Move surprises many of chief’s supporters

ASD bond options on the table at Wednesday meeting
The three options for a general obligation bond under consideration by the Ashland School District will be presented at an open house Wednesday at the Ashland Public Library

Community Access Television Awards honor a variety of programs

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Photo editor Orville Hector welcomes you to the O-Zone. Check it out each week and see what "O" is up to when he isn't shooting news and sports.

A place for Ian
For Katie Larive, of Ashland, the birth of her son Ian was long and difficult, spanning the Labor Day weekend of 1992. But in the end, Katie marveled at her small son. “He was a beautiful, healthy boy, a sweet, beautiful face and golden hair. He smiled constantly. He rarely cried during the first two years of his life, and he smiled pretty much every day.”

Mon: Essentially Ashland
Terry Skibby’s Treasure Trove

Mon: Tales From The Crib
And then, they are teenagers

Mon: From Denmark
Cartoons shatter Danes’ feeling of safety

Tues: Off The Vine
Evaluating wine is a personal act

Weds: Food & History
The Boiled General

Thurs: Sustainability
Every Oregon home can support clean electricity

Fri: I'll Shut Up — Right After This
Bonobo – it’s not an ice cream flavor

Fri: Healthy Pets
Royal Canin recalls some lines of pet food

Fri: For Your Health
Good joint pain? There’s no such thing

Sat: Marketing Today
Get familiar with your future customers

AHS Softball

Potochnik eyes new course for Grizzlies
First-year softball coach optimistic as team kicks off its SOC schedule

AHS Roundup

Ashland High boys hoops coach, swim coach resign

Opinion & Editorial

— LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

— LETTER: at length

— EDITORIAL

Bianca’s role as symbol not enough
From the outset, the issues surrounding the tenure of Ashland Police Chief Mike Bianca were far more complex than could ever be fully handled within the court of public opinion, in large part because Bianca was a symbol every bit as much as he was a chief. ...

— OPINION PAGE POLICY

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From the Right Side

Mike Green

Secular is insufficient

By reason we can divine our own path through life, gleaning knowledge and wisdom from a variety of experiences (both good and bad) that assist in directing and bringing us ever closer to an understanding that all living creatures are deserving of dignity and respect. This concept, as espoused by many who purport to be secularists, is seemingly benevolent and benign.

Unfortunately, it is insufficient as an overall model protocol, doctrine or philosophy. ...

CASE IN POINT (OPED)
Updated Mondays:

— Case In Point:
Culture clash plays out badly for some

No question, the written word is a glorious thing. To imagine a life without it, without fiction, exposition, even the truncated phraseology of emails and texting is to feel life being leached of its richness. ...

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BUS STOP

Having launched OSF’s 2006 season with her own production of Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale,” Libby Appel now tackles another and very different winter’s tale. It is William Inge’s 1956 gem, “Bus Stop,” that plays in the Bowmer through Oct. 29.

In Review | The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Cowboy speaks volumes by saying little

A tale of humanity, in perfect balance
As that wonderful, and yet again wonderful, quintessential Jewish grandmother, Bubbie, might say, “What’s not to like?”

Well, nothing. “Crossing Delancey” is all good.

Movies | T.V. | Calendar

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The fifth Annual Ashland Independent Film Festival will feature 82 films Thursday April 6 through April 10 at the Varsity Theatre downtown and this year, for the first time the Festival will hold special film events at the Historic Ashland Armory and ScienceWorks Museum.

Using energy, creating art
Staci Ohayon has been living and painting in Ashland since she moved from her Israel home last September, taking her teaching sabbatical to be near her son, Alon, who is taking a year off between high school graduation and compulsory military duty at home to work with teens from Ashland’s two synagogues.

Grandmothers honored
All-day event offers wisdom, community

Lifetime achievement Award recipient

MORE LOCAL ENTERTAINMENT

Movies: Now playing

Poetry often pierces to the heart of ethics

“When Nazim Hikmet, the Turkish poet who spent half his adult life in prison, speaks of Spring coming and the sun rising, you can sense that he is seeing Spring coming through a barred window.”

Church Listings

Ashland residents traveling nationwide and around the globe provide first-person accounts of their travels, complete with pictures to share their adventures with the Tidings' readers. *Note: The stories below are submitted by local residents traveling outside of Oregon. These submissions are not changed on a regular basis, but will be replaced as other submissions are received. Enjoy.

FEMA Experience in Texas
I was invited by FEMA to act as a Public Information Officer (PIO) in a volunteer capacity.

Mis queridos
This is my first e-mail and I write it not from Syria but from South Lebanon.

New Orleans: Up Close and Personal
I returned to my hometown of New Orleans on Oct. 6 to view the devastation and assist my displaced family.

The impact of the Gulf Coast tragedy on Native Americans