Shayne Foley of Ashland took this photo from a drone hovering over the railroad tracks through Ashland on Aug. 17. North Mountain Park is at left center, the end of Russell Street at lower left, the east end of Railroad Park at bottom center with Eighth Street going off to the right, and North Mountain Avenue crossing the tracks about halfway to the horizon.
Ashland utility customers can expect September billing to be delayed by one week, and the closure of the city’s utility billing office until further notice, according to a news release issued by the city of Ashland Monday afternoon.
Garden of the Month: Elizabeth and Gerard Boulanger’s gorgeous front yard at 453 Tucker St. is a great example and is the Ashland Garden Club’s Garden of the Month for September 2022, the last of this year. It requires only a modest amount of water to put on a beautiful show year-round.
Victoria Leo: “Psychologists help us to put our troubles in perspective by getting us to think of our dilemmas in a larger context. The immeasurable universe above us is the largest possible context.”
About 50 to 60 people gathered Sept. 1 at the Ashland Community Health Foundation office to celebrate the second anniversary of the foundation’s headquarters, which opened Sept. 1, 2020, just prior to the Almeda Fire on Sept. 8. The foundation, which hosted a ribbon-cutting and meet and greet gathering at its new location, is also celebrating a new name.
Julie Raefield of Ashland took this photo of the sunrise over Grizzly Peak Wednesday morning, Sept. 7.
A grass fire just southeast of the intersection of Crowson Road and Highway 66 was quickly extinguished Friday afternoon, according to reports from Ashland Fire & Rescue and Jackson County Fire District No. 5. ODF Southwest Oregon District also responded.
Herbert Rothschild: “State legislators became less and less committed to funding higher education, which led to the student debt crisis. We might regard Biden’s program as our belated and partial assumption at the federal level of a responsibility we have dodged at the state level for the last four decades.”
A heat advisory issued Thursday afternoon by the National Weather Service cautions people in Southern Oregon and Northern California that temperatures could reach 107 degrees. Forecast highs in Ashland are 96 on Friday and 99 on Saturday, dropping to 89 on Sunday. The city of Ashland has announced a cooling shelter will be open from 2 to 7 p.m. Saturday and, pending enough volunteers offering to help host, from 2 to 7 p.m. Saturday at the Ashland Public Library.
Hiram Towle, the general manager for the Mt. Ashland Ski Area the past eight years, is leaving in mid-October to take over as general manager at the Bridger Bowl ski area in Bozeman, Montana.
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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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