City to keep AFN, dump TV

Ashland City Councilors have decided to put their faith in the business savvy of the Ashland Fiber Network’s new leader. On Tuesday night, the council unanimously endorsed Information Technology Director Joe Franell’s recommendation to…

New AFN director approved

For the first time in its history, the Ashland Fiber Network has its own leader. An Ashland City Council majority confirmed the appointment of Joseph Franell as Information Technology Director on Tuesday night. Franell will head AFN…

A Long Way From Home

By Jennifer Margulis Tidings Correspondent Sporting black cowboy boots, jeans and a white button-down shirt, 29-year-old Matthew “Mateo” Paneitz doesn’t look like the kind of guy you would want to hold up at gunpoint. Six feet 2 inches…

Ire rises over fee increase

By Vickie Aldous Ashland Daily Tidings Nova Gregg survives on a caregiver’s salary by going without a car, cable television and Internet service. She doesn’t understand why she should be paying $7.50 more per month on her electricity…

Car plunge kills child

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,…

Essentially Ashland

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…

Mourning Leah

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…