John Darling: “The ‘it’ I am looking for is that elusive, usually sentimentalized, grossly exploited thing called Christmas Spirit — which is supposed to be a giddy, blessed, childlike abandonment of the normal hurried, self-centered, worried, grabby, type-A personality we have the rest of the year.”
About 15 volunteers served up a bounty of hot food Wednesday, Dec. 21, to about 45 people at the eighth annual Community Peace Meal in the courtyard of Pioneer Hall.
Ashland is getting closer to an ordinance regulating 5G cell towers as a proposed antenna has residents pushing for action. AT&T has applied for a 150-foot 5G tower at Medella Bison Ranch on Jackson Road just outside Ashland city limits.
Land use watchdog Rogue Advocates is appealing the annexation of 17 acres along Highway 99 on the north end of Ashland for the proposed Grand Terrace apartment complex, calling the project unlawful and unable to address Ashland’s housing crisis.
Drug abuse shouldn’t carry its own death sentence — This administration is the first to embrace harm reduction By Herbert Rothschild Last year the U.S. passed a grim milestone: 100,000
Ashland High School students have come together to support a fund drive to raise funds for a wheelchair-accessible van for fellow student Luke Hogan Laurenson by appearing in a new YouTube dance video to the tune of Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off.”
Ashland resident Richard Sawicki is well acquainted with parts of California’s National Ignition Facility, the site of this month’s widely reported fusion ignition reaction that produced more energy than the amount used to start it. He helped build the equipment that made it possible.
The Ashland Schools Foundation awarded $47,019 to the Ashland School District earlier this month, with donated funds supporting “35 unique projects and initiatives across Ashland school sites,” according to a news release.
The JPR Foundation restoration of the historic Holly Theatre is underway again after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic. A number of Ashland connections are helping make the project possible.
A new report shows that Oregon is “faced with many problems” when it comes to paying for the rising costs of higher education, ultimately hindering enrollment that has a spillover effect on the state’s economy.
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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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