The Ashland Chamber of Commerce’s Children’s Halloween Celebration returns Monday, Oct. 31, after two years off due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The parade begins at 3:30 p.m. in front of the Ashland Public Library at 410 Siskiyou Blvd., and continues down East Main Street to Ashland Plaza.
Ashland independent film studio Joma Films has completed principal photography on a new feature film about a murder in a small Oregon town and a local boxer charged with committing the crime.
Kerry J. Carpenter: “You’ll no longer be in the dark if we elect Denise Krause to the (Jackson County) commission.”
Mike Gardiner: “Vote ‘no’ on Measure 15-210 to keep management of Parks & Recreation in the hands of stable, knowledgeable staff who report to a parks director.”
The ScienceWorks Hands-On Museum will hold a “Monster Ball” Halloween celebration from 4 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, at the 1500 E. Main St., facility. The event will boast numerous attractions, with family-centric fun slated from 4 to 7 p.m., followed by additional fun from 7 to 9 p.m.
Herbert Rothschild: “Our public forum isn’t always open, because social opprobrium can be almost as powerful as state censorship, constraining both individuals and media. At times, self-censorship has been the norm, not the exception.”
Death threats made to Oregon Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director Nataki Garrett and other staff that started in January have also been made in the “recent” past — within the past three months — according to David Schmitz, executive director of OSF. Schmitz met with Ashland Police Chief Tighe O’Meara earlier this month, along with a security firm hired by OSF, and said plans are in place to meet monthly regarding security.
David Kelly, who has been delighting audiences for decades at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, is returning to Ashland to perform in the Rogue Theater Company’s production of “Every Brilliant Thing” Nov. 30 to Dec. 10 at the Grizzly Peak Winery.
Matt Witt: “Talent voters are facing a stark choice as several local residents have published previously undisclosed information about a slate running against Mayor Darby Ayers-Flood and four current council members.”
Leslie Eldridge: “And I have dedicated myself, with the help of my colleagues and the community, to forming a “more perfect” parks and recreation system. But Measures 15-210 and 15-211 would move us away from this goal.”
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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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