The National Telecommunications and Information Administration has earmarked nearly $700 million for high-speed internet service in areas of Oregon that lack service. The money is part of $42.5 billion allocated nationwide as part of a broadband equity program in the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure law.
Three larger, quieter, more eco-friendly boats that will be used for tours on Crater Lake were flown to the lake by helicopter Monday. Following a shakedown period and pending approval from the U.S. Coast Guard, lake tours could begin by the end of next week.
Review: Set in the Arizona Territory of the 1880s, “Desperate Measures,” with dialogue in rhyming couplets, played successfully in New York in 2017. This current production deserves to be equally well-received — the audience at the performance I saw certainly loved it.
The 2023 legislative session is over, drawing smiles and high fives in the wood-paneled chambers. There were tears, too, on Sunday: Lawmakers and observers said the session was one of the most chaotic, frustrating and, at times, suspenseful sessions in recent history.
For the third time in four years, Jessica Pistole is the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Softball Coach of the Year for pushing Southern Oregon University to another national championship.
With a few last surprise bill deaths, an ad hoc scooter race and many, many speeches, the Oregon Legislature ended the 2023 legislative session with a few hours to spare late Sunday afternoon. The 160-day session was marked by a six-week Senate Republican walkout that blocked progress on hundreds of bills and the constant banging, droning and whirring of construction equipment as lawmakers worked around a $375 million renovation of the 1938 Capitol.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has scheduled public meetings in Pinehurst, southeast of Ashland, on Wednesday, June 28, and in Medford on Thursday, June 29, to gather public comment for the first update to the original 2008 management plan for the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. An online meeting is set for Monday, July 10, too.
Several key environmental bills that would help communities guard against the effect of climate change, protect groundwater and prevent wildfires passed the Oregon Legislature and are on their way to Gov. Tina Kotek’s desk for final approval. The Senate reconvenes at 10 a.m. and the House at 11 a.m. Sunday, June 25, for the final day of the session.
From herding goats in Somali while growing up to helping middle school students in Ashland for more than 25 years, it’s been an incredible journey for Abdiaziz “Abdi” Guled.
For a guy who’s retired, Tom Stamper stays busy. The Ashland drummer performs in and around town with a variety of jazz and blues bands, he teaches drumming and he creates pottery and other visual art. He’ll be performing soon with two different bands at the Bloomsbury Blends coffee shop and wine bar, where he has been a regular weekend player this year with a changing lineup of local jazz and blues musicians.
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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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