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May 2022

Community

Soroptimist Report: 13 scholarships and awards given at annual luncheon

Soroptimists of Ashland distributed scholarships and supportive monetary awards to 13 local female students at their first in-person annual luncheon after two years of cancellations. Several winners are mothers, several are the first in their family to graduate high school or attend college. Some recipients are women of color or the daughter of immigrant parents. All awardees are exceptional women with drive, dedication, intelligence and talent, the club reports.

May 31, 2022

Business

Last call for Standing Stone Brewing Co.

Standing Stone Brewing Co., as famous for its community spirit and environmental stewardship as it was as a downtown Ashland bastion of beers and food, closed its doors for good Sunday, a victim of the nosedive in tourist dollars after four years of regional and national calamity.

May 30, 2022

Climate Spotlight

Climate Spotlight: Oregon business and industry suit would undermine climate action

Alan Journet: “If global warming and its climate change consequences continue unchecked, they are likely to destroy our natural ecosystem (forests, woodlands, grasslands, deserts, etc.) by the end of the century, along with our agriculture, forestry, and fisheries. It’s difficult to imagine how the economic impact of this could be overestimated or ignored.”

May 30, 2022

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Inner Peace

Inner Peace: Seriousness and humor

Edward Hirsch: “Sometimes, from a higher perspective, we can laugh at a more contracted version of ourselves that we recall, or perhaps see another acting out, and we can do so with compassion. And then an even higher octave is when we are in a more-or-less liberated state and can hear the ‘laughter of the gods,’ or the humor of the God’s-Eye-View, from which life, and the entire cosmos, is just a game.”

May 30, 2022

Culture

Ashland World Music Festival wows hundreds in Lithia Park

The audience of about 300 people gathered Sunday at Butler Bandshell in Lithia Park for the Ashland World Music Festival’s main event were thrilled by what they saw and heard. As far as the audience was concerned, the weather — about 60 degrees — was warm, the music was beautiful, and the time was right for people to come together again.

May 30, 2022

Culture

Shakespeare scholar to host three weekend workshops

A series of six workshops about three plays by William Shakespeare are being offered with Barry Kraft, a long-time actor with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and noted Shakespearean scholar. Sessions will run from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays starting June 4.

May 30, 2022

Events

Memorial Day observance returns to Mt. View Cemetery

American Legion Post 14 of Ashland, in conjunction with Scout Troops 112 and 8112, will host the annual Memorial Day Observance at Mountain View Cemetery starting at 11 a.m. Monday, May 30. Patriotic music will be provided by the Ashland Brass Band.

May 29, 2022

City Government

Stefani Seffinger won’t seek third term on City Council

Ashland City Councilor Stefani Seffinger will not seek a third term on the council, she announced Saturday, a week after successful surgery to remove a melanoma. She intends “to continue to serve the last months of my term with dedication,” she said in a statement circulated to city staff members and posted on her Facebook page.

May 29, 2022

Events

The Ashland Run: A Memorial Day weekend tradition

The 49th Ashland Run takes off Saturday morning, May 28. The start and finish is near the corner of Hargadine and Fork streets, just up from the outdoor Allen Elizabethan Theatre. Registration is at 8 a.m., and the race starts at 8:30 a.m. There’s no charge to take part.

May 27, 2022

Events

Ashland World Music Festival returns this weekend

For the first time since 2019, Rogue World Music stages its live and in-person flagship event, the Ashland World Music Festival, with four events over four days, highlighted by five groups performing Sunday afternoon in Lithia Park. All are free to attend.

May 27, 2022

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