Ashland late Wednesday and dragged her into the bushes where he tried to sexually assault her, police said.

The Ashland American Association of University Women will host a community forum entitled "Making Life Work for Seniors" from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, Feb.

If you see a fit man on a racing bike with wine tucked into the water-bottle cage, slow down.

Grants up to 600 dollars are now available to Ashland residents to remove and modify fire-prone vegetation near their homes.

Direct from America's "Sin City," Moksha will present improvisational funk-rock at 9 p.m. Saturday, Feb.

Barbara Simmons, mother of William Frank Simmons, takes a moment while testifying at his murder trial Wednesday in Jackson County Circuit Court.

Recently installed black plastic piping in a Talent Irrigation District canal near Morton Street alarmed Bob DiChiro and other neighbors, but city officials said the piping is temporary.

Joseph Powell is Wednesday's Facebook Friend of the Day. He was born in Sacramento, California, but grew up in Ashland.

On Feb. 6, the Ashland Daily Tidings published an article entitled, "Council to hold infrastructure spending hearing; capital improvement project list includes millions in goals." This article reports: "The proposed capital improvement projects, or CIP, list of infrastructure projects and equipment needs would cost 31 percent more than the almost ... (more)

Smoke rising from Ashland's watershed early this week was the result of a rekindled prescribed pile-burn on the western flanks of Winburn Ridge.

Anne Billeter, Rogue Valley Genealogical Society library director, has helped develop 'Mysteries in Our Backyard,' a project in which area residents research historical mysteries in Jackson County.

A fire in a recycling bin that caused significant damage to an Ashland building's exterior electrical equipment Jan.

A 50-year-old man who told police he was a medical marijuana card holder from Oregon has been arrested by police after officials found almost about five pounds worth of pot in his vehicle.

Barb Barasa was among those who worked to build her own home in the GroundWorks' Rice Park project in Ashland but dropped out of the program before finishing the project.

These comments are related to the impact of construction of the Mount Ashland ski area expansion and help explain our opposition to expansion into this basin.