Joe Zavala
Ashland Tidings
Medford, OR, United States
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Tennis players have options after club shutters
The number of indoor tennis courts in the Medford area took a sizable hit when the Rogue Valley Swim and Tennis Club closed its doors Dec. 31 to make way → Read More
Saying farewell to the Tidings
I had just settled into a fold-up chair behind home plate at North Mountain Park one ordinary late-spring afternoon when a man I vaguely recognized began → Read More
If you build it...
To Ashland Middle School assistant wrestling coach Marty Downs, wrestling, at its most fundamental level, stripped of fat and nuance, is really just “one human being imposing their will upon another.”Downs’ description likely rings true to anyone familiar with the sport, but it also happens to be an appropriate characterization of a man — in this case, Ashland High School wrestling coach Adam… → Read More
Three 100-mile runs in six weeks
Sharon Mosley has been a competitive athlete for her entire adult life and, as such, has grown accustomed to pushing her body to its limit in pursuit of a → Read More
SOU enrollment bucks the trend
Southern Oregon University’s efforts to combat the enrollment effects of rising tuition costs with an increased focus on recruitment and retention appear to be paying off.SOU saw a slight bump in enrollment this fall compared with fall term 2016 and was one of two Oregon public universities to experience gains in full-time equivalent enrollment. Those figures are considered crucial for… → Read More
Do or die time
You don’t go 10-0 during the regular season without attracting a few bandwagon-hoppers along the way, and while Pete Stanton isn’t likely to label himself a Southern Oregon Raiders fan, he’s not afraid to confess his admiration for SOU’s physicality.For the time being, Stanton’s impression is based entirely on game film, but on Saturday, Dickinson State’s head football coach will see the Raiders… → Read More
Siskiyou School braces for WinterFaire
True, it’ll raise a little money, maybe more than a little depending on the weather. But really, says The Siskiyou School’s director of development Katie LaCroix, the annual WinterFaire is much more than a fundraiser.“It is a fundraiser,” she said, “but the primary goal is for the community to come to this event. It’s a family friendly, old fashioned, and offers a way for families to get… → Read More
Novices shine for speech and debate team
The school year may be only two-and-a-half months old, but it’s already been a memorable season for the Ashland High School speech and debate team. → Read More
SOU: Watch out for spiked drinks
Southern Oregon University Director of Campus Public Safety and Parking Fred Creek warned students last week through social media and a mass email that → Read More
SOU's botanical tour goes digital
She may look stately and benign, but in its life-or-death struggle for elbow room the juglans nigra (a.k.a. black walnut tree) which sits in front of Southern Oregon University’s Plunkett Center on the corner of Siskiyou Boulevard and Mountain Avenue wields a secret weapon deployed just below the surface. It secretes toxic chemicals through its roots to poison the plants around it, eliminating… → Read More
Out with the old
The Ashland Schools Foundation has raised $350,000 toward restoring Ashland High School’s dilapidated track and needs to find $20,000 more in the next two weeks to move forward on a project that unofficially began with the removal of the track’s surface last week.Robert W. Julian Track and Field was closed to the public in May after a risk management company deemed it unsuitable for use, and the… → Read More
SOU kicks off new program
When Craig Switzler arrived in Ashland three years ago to take a job as an athletic trainer at Southern Oregon University, a couple things about the local → Read More
Grizzlies fare well at national speech and debate tourney
Recent Ashland High graduate Gracia Dodds advanced to the 11th round in Lincoln-Douglas Debate and finished in the top 30 overall to lead the school's → Read More
Local candidate picked to replace longtime Rogue Valley Farm to School director
Rogue Valley Farm to School has hired former Lomakatsi Restoration Project Director of Development Sheila Carder as its next executive director, the local → Read More
OLLI opens its doors
Most people like to take it easy on their birthday, sleep in, eat out, maybe catch a movie.Not Margaret Pashko. The vice president for the Osher Lifelong → Read More
Big Al's returns for 42nd showing in Ashland
Gail Patton has been playing and teaching tennis in the Rogue Valley for so long she knows just about everything there is to know about the sport, from → Read More
Headed to the Hall
Tito Soriano still remembers his first trip to Japan for the Pacific Rim Bowl. It’s hard to forget. Besides walking through buildings that are centuries older than any in the U.S. and touring the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, the assistant football coach and former player was humbled even before leaving Ashland, having lost his passport.As a Grizzly player, Scott Chadick had a similarly… → Read More
Summer school
American Legion A is supposed to be the developmental arm of the summer baseball league, and that’s precisely what the Ashland Pilots aim to do this summer: develop talent.The Pilots boast one of the youngest rosters in team history as they continue their season today at home with an Area 4 South doubleheader against North Jackson. The first game is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. at North Mountain… → Read More
Ashland High School speech and debate team headed to nationals
Twelve students and two coaches from Ashland High School's speech & debate team are headed to Birmingham, Alabama, for the National Speech & → Read More
Looking back, looking forward
Docents from the New York Museum of Modern Art hosted a group of men and women from an assisted living facility last summer, showing off works of art in → Read More