Ashland News

Ashland police will turn over a child pornography investigation involving Ashland resident James Auchincloss, half-brother to the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, to the Jackson County District Attorney's Office next week, the police chief said.

A nationally known author and sustainability activist will speak about building local sustainable economies in Ashland next week.

As Ashland rents appear to be climbing with the mercury, Paulo Rocha, a junior at Southern Oregon University, is heading out of town - to Talent - to save cash, he said.

A landscaping project to spruce up Blue Heron Park in Phoenix is complete, thanks to four months of fundraising, planning, recruiting, digging and mulching by Ashland Boy Scout Tanner Shumway and a small army of volunteers.

Ashland's library plans to show free family-oriented movies Tuesday afternoons throughout this month.

SING OUT FOR SINGLE PAYER ROAD SHOW TRAVELS FROM BORDER TO BORDER JULY 2-27, 2009 Frustrated that patients, nurses and doctors have been largely excluded from the debate, Anne Feeney and almost four dozen professional musicians decided to launch the Sing Out for Single Payer Road Show.

A 21-year-old woman walking home on Ashland's Siskiyou Boulevard was sexually assaulted by an unidentified man late Sunday, police said.

Actors will portray the pioneers who developed this community in the 1800s during tours of Ashland Cemetery during the weekends of July 4-5 and July 11-12. Actors will portray the pioneers who developed Ashland in the 1800s during walking tours of Ashland Cemetery the first two weekends of July.

Paintings, sculptures, air brush and ultraviolet abstract light pieces fill Ashland's newest A Street gallery, with artists from Hawaii, Santa Cruz, Calif., and right here at home.

Ashland's self-proclaimed naked man said he didn't mean to enter a school zone when children were present last month, but he isn't sorry he strolled around in the buff in other parts of the city.

The Ashland City Band kicked off another summer season of Music in the Park on Thursday at the Lithia Park band shell with an estimated 500 people in attendance.

Barely 24 hours after a two-day benefit concert raised more than $25,000 for his medical bills and the support of his family, well-known Rogue Valley musical director and chorale leader Dave Marston died of a rare brain disease.

The Kiwanis Club of Ashland has been placing flags around town on national holidays and special occasions for 28 years.

Ashland businessman and former mayor Alan DeBoer has won the Southern Oregon Historical Society's 2009 Heritage Award.

Veteran head coach Hans Voskes has been chosen to take over the Ashland High track and field program, according to Athletics Director Karl Kemper on Friday.

Nearly $26 million in combined grants, loans and tax credits to housing developers throughout the state will help fund 435 units of affordable housing, providing hundreds of low-income Oregonians a place to call home.

A screenplay based on Ashland High School students, written by a 2000 graduate, is in the semifinals of a national online contest, where it has a one-in-10 chance of being made into a feature film.

James Auchincloss was just 6 years old when he carried the wedding train of his half-sister Jackie up the aisle as she married John F. Kennedy in 1953.

The Lithia Arts Guild of Oregon and the Briscoe ArtWing will present the 5th Annual MidSummer's Dream Art & Music Festival, two days of art and music, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday June 20, and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday June 21, at the old Briscoe Elementary School, 265 North Main St., Ashland.

Editor's note: This information is posted as a courtesy to the community and not as a news item.