The reaction has been overwhelmingly positive, said Students for Truth Director and display organizer Danny Moffat. But the flags stretched across the SOU lawn scream 'blame' to some, including recent veterans who served in Iraq.
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The Ashland Fiber Network will be able to contribute more money than projected toward its debt despite the slowing economy.
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The Ashland Family YMCA will host Healthy Kids Day on Saturday, May 3, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 540 YMCA Way.
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Ashland Middle School students took first place overall at the 25th annual Pentagames Mathematics Contest on April 25.
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Jackson County ranks as one of the cleanest places in the U.S. for a pollutant that causes smog, the American Lung Association found.
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Carrying American flags and crosses representing immigrants who died trying to enter the U.S., scores of Hispanics and others rallied in Alba Park in downtown Medford Thursday to call attention to immigration issues and the need for legislative reforms.
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Parents swarmed the halls of Ashland Middle School during Thursday evening's Bear Fair, going from classroom to classroom to view students' work.
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A week after Hillary Rodham Clinton issued what she called her 'Oregon Compact,' her Democratic presidential opponent, Barack Obama, issued his own set of priorities he will pursue on Oregon's behalf if he wins the presidency.
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The Ashland High girls doubles team advanced three singles players and one doubles team to the second day of the District 4 tennis tournament Thursday in Ashland.
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shland High alumna Rachel Sohl will be the starting hooker for the Brown University rugby team today when it faces No. 1-ranked Penn State in the NCAA Division I Final Four.
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The Detroit team that showed up for the first four games of the playoffs was in trouble against the Philadelphia 76ers.
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Kevin Durant was so excited to learn he had just won the NBA Rookie of the Year award, he went back to sleep.
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Hungry Afghans looking for their next meal eye bread scraps piled up like heaps of trash at a Kabul market as a vendor weighs out fistfuls of the stale crusts on a scale. A Pashtun woman waits with an empty plastic sack.
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A woman convicted two weeks ago of being the 'D.C. Madam' hanged herself Thursday, apparently making good on her vow never to go to prison for running a high-end Washington prostitution ring.
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Anyone who can trace breast cancer in the family, or sickle cell anemia, Lou Gehrig's or some other affliction, will be understandably concerned about a genetic test showing a predisposition for debilitating diseases.
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Federal authorities have declared the West Coast ocean salmon fishery a failure, opening the way for Congress to appropriate economic disaster assistance for coastal communities in California, Oregon and Washington.
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Sixty years ago the democratic state of Israel was established in the Middle East. Havurah Shir Hadash Synagogue and Temple Emek Shalom in Ashland are collaborating with Rev. Ron Timens of Rivergate Church and other Jewish and non-Jewish organizations in Southern Oregon to celebrate the pluralistic, multi-ethnic and multi-religious nation of seven million people.
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For years now, Martique Lorray, former owner of Evo's and co-creator of the Briscoe Art Wing, has been well known as an entrepreneurial hipster and patron of the arts. Now Lorray herself, at 31, is finally beginning her own career as a professional artist.
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Rogue Community College will present William Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice,' opening May 9 at The Warehouse in downtown Medford.
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Camelot Theatre Company will present the third production in its 2008 season: Brian Friel's 'Dancing at Lughnasa,' winner of the 1992 Tony Award for Best Play.
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The duo Caballito Negro will perfrom an evening of contemporary music for flute and percussion.
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The Portland Observer noted that if you take eight classic Grateful Dead tunes, add seven seasoned musicians who groove to a joyful Celtic rhythm and blend it with a healthy dose of love for both, you've got the Celtic Grateful Dead jam band Wake the Dead.
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'Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day' is light as a feather, which is not to say that it is in any way inconsequential. In fact, it's solidly entertaining.
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A listing of galleries
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Tidings editorial
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Preserve Ashland's beautiful open spaces; SOU flag display prompts reflection; Open letter to Bush on SOU flag exhibit; Touched by SOU flag exhibit; Sobering display on SOU campus; Program educates students on cyberbully issue
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Quills & Queues: By Vickie Aldous
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By Michael Barone
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The Rogue Valley's Hike of the Week: Lithia Park
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Playwright, actor and filmmaker Tyler Perry, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg are among the newsmakers on Time magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people.
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After three decades of keeping mum, Barbara Walters is disclosing a past affair with married U.S. Senator Edward Brooke, whom she remembers as 'exciting' and 'brilliant.'
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When the one-man, publicity-generating whirlwind that is Diddy met the well-oiled hype machine of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, sparks were bound to fly.
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Dear Abby
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