Ashland News

For nearly two years, a legislative interim work group and the Senate Education and Workforce Development Committee worked on a structure to allow Oregon's universities to set up institutional boards, providing them with more autonomy, deeper connections with their communities and -- especially -- opportunities for fundraising.

The 17-year-old shredder from Ashland has been building his own axes and wailing on them since middle school, because "he who dies with the most guitars wins," he says.

When people ask any of the members of 4 Lazy Dudes what kind of music they play, they are usually surprised when the response is, "a hip-hop group."

Evo's Coffee Lounge customers who consumed a "Radically Free" smoothie from the Ashland coffeehouse between May 17 and June 12 of this year may have been exposed to hepatitis A, Jackson County Health Department officials reported.

A girl believed to be autistic was walking naked along the shoulder of Interstate 5 early Sunday just north of Ashland, according to the Oregon State Police.

The Ashland City Council will tackle homeless issues, adopt a two-year city budget, and decide whether the city should cover health insurance costs for its own employees rather than paying an outside insurance company to provide coverage.

Nearly two-dozen stagecoaches, covered wagons and buggies were lined up early Saturday morning on a Greensprings mountain meadow at the historic Box R Ranch, ready to roll.

That would have been Dick Webb, the Williams Elementary School principal, a great educator and all-around good guy.

While taking photos recently in Ashland, a passerby asked, "Do you know anything about that statue?" Well, yes we do.

Townsend Farms in Fairview recalled its Organic Antioxidant Blend in a hepatitis A outbreak that's sickened nearly 100 so far.

After a nearly four-decade career in education, outgoing School District No. 6 Superintendent Randy Gravon likes to joke that he's "been going to school for 56 years."

But that superficial observation instantly melts away when the youthfully energetic members of the rock 'n roll band Rewind - drummer John Morrison, bass guitar player George Gleim and Diane Carter on keyboard - get warmed up.

Compared with other states, Oregon kills it when it comes to top-notch cycling infrastructure, from scenic bikeways to bike boulevards.

Oregon has a long way to go, Southern Oregon especially, to meet the state's goal of sending 80 percent of high school graduates to post-secondary schools, local educators say.

In the late '50s, Don Squire purchased a 1951 MG TD - a British sports car he had long admired - for $4,000 from a lot on Central Avenue and Jackson Street.

For a two-week stretch, Ashland poet Amy Miller found something special delivered each day to her mailbox - a poem written on a postcard.

The owners of the Box R Ranch in the Greensprings area east of Ashland are closing their guest accommodations and will auction their extensive collection of Western and Native American artifacts Saturday and Sunday, June 15 and 16. The collection belongs to ranch owners Don and Jean Rowlett, who plan to close the Box R's guest-ranch operations in ... (more)

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is reaching out to support one of the most beloved African American theater companies in the nation with a reading of August Wilson's "Radio Golf," at 7 p.m. Monday, June 24 in the Angus Bowmer Theatre.

North Mountain Park will have a class and walk to teach about edible and medicinal plants from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, June 15, at the park's Nature Center, 620 N. Mountain Ave., Ashland.

Tejas Heyden, 17, on his handmade "hybrid Stratocaster," and his alt-rock band Chapter II, formerly Random Sound, will perform at 9:30 p.m. Friday, June 14, at Northwest Pizza and Pasta Co., 1585 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland.