An air quality alert due to smoke from the Rum Creek Fire burning northwest of Grants Pass continues through 5 p.m. Thursday, according to the National Weather Service. Moderate to heavy smoke is expected over Jackson, Josephine and Curry counties at least through Thursday.
Members of Ashland’s Housing & Human Services Commission, city staff, other agency representatives and the public discussed Ashland’s housing affordability problem last Thursday at the city’s first in-person forum on the topic since 2019. Residents are encouraged to complete a survey currently underway to help better define the issue and identify solutions.
A body was found in Calle Guanajuato Park near the corner of Granite Street and High Street on Saturday morning, the Ashland Police Department has announced. The decedent appeared to be an unhoused person who had passed away several days prior to Aug. 27, the report said.
Members and host families from the Rotary Club of Ashland on Aug. 17 welcomed their first international youth exchange student to Southern Oregon since the COVID-19 epidemic halted the program in 2020.
The block on North Main Street between Laurel and Manzanita streets has been associated with education in Ashland for 150 years, since the Rev. Skidmore first started a college called “The Academy” in 1872. Briscoe Elementary was dedicated in 1949 and closed in 2004. The school is now owned by the city and leased to the Oregon Child Development Coalition.
Oregon Shakespeare Festival has taken steps to create clean power by installing solar panels and create less carbon emissions by arranging to use hybrid and electric vehicles.
Lawrence Nagel of Ashland took this study in texture and shades of umber at Bandon Beach this summer.
A peace-building grant will make it possible for longtime Ashland resident and consultant Marla Estes to offer an upcoming series of workshops on elevating the pursuit and teaching of compassionate humility to its highest level, in hopes of building bridges across divides, whether political or cultural, at no cost.
Anyone walking or driving around Ashland in recent weeks has likely seen a double-truck covered with signs promoting peace, love and joy, and its intention to deliver food, clothes and building materials to the Hopi Reservation. Curtis Meliford, originally from Louisiana, and now a resident of Santa Cruz, explains how he came to work on “being the change we wish to see in the world.”
Herbert Rothschild: “If our world is changing so rapidly that our habitual ways of understanding what we are experiencing no longer work for us, then we lose our footing and become prey to demagogues.”
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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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