Ashland’s oldest hotel is once again open for business. Ashland has two historic hotel buildings, the Peerless Hotel, built in 1900, and Ashland Springs Hotel, built in 1925. The Peerless, at 243 Fourth street in the Railroad District, was closed for three months for renovations by its newest owner, Shawn Donnille.
Herbert Rothschild: “Judging by its first two public hearings, the committee isn’t saying what everyone already knows. There have been news reports and there have been criminal cases against many of the attackers. But until now we have not had an evidence-based, comprehensive and coherent account of what happened on Jan. 6, much less the planning and actions that led to it.”
After hundreds of hours spent by Jackson County Sheriff’s Office Search & Rescue to find an Ashland man who went missing on the Bear Creek Greenway path, the man has been found. Harold “Harry” Marcrum, 26, returned home Thursday to his family members, according to Sgt. Shawn Richards, with Jackson County Sheriff’s Office.
After nearly a two-year process, an Ashland school named for John Muir has changed its name to TRAILS Outdoor School. The new name, approved unanimously by Ashland School Board on June 13, stands for Trust, Respect, Awareness, Interdependency, Leadership, and Stewardship.
Two Southern Oregon University students have been awarded the U.S. Department of State’s Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship in the spring 2022 scholarship round to support their upcoming study abroad programs. The prestigious scholarships support U.S. undergraduates of limited financial means in pursuing study or internships in countries around the world.
Medical assistants, dental assistants, pharmacy technicians and phlebotomists studying at Rogue Community College will have the opportunity to benefit from scholarships of up to $8,000 thanks to this spring’s Ashland Community Hospital Foundation Patrons Campaign. Scholarships will cover tuition, which ranges from $2,000-$8,000.
Barbara Cervone: “Reports of our inadequate response to the climate emergency roll in as regularly as the tides. The latest came from the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), telling us that the crisis is getting worse even faster than we’d imagined. It’s hard to envision a louder alarm, and yet we seem able to sleep through it.”
Sally McKirgan: “Two poems by James Dillet Freeman, sometimes known as ‘the poet laureate of the moon,’ reside on the moon. ‘I am There’ was taken by Astronaut James B. Irwin in 1971, and ‘Prayer for Protection’ was taken by Lunar Commander ‘Buzz’ Aldrin in July 1969. Here are Freeman’s poems.”
Barbara Brozik: “I believe that religion and state should be separate. This idea of conversion has been scientifically debunked. I will not be a part of such practices.”
An Ashland nonprofit announced Thursday it has launched a $2.5 million campaign to renovate the former Super 8 motel that was the first of its kind to receive state funding from a program that pays to acquire motels for use as shelters for people experiencing homelessness, at-risk of homelessness or displaced by wildfires.
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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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