Rothschild: It was the Holocaust that prompted the U.N. to adopt the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, because it was perceived as uniquely awful among all the awful cruelties humans inflict on one another.
An Ashland man arrested last month for allegedly assaulting a stranger due to the victim’s racial heritage has had numerous run-ins with police recently, including allegations of property crimes and the repeated stalking of a local woman.
Laura Paxson: “As I approached 50, crisis clichés clattered into place. My sons no longer ‘needed’ me. My crumbling marriage fell apart. I floundered into middle age and the great ‘Now What?’ I eventually stumbled into hiking and found a kind of peace.”
Ashland boosters in the early 1920s would have none of building a hotel the same size as those of rival towns; they would build the tallest building between San Francisco and Portland!
Two accidents in three days took down a pair of Ashland landmarks. Ashland Police say the destruction of the Lights for Life tree on Siskiyou Boulevard early Saturday and the Lithia Park sign Monday evening both resulted in drivers being booked on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol, among other charges.
With snow, rain showers and low overnight temperatures forecast for most of the week, the City of Ashland opened an emergency severe weather shelter on Monday afternoon at Pioneer Hall at 73 Winburn Way, across from Lithia Park.
Retired professor Stephen (Steve) Paul Cross, born in Santa Monica, California, to parents Louise and Jack Cross, died March 28.
John Darling: “Oregon, he explained, was kind of laid out in four bands. Left to right, you have the coast, then the western valleys along I-5, which is what most people think of as Oregon (lots of firs and hills), then the mountains, then the two-thirds of Oregon which is desert, a fact which almost no one outside Oregon knows.”
Ashland Schools Foundation seeks to raise $100,000 by April’s end to support next school year’s grant-giving to improve educational opportunities in Ashland School District schools.
A dedication ceremony for Ashland Railroad Park’s newest public art installation, Golden Connections, is planned for noon Saturday, April 23, at the park. The large metal artwork has a large golden spike driven into an 11-foot diameter iron circle.
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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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