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The Ashland Emergency Food Bank collected 24,500 pounds of food in February from city residents who put those bright-green food bags on their doorsteps every two months for the Ashland Food Project — but the pantry expects it still would…

There will be twice as much local produce on the table this year for the Southern Oregon University community grown by its own Center for Sustainability, which expects to nearly double its level of food production thanks to a major donation…

Oregon Cabaret Theatre will celebrate its new beginnings with some sweet memories. The opening show for the Cabaret’s 30th season — the first for new artistic director Valerie Rachelle — is “Dames at Sea,” the first show produced when a…

Posted Feb. 14, 2015 @ 12:01 am Stephen Klineberg, a sociologist at Rice who conducted the annual Houston Area Survey, was in demand as a public speaker. A point he often made was that well-paying unskilled and semi-skilled jobs in…

Varsity Theatre Feb. 13-19 Still Alice Fri.-Sun. early show: 1:30 Daily showtimes: 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 One Academy Award nomination (best actress) — Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics…

The island nation of Madagascar and the landlocked Himalayan nation of Bhutan might seem like charming tourist attractions. Travelers might want to think twice before visiting them, though. A recent Health Risk index by International SOS…

Posted Jan. 31, 2015 @ 2:00 am Updated Feb 2, 2015 at 9:31 AM Despite historically high graduation rates from our public schools — 81 percent in 2011-2012, the latest for which comprehensive data are available — we often hear elected…

They came from virtually every corner of the Rogue Valley business community — from private companies to nonprofit organizations, from the chamber of commerce to the Rogue Valley Transportation District — all flocking to Ashland, all asking…

Posted Jan. 17, 2015 at 2:00 AM Updated Feb 12, 2015 at 6:20 PM The South in which I grew up prided itself on its courtesy. The “Howdy” and “Y’all come back and see us” did make daily interactions more gentle than, say, in New Jersey.…

By Angela Decker For the Tidings Posted Jan. 13, 2015 at 8:20 PM Updated Jan 14, 2015 at 10:32 AM In 1960s Alabama, teenager Geneva Craig was jailed, beaten, tear-gassed and threatened, yet she was determined to fight for social…