A Democrat and an Independent are running against two Republican incumbents for Jackson County commissioner during the Nov. 8 general election. Three, including a candidate from Ashland, will appear on the May 17 primary ballot.
An Ashland nonprofit helping women recover from the rigors of breast cancer treatment through interactions with specially trained horses is looking for volunteers to assist with horses during sessions as well as behind the scenes with fund-raising events, public relations and outreach into the Rogue Valley community.
Amuse, a French-inspired, Pacific Northwest restaurant, will close in April, 22 years after opening on First Street and quickly taking a place atop Ashland dining-out pyramid.
Oregon House Rep. Pam Marsh sits in a good spot to drive state-level climate action in Salem. She provided a climate action recap for Ashland.news readers from the just-inked 2022 session.
Rothschild: If national security strategists knew Putin would invade Ukraine under the same circumstances as he did Georgia and still refused to offer the one thing Putin repeatedly indicated would make a difference, then they wanted him to invade.
An Oregon project to turn hotels into temporary housing is getting a second infusion of cash after the first round, which started in Ashland, added nearly 900 units, increasing the state’s supply of shelter beds by 20%.
Noted sleuth Pepper Trail has hung up his lab coat. This detective practiced his craft for 23 years at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Forensics Laboratory in Ashland. As its chief forensic ornithologist, Trail cracked cases by identifying birds from bits of feather or bone.
Nearly 5,800 miles separate Ashland from western Ukraine, but a letter of shared hope and solidarity between an Ashland peace leader and Ukrainian Rotarians in the war-torn eastern European country aims to narrow the gap just a little bit.
Approximately 80 dead and dying pine trees will be removed near the Red Queen Trailhead starting Monday, March 14, the City of Ashland has announced. A western pine beetle infestation in trees to the southeast of the intersection of Ashland Loop Road and Terrace Street has killed or is killing the trees.
With below freezing temperatures expected this week, Ashland’s emergency severe weather shelter will open again at 5 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday.
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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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