Daily Tidings Editorial Board

BY DANNY PENZA... The relationship between Ashland and Guanajuato, Mexico, goes well beyond the current ages of every Ashland Little League player, a pact between sister cities that is closing in on its 50th birthday. This week, the two…

BY JOHN DARLING / FOR THE TIDINGS... VIEW GALLERY There have been many demonstrations against the actions of President Donald Trump’s administration, but what made Ashland’s Wednesday afternoon protest different is that is was largely…

BY JOHN DARLING FOR THE TIDINGS... Using no-interest loans, volunteer labor and sweat equity from owners, Habitat for Humanity has, until now, bought land and built homes from the ground up. That’s changed. Now they’re also doing “critical…

Ashland New Plays Festival will present four playwrights’ new works at its 27th annual festival from Oct. 17–21 at the Unitarian Center, 87 Fourth St., in Ashland. The winners are: • Ian August for “The Excavation of Mary Anning.”…

BY CAITLIN FOWLKES / FOR THE TIDINGS Ashland High School student Sierra Repp has decided to take the well-being of some of her peers into her own hands. For her summer project she partnered with Project UP, an arts initiative program for…

Ashland New Plays Festival (ANPF) will present a dramatic reading of Scott Kaiser's play "Now This" at 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 23, in the Great Hall at the Unitarian Center, 87 Fourth St. in Ashland. Kaiser is in his 26th season at the Oregon…

Ashland voters have the chance to choose majorities of the City Council and Parks & Recreation Commission, as well as a city recorder and a municipal court judge, on Nov. 6. A total of nine positions will be on the ballot, including…

Guy Fieri, the celebrity star of “Diners, Drive-ins and Dives” on the Food Network passed through Ashland Thursday. At 10:30 a.m. he tweeted, “1st stop on the family road trip to Yellowstone – Emigrant lake in Ashland, Oregon. Used to come…

Three Ashland High School seniors are among 26 Oregonians recognized as National Merit Scholars in 2018. They’ll each receive annual scholarship awards of $2,500 for college. Claire Pryor, Julian Rice and Dylan Kistler, teammates on the…

Some two dozen protesters on Monday chanted, did street theater and gave speeches in front of Ashland’s Chase Bank, charging that JPMorgan Chase is a major financial backer of Calgary-based Pembina Pipeline, which is making a third try at…