Ashland Fire & Rescue recently held badge-pinning ceremonies for current firefighters on two shifts who were promoted into new positions within the department.
Woods: “Why care? Because there’s never been an authoritarian government that had potential for freedom. Democracy may be imperfect, but without democracy, there’s no possibility of freedom.”
Rothschild: “Neither media rhetoric nor my belief in nonviolence constitutes a basis for actionable judgment. Objectively, persons are criminals only if they violate accepted legal prohibitions.”
City department heads are due to submit plans to cut their department’s budget in the next fiscal year to Ashland City Manager Joe Lessard by April 15, and restrictions on nonessential travel and filling vacant positions are effective April 1, Lessard says in a memo sent late Wednesday to department directors, city councilors and Parks & Recreation Commission commissioners.
Hatton: “The greatest challenge for Western traditions and Western minds is moving from a concept of god as a separate deity outside of ourselves to the concept that we humans, the animals and the physical universe are all created by god becoming its creation.”
Commissioner Landt: The Ashland City Council made a mistake by overruling the Parks & Recreation Commission’s decision to increase fees on the Lithia Artisans Market for the first time since 2017.
It took two extra years, but the doors to the extensively remodeled Osher Lifelong Learning Institute complex in the Campbell Center on the Southern Oregon University campus swung open to students for classes on Monday, March 28.
Southern Oregon University faculty and administration negotiators have reached a tentative agreement on terms that, according to a union statement, “effectively presents a potential contract,” averting a vote on whether to strike that would have taken place in the next month had an agreement not been reached.
The last two years have been a journey rife with conflict and hardship. Ashland artist Betty LaDuke’s newest exhibit reflects those themes and, threaded throughout it all, the need for hope. “Fire, Fury, & Resilience: Totem Witnesses and Turtle Wisdom” continues through May 20 at Grants Pass Museum of Art.
A longtime Ashland volunteer died Tuesday after, while loading meals to deliver to housebound seniors, he was struck shortly after 10 a.m. by a vehicle when its driver mistakenly slammed on the accelerator instead of the brake pedal, according to police.
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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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