Possible lightning storms Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon through Monday morning has prompted the National Weather Service to issue a Red Flag Warning for large areas of Southern Oregon and Northern California, even as a fire first reported Friday afternoon near the Klamath River northwest of Yreka exploded overnight to an area of more than 18,000 acres, sending a plume of smoke over the region.
The public has a chance to see spectacular first image footage from the James Webb Space Telescope and learn more about the mission with hands-on activities at ScienceWorks Hands-On Museum in Ashland this weekend, including a visit from a NASA ambassador mid-day Saturday.
Alan DeBoer: “I have worked with Betsy, and she brings leadership that will be reminiscent of Tom McCall that did so much for Oregon. If Oregon can elect an Independent for governor, it will rock the establishment in the nation, and we should all concur that politics need that.”
Herbert Rothschild: “The most consequential of the culture wars now raging in the U.S. is whether we can acknowledge the savagery of our past and still believe the nation merits our loyalty.”
Dan Belenky: “ODFW says the deer are part of our natural environment and we should learn to live in harmony with them. But they aren’t wild deer, they are thoroughly urban. They are born, live and die in the city.”
A sculpture called “The Journey,” depicting 12 characters representative of life’s stages, had quite a journey of its own before it was unveiled at a small ceremony on June 18 at a quiet, park-like location nestled between the Blue Giraffe Spa, Plaza Inn and Suites and Ashland Creek at 51 Water St., just across the creek from the public parking area on Water Street under the Lithia Way overpass.
A grass fire burning just south of Exit 14 was brought under control Monday afternoon by firefighters from Ashland Fire & Rescue and the Oregon Department of Forestry, who held the fire to just under one acre. Crews responded to a 911 call at 4:23 p.m. reporting a fire in the vicinity of Washington Street and East Jefferson Avenue, just west of Interstate 5.
Brad Carrier: “Who knows what residents have to offer or what they might think? Who knows who is selling what where? A single, comprehensive gathering place, an online town square and bulletin board, like Ashland.news, could reacquaint us with us.”
Reader Photo: Julie Raefield of Ashland shot this photo of a double rainbow from the Oak Knoll Golf Course on June 11.
Ashland City Band, Part 3: The band’s history since 1876! Including why the City Band is different from other bands, how it can rehearse as little as it does, and a reminder to see them play free in the park on Thursday evenings through Aug. 11.
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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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