A $50,000 grant will allow Mercy Flights to add a third vehicle to its Mobile Integrated Healthcare fleet. Ashland-based Opportunities for Housing, Resources & Assistance (OHRA) received $38,000 to increase staff that will help connect housing-insecure individuals to resources.
Charles “Chuck” Butler of Ashland, a retired auto dealer whose passion for community betterment left an indelible mark on countless lives, died Sunday, May 21, just three days shy of his 84th birthday.
It’s no easy task operating a public library during renovations but the Ashland branch pulled it off, reopening the upper level of its building on Monday.
Some water deliveries from Talent Irrigation District started flowing on Monday, signaling the start of the irrigation season for many water patrons, about six weeks earlier than it started last year.
“Everybody,” written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins in 2017, is adapted from the 15th century Catholic morality play “Everyman.” There will be eight performances of the SOU theater season finale, including matinee and evening shows.
George Kramer: “The City of Ashland must learn to live within its means, spend the ample funds it already receives wisely and stop dividing the community with efforts around the meals tax. We face many challenges. How about our leaders work with us to solve them?”
Charles “Al” Huth: “There is confusion regarding religion and spirituality. Spirituality does not come from religion. It comes from our soul, which is defined as the immaterial part of a human being regarded as immortal, or emotional/intellectual energy. Expressed differently, spirituality is an intense energetic connection that we were born with. It is part of our ability to survive and thrive.”
The Ashland City Council will hold a Special Study Session on Thursday, May 25th beginning at 5:00 PM. Held Hybrid.
Big ticket capital improvement projects in Ashland such as a new park on East Main Street and renovations to public buildings are driving up the budgets of three city departments. The Ashland Budget Committee dived into the proposed budgets of Public Works, Community Development and Parks & Recreation during a two-hour meeting last Thursday, May 18.
Obituary: Douglas Rowe, 85, a retired actor/director, golfer, and lifelong fisherman and baseball fan, passed away peacefully at Asante Medical Center in Medford on Saturday, May 13, 2023.
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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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