A 25-minute video of a talk on “Black Freethinkers” originally delivered at the 2021 convention of the Freedom from Religion Foundation will be followed by discussion as the Jefferson Center Salon Series continues from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday, April 10, on Zoom.
After a two-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Rotary Easter Egg Hunt is set to return to Lithia Park in Ashland on Easter Sunday, April 17.
Relocations columnist Herbert Rothschild asks: “Should our secession from Great Britain be taken as the exception? Or the rule?”
Water deliveries are “more than likely” for patrons of Talent Irrigation District this season, but with the potential for an historically shorter period, if it happens at all, Mike Winters, president of the district board of directors, said at a board meeting Tuesday.
High school students recently helped Ashland-based nonprofit Lomakatsi Restoration Project restore areas of Bear Creek near Ashland Pond that were burned by the 2020 Almeda Fire. Working in partnership with United Way of Jackson County on March 19, a dozen youth from Phoenix High School and Armadillo Technical Institute braved a light rain to plant native trees and shrubs along the Bear Creek Greenway.
Four controlled burns are planned for Tuesday, April 5, the City of Ashland announced Monday. Conditions permitting, burns will be in the area of Siskiyou Mountain Park, Park Street, Lithia Park hillside and Ashland Mine Road.
Michael Niemann: “Russia’s own internal contradictions have fostered the dispossession of millions of Russians which created the need for a horrendous distraction. That’s why I think a different NATO policy would have had little impact on Putin’s decision to attack.”
Lynn McDonald: “I am not a golfer, but when I saw St. Andrews’s in Scotland, it was dry, rocky and surely did not look like what we are used to seeing. Perhaps our western golf courses could do OK with some readjustment.”
Matt Witt: “Communities in the rural West can stand up to giant outside gas companies, if they work together despite their differences. That’s how the Jordan Cove gas pipeline project was finally killed in Oregon by a coalition of conservative ranchers and farmers, climate activists, Indigenous tribal leaders, anglers and coastal residents.”
Heavy rain on New Year’s Eve 1996 brought flooding to Ashland as 1997 dawned, including the downtown Plaza area, causing $50 million in property damage and displacing 1,500 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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