Herbert Rothschild: “Fortunately, most of us realize that our world is peopled with those who care about themselves as much as we care about ourselves, and our realization carries an obligation not to offend them.”
Ashland Little League’s 10-12-year-old Major boys are headed to the state tournament on Friday, a first for the division that Manager Adam Shea can remember.
Sharing a communications person currently on its staff with the city was added to a list of budget cuts unanimously approved by Ashland Parks & Recreation Commissioners at their regular meeting Wednesday. The recommendations will go to Ashland City Council for final consideration.
Chris Honoré: “Is the indictment of the former President in the national interest? This is not a decision made on the basis of law, but one that is perhaps the most difficult to sort out, and also takes us back to our fundamental belief in the primacy of the law before men.”
Entre Amigos: Sister City Guanajuato, Mexico, sent its summer festival queen and five other representatives to Ashland to participate in Ashland Fourth of July celebrations, resuming a 50-year tradition derailed in 2020 and 2021 by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ashland Parks & Recreation Commission could soon drop its lease with the city for Pioneer Hall as part of $350,000 in budget cuts being proposed to help balance the city’s structural deficit. The proposal is up for consideration at the commission’s regular meeting Wednesday, July 13.
Ashland Friends of Parks & Outdoor Spaces, a group that initially set out to put an initiative on the November ballot that would dedicate most food and beverage tax funding to Ashland parks, has suspended its efforts for the time being and asked the City Council to take it off at its July 19 meeting.
With a high of 103 forecast for today, Monday, July 11, the city of Ashland will open a cooling shelter from noon to 8 p.m. in the Guanajuato Room of the Ashland Public Library at 410 Siskiyou Blvd. in Ashland.
At the end of May, faced with the challenges of the pandemic and staffing shortages, Standing Stone served its last Oak Street Amber and closed its doors for good. Floyd and Margaret Whittle would probably be surprised their little leased garage building became a beloved restaurant.
Richard Carey: “The inner life (mine, at least) moves forward in space and time at varying speeds and depths, fraught with the fragments and flotsam of sensory experience and memory. In the space of any given day or hour, the stream may be calm for a spell, but then in the next moment churned by whirlpools and rapids.”
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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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