“In a flashing moment of terror, the ice began to give way. Spirit Lake was very deep, very cold. The two of us in the lead, with the added weight of carrying the backpacks, were breaking through.”
Legendary Southern Oregon University wrestling coach Bob Riehm’s influence at SOU and within the wrestling program will continue in perpetuity, with a $3 million donation from his estate announced Saturday morning that ranks as the largest-ever single gift to the university.
Students returned to Ashland High School this week, after the campus closed for two weeks due to having more than 85 staff absent district-wide, with more than 20% staffing shortage at AHS at one point, according to Ashland School District Superintendent Samuel Bogdanove.
Ashland, a historical hotbed of both the logging industry and environmental activism, has become an unlikely success story. Since 2010, the partners carrying out Ashland’s plan — the Ashland Forest Resiliency Stewardship Project — have thinned trees and brush from nearly 15,000 acres and conducted controlled burns on 1,500 acres.
Stemming the tide of immigration depends on curbing the behavior that drives people to seek refuge in the very nation that is the primary cause of their misery.
The 2022 Oregon Cabaret Theatre season launches Wednesday, Feb. 10, with “Moon Over Buffalo” by Ken Ludwig, “a big, fun comedy, a theater farce about theater people, hilarious,” as Cabaret Managing Director Rick Robinson describes it.
Ashland residents have two weeks to apply to fill the vacancy on the Ashland Parks & Recreation Commission left by the resignation of longtime Commissioner Mike Gardiner.
Oregon legislators returned to Salem on Tuesday morning with a long list of policies to change and pet projects to fund, and 35 days to do it all.
Changes in our transportation structure would help improve equity and housing options for Ashland residents and workers and also benefit the climate.
The public can hear a report on how Ashland is working to create safer communities and healthier forests. Chris Chambers, Ashland Fire & Rescue Wildfire Division Chief, will provide the update via Zoom starting at noon Thursday, Feb. 3, as part of the Rotary Club of Ashland’s weekly program.
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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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