Ashland City Councilors voted Tuesday to award $235,000 in Community Development Block Grant funds to three organizations offering support services for homeless and low income people.
Chris Honoré: “I find myself searching for elusive words to describe the Russian depravity, the carnage, the charred destruction of buildings and houses, and the unprovoked executions of the innocent, all left in the wake of the Russian forces as they retreated.”
In which Peter Finkle breathes life into the “ordinary” 15 minutes that start the day, part of the “‘ordinary magnificence’ that fills each of our lives.”
More than two dozen people signed up to speak in public comment at a virtual Ashland City Council meeting on Tuesday evening, April 19, several of whom aired concerns about a new 5G tower proposed near Southern Oregon University.
The Tudor Guild, a longtime volunteer group that’s worked closely with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for 74 of the festival’s 87 years, will take on a new role in June, leading tours that give OSF visitors intimate access to the institution’s campus.
To catch a glimpse of the rare Green’s Mariposa Lily in bloom, you can visit the Mariposa Preserve in the early summer around mid-June to the beginning of July. It’s just a short drive south from Ashland to the 222-acre Mariposa Botanical Area, a designated conservation area within the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.
Ashland residents can make their surroundings safer at no cost to them, thanks to a pair of upcoming free drop-off events. Green debris drop off days are intended to reduce the risk of fire by removing flammable debris from Ashland yards, and a household hazardous waste disposal day offers the opportunity to purge homes of hazardous chemicals, batteries and sprays.
Rothschild: Democracy requires the ability to influence the formation and administration of public policy. I regard as democratic the formation and administration of U.S. domestic policy. The formation and administration of foreign policy are quite different.
The West Coast premiere of Mona Mansour’s play is among the season openers at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. Although the play is set in Istanbul and deals with the Syrian civil war, “unseen” carries added poignancy because it echoes current events in war-ravaged Ukraine.
Ashland celebrates Earth Day with four events over three days offering everything from music to giant bubbles to electric vehicles to food trucks to trash pickup. Thanks to the recent easing of pandemic restrictions, Ashlanders have a bevy of in-person events from which to choose on Friday, Saturday and two on Sunday.
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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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