Richard Carey: I find myself wondering whether this subliminal bombardment of binarized information might be one of the catalysts for the angst that makes so many of us feel disconnected or alienated from the natural world, and thus from the sense of wholeness and belonging that we need, both to find inner peace and to enjoy a more harmonious interaction with our environment.
The Ashland City Council unanimously approved a sister city partnership with Sviatohirsk, Ukraine, at the end of Tuesday’s regular business meeting. The action, which authorizes Ashland Mayor Tonya Graham to sign a memorandum of understanding with the mayor of Sviatohirsk, came on the eve of Ashland city officials first official return visit to its current sister city of Guanajuato, Mexico, since 2019 on Wednesday.
Now an Ashland High School grad, Luke Hogan Laurenson wants to take his message of persistence and hope on the road this fall. After graduating on June 9, Luke and his mom, Jane Hogan, will continue to fundraise for a wheelchair accessible van this summer that would help them take Luke’s message on the road this fall.
Dr. Lanita Witt died beside her wife, Suzanne Willow, Dec. 15, 2022. Her colorful, successful life will be celebrated a second time this week with a ceremony and a renewed drive for a scholarship in her name. During the summer solstice, Wednesday, June 21, at 5 p.m., at Willow-Witt Ranch outside Ashland, anyone who wants to is welcome to celebrate Witt’s life, said Willow.
Oregon lawmakers on Tuesday tucked $1.1 billion into an end-of-session budget bill, a move that pumps last-minute cash into purposes ranging from preparing for natural disasters to helping people seeking citizenship.
Profile: Local writer Kristin Elizabeth Clark, who relocated to Ashland in 2020, brings an elaborate historical patchwork of experiences to her writing, including making silk flowers, teaching taekwondo, producing youth theater and being a scenic artist for theater. Her life’s winding path began with growing up in Las Vegas, attending college in Utah and Nevada, and later marrying, settling, and raising her children in California.
About 150 people attended the Juneteenth “Crystallizing Our Call” Celebration Picnic at Ashland Creek Park on Sunday. The three-hour outdoor community event served as celebration of Father’s Day as well as Juneteenth, and also as the official fundraising launch for the permanent public art installation, “Ancestor’s Future: Crystallizing our Call,” a sculpture slated for installation at the park.
Sometimes getting out of a lease requires a drastic action. When Dan Shulters, owner and operator of Dan’s Shoe Repair in Ashland, offered to gift the business to Jerry Carpenter in exchange for taking over the remaining three years of the building lease, Carpenter didn’t take long to say yes.
Hold on to your breeches and hightail it over to the Camelot Theatre now through July 16 for the musical comedy “Something Rotten!” Camelot has put together a talented ensemble and produced a revival of one of Broadway’s more delightful musicals and Shakespearean spoofs.
More than 1,300 students received their diplomas Saturday in Raider Stadium at Southern Oregon University’s 97th commencement ceremony.
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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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