Inner Peace
Inner Peace: Judgment day — or non-judgment day?
Jim Hatton: “What if we could all stop labeling each other, and ourselves, as ‘good or bad’ or ‘right or wrong’?”
April 30, 2022
Jim Hatton: “What if we could all stop labeling each other, and ourselves, as ‘good or bad’ or ‘right or wrong’?”
The husband-and-wife team of Michael Elich and Robin Goodrin Nordli star in Rogue Theater Company’s production of “Chapatti,” which opens Thursday, May 5. The two are longtime Oregon Shakespeare Festival favorites, as is the play’s director, Robynn Rodriguez. The three have a total of 69 years of OSF experience.
A man seen breaking into a car parked at an Ashland residence who drew a gun when confronted by the vehicle owner on Wednesday was arrested Thursday, police report. The vehicle owner told police he saw someone removing items from his vehicle and confronted the man, who then drew a handgun on the victim and told him to back away, then fled the area on foot, taking the man’s property with him.
Herbert Rothschild: “Just as white people have been afforded the blessings of freedom more readily and completely than peoples of color at home, abroad U.S. behavior has been marked by an even grosser disparity. We have championed democracy and human rights in Europe; too often we have subverted or crushed them elsewhere.”
The Burger King is gone; long live the Dairy Queen. DQ opens Friday, April 29, at the former site of the BK franchise at Exit 19 that burned down in the Almeda Fire in 2020.
Fall enrollees will pay more to attend Southern Oregon University in the 2022-2023 academic year, trustees decided at a board meeting Friday, April 22. Tuition for an Oregon resident undergraduate will go up 3.98%, to a total of $9,405 for the three academic terms, up $360 from $9,045.
Smoke and flames may be visible from the slopes near Pompadour Bluff just east of Ashland through Saturday this week, but there’s no cause for concern. Jackson County Fire District 5 and Southern Oregon Land Conservancy are cooperating on a “Burn to Learn” operation, giving firefighter trainees practice in extinguishing a house fire and other situations.
Nearly 18 months after the devastating Almeda Fire destroyed her downtown Talent business, Bonnie K. Morgan is cobbling together more than $1 million to rebuild. She’ll host an “Art of the Fire” art show Saturday at the shell of the historic Malmgren Garage.
A white Jackson County man accused of killing a black teenager in Ashland in 2020 has been given a new trial date for next February after his first trial was postponed. Robert Paul Keegan, 49, of Talent, is scheduled for a 14-day trial beginning Feb. 27, 2023, for the killing of Aidan Ellison, 19, of Ashland, outside a local hotel.
Artist Jennifer Corio explained the story behind the historical events and railroad workers that shaped Golden Connections, Ashland’s newest public art installation, at a dedication ceremony Saturday in Railroad Park attended by about 80 people.
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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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