Incoming freshmen at nearly all of Oregon’s public universities will pay more for tuition this fall as schools struggle with inflation and budget deficits. Southern Oregon University’s Board of Trustees meets at noon Friday, April 22, to discuss options.
Oregon Shakespeare Festival has launched what it hopes will be its first full season since 2019 with lower prices, an extended season and an emphasis on access, agility and artists.
Matt Witt: “The Talent Urban Renewal Agency plan focuses on making Talent more affordable for its residents, bringing back small businesses after the Almeda Fire, and making the community better prepared to prevent and withstand future fires.”
Hirsch: “Feel the play of inhale and exhale as a play between the infinitesimal and the infinite, the inhale opening into the infinitesimal and the exhale opening into the infinite. On the inhales, feel that the infinite is condensing into the infinitesimal, and on the exhales, feel that the infinitesimal is expanding into the infinite.”
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “In the Heights” musical about the closely knit community of Washington Heights previews Thursday at Oregon Cabaret Theatre.
Bob Kaplan: “It’s been a cold wet week. We need the precipitation, so I’m happy. But looking out my window at the rain and snow every day, I keep thinking about our unhoused neighbors, whose number has grown in our county and state since last year.”
Starting Monday, new Oregon Shakespeare Festival Volunteer Coordinator Sarah Grulikowski will be rebuilding a volunteer corps that stood at more than 700 volunteers when COVID-19 pandemic closures began in March 2020.
A mixed-use development planned between Helman and Water streets in Ashland has been denied by the city’s Planning Commission, a decision in line with the recommendation of the city’s Historic Commission.
Ashland Parks & Recreation Commission is prepared to make between 5 and 10% cuts to its park services budget, as directed by Ashland City Manager Joe Lessard. Oak Knoll Golf Course could close, and the number of temporary employees could be slashed.
Ashland tourism has a new brand and a fresh strategy, thanks to a visitor study released earlier this month that outlines a more personalized advertising approach that reaches out to new visitors identified by research conducted on behalf of Travel Ashland
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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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