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County workers get hefty raises
More than a dozen nonunion Jackson County workers have received raises of more than $10,000 this year.
Another 20 workers got raises between $5,000 and $10,000.
Approximately 76 nonunion workers received raises totaling more than…
Lending a plate to help save the planet
Inspired by the ghastly sight of dumpsters overflowing with plastic dinnerware after weddings, meetings, concerts and parties, two Ashland Master Recyclers have started a “dish library” where, for free, you can pick up full dinner place…
Invention awaits you at Talent Maker City
TALENT — A makerspace that will encourage local entrepreneurs and supply them with tools, equipment and space is close to opening its first component.
The space will eventually allow budding inventors to create prototypes, take…
Getting much more than their feet wet
Actor-director Barret O’Brien is taking a year off the Oregon Shakespeare Festival to take action against climate change — “the biggest challenge ever to face humanity” — and the result is his play “Water Made to Rise,” an ironic and pithy…
National hunger strike rolls through Ashland
Smoke may seem to be all that’s on everyone’s minds, but for fasters in the #Hungry4Justice hunger strike currently in Ashland it reinforces the message of their fight.
Faster Dot Fisher-Smith, an Ashland resident with a long history of…
As befits a masterpiece, ‘Snow’ can be difficult
Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s “Snow in Midsummer” is a masterpiece.
That’s not surprising. Cowhig, an internationally based playwright whose work has been staged on the West End, the Goodman Theatre, and at the Royal Shakespeare Company, among…
WasteNot: Recycling center again accepting soft plastic for recycling
Like any responsible environmentalist I have been throwing my trash into separate bins for decades, assuming that the city-contracted waste hauler was sending mixed garbage to a local landfill, and plastics, glass, and paper to American…
Dozens turn out for Plaza demonstration to stand for democracy
BY JOHN DARLING / FOR THE TIDINGS...
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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…
Ashland New Plays Festival announces winning playwrights
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.”…
High school student’s project helped others learn job — and life — skills
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…