“We are always being here now, always present, but now we enter into this consciously. We pay attention, listening to ‘this.’ The practice of listening, as an effortless receptivity, is brought to a focus of ‘This here now!'”
Ashland Fire & Rescue will be able to double its capacity for reducing forest fuels through controlled burns in the coming year and a half, thanks to state funding publicly announced today, Feb. 14.
Why aren’t sexual violence and relationship violence gone from our society? A Jackson County expert with 30-plus years of experience helping survivors of sexual violence will talk about risks, social norms, and stereotypes that encourage sexual violence during a Zoom presentation Sunday, Feb. 13.
“It was good to see the recent story about the U.S. Forest Service canceling its proposal to pave Forest Service Road 20 from the ski-area parking lot out to the Grouse Gap Shelter. Road 20, past the ski area, is a wonderful stretch of what is (and long has been) essentially a “backcountry road” — one that increasing numbers of our area’s urban residents now enjoy.”
Rachel Smith, the Klamath National Forest’s supervisor, is offering her “heartfelt thanks” to those who questioned Forest Service plans to pave Forest Road 20 near Mount Ashland. She said forest managers incorrectly believed the road, which extends from the Mount Ashland Campground to the Grouse Gap Shelter, was already paved.
An Ashland man thought to have been driving a vehicle that struck and killed a Southern Oregon University student in August has been indicted on a single felony charge, the Ashland Police Department announced Friday afternoon.
“Until now, I’ve shared this memory only with friends. What prompted me to make it more public was an opinion piece in The New York Times on February 1. In it, Amy Julia Baker explained why she’s grateful that she rejected her physician’s advice to abort when prenatal testing revealed that she would give birth to a girl with Down syndrome.”
“Conservation organizations must recognize that it is our huge presence that is causing the extinction of animals and plant life. Graphs of ‘population growth’ and ‘species loss’ go up the charts, in parallel. The growth of us equals the death of wildlife.”
New COVID-19 guidelines kick into effect today, Feb. 11, at Ashland High School, including a limit on four guests per athlete at games.
Viewpoint: If fully approved as currently proposed by Medford District BLM, the project would allow the BLM to log up to 20,000 acres and build up to 90 miles of new roads per decade without additional site-specific scientific review, public comment, public involvement or the disclosure of environmental impacts.
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Ask Strider: A worried older brother asks our advice columnist’s advice. And a dog’s guardian wants to know if there is any hope getting their hat-hating dog to calm down. As always, Strider tries to give words that help!
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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