The festival began as a two-play production on July 2, 1935, performing the two Shakespearean plays. Ashland’s grant was with the stipulation, however, that afternoon boxing matches would also be held to help cover costs. The festival succeeded so well that the theater ticket revenues covered the boxing matches’ losses.
Hundreds turned out for a vigil on Ashland Plaza on Jan. 6, the one-year anniversary of the insurrection at the nation’s Capitol.
State statistics show Ashland High School dipped just under 3 percent, to 91.24 percent for the 2020-21 school year, the first full school-year impacted by COVID-19 restrictions, off from a 93.97 percent graduation rate for the prior year.
Almost one-third of adults in our county remain unvaccinated. How is one to think about such behavior? How one feels about it is a different matter. Emotions arise spontaneously.
Ashland Mayor Julie Akins delivered her State of the City address at Tuesday’s council meeting, saying in part, “We need to diversify our sources of income. We need to manage our budget as well. A thriving economy is good for everyone. So is facing where we are and doing what needs to be done.”
Ashland Fire & Rescue plans to hire six additional firefighters in 2023 if they are awarded a $3 million federal grant.
Record numbers of new COVID-19 cases are being recorded daily, pushing the local testing capacity to its limit, Jackson County Health & Human Services announced in a news release Wednesday, Jan. 19.
A suspect accused of firing a shot into another car during a road rage encounter on Interstate 5 on Friday, Jan. 14, cooperated when he was arrested Tuesday, Jan. 18.
The Private Forest Accord is a huge deal for Oregon’s forests. It is a giant step forward to better protect Oregon’s forests and streams. Forests — the lungs of the planet — can breathe a little easier if the Accord passes the Oregon legislature.
Southern Oregon University’s new president, Richard “Rick” J. Bailey Jr., is officially at the helm at the Ashland campus and excited to apply his entrepreneurial mindset as he learns more about the university and its priorities, he said at a virtual news conference Tuesday.
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After a successful production of “The Vagina Monologues” and raising more than $2,000 for Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon, Ashland actor and director Lia Dugal intends for “The Climate Monologues” to premiere in Oregon in late 2025 or early 2026 at the Bellview Grange in Ashland.
It’s complicated.
Herbert Rothschild: Whether visualization and intention by themselves can effect broad social change is impossible to determine, but the question merits sustained consideration.
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