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By Mercedes Binh Ly Tidings Correspondent Briana Lescher With the help of the local community, Briana Lescher will embark on a spiritual journey to India this fall. The 18-year-old graduate of Ashland High School is seizing the…

Alcohol may have been a factor in a car wreck near Mount Ashland that killed 11-year-old Dametri Martin of Medford, according to Jackson County Sgt. Dace Cochran and friend of the family Mike Standard, who was at a campfire with them just…

A child died in a car accident on Mount Ashland this morning. His family was driving on a logging road on the south side of the mountain near Forest Road 20 when the car left the road and plunged 1,000 feet over the steep embankment,…

s: A legacy of Ashland tunes It was 5 p.m. on a Friday in 1979 as scores of us met at Jazmin& s, there to wind down from the week with hors d& oeuvres, cocktails and the wide-ranging conversations as cliques and groupings…

June 10, 2005 Mourning Leah By Jennifer Squires Ashland Daily Tidings Leah Castillo celebrates during the graduation ceremony on June 3 just hours before she was killed in a car accident. (Click here for the photo gallery…

Currently in the construction business there are pretty much two different ways one can build a house, according to inventor and carpenter David Ward. Inventor David Ward explains the operation of his Strawjet machine, which uses a…

By Robert Plain Ashland Daily Tidings After months and months of pleasant conversation, business wrangling and downright horse-trading, the City of Phoenix, Home Depot and the Oregon Department of Transportation have reached the final…

Joanie Mcgowan 1956-2005 By Jennifer Squires Ashland Daily Tidings A body discovered on the Bear Creek Greenway near Eagle Mill and Valley View roads has been identified as local comedian and actress Joanie McGowan. She had been…

By Don Hunt For the Tidings A handful of wrestlers at Crater and Grants Pass high schools have been diagnosed with herpes, athletic directors at both schools confirmed Thursday. The Crater wrestlers apparently contracted the viral…

August 4, 2004 By Emily Morris Tidings Correspondent Croquet is associated with old-world etiquette, or was for some people, until driving by last night's city council meeting, where a group of nude croquet players gathered for mint…