The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute will hold an open house from 1 to 4 p.m. Friday, July 28, at the Southern Oregon Stevenson Union building, 1118 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland, organizers have announced.
Rogue Valley areas, including Ashland, are in for reduced air quality through Monday, the Medford office of the National Weather Service said Sunday. Shifting weather patterns were expected to bring smoke from the Flat Fire near Agness into the valley starting Sunday evening.
John Darling: It’s getting warmer all over the world and it’s because of us. We’ve established that as fact now, but we’ve never warmed the globe before and we don’t know what it means. It’s human nature to plunge onward and find out, so we are.
Review: What happens if you take a late 1980s rock opera based on Puccini’s 1890s “La Boehme,” focus it on the gritty but artistic counterculture of New York’s Lower East Side during the height of the AIDS epidemic, and plunk it onto Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Angus Bowmer Theatre stage in Ashland in 2023? Magic. That’s what happens.
Paul Huard Dispatch from Ukraine, No. 4: They say that people who volunteer in Ukraine frequently come to heal, or to be healed. I found out recently that I am no exception — in fact, I experienced both.
Central Point resident Alvin Woody scored a bittersweet property tax win from Salem lawmakers this session after hitting a brick wall with Jackson County officials. He finally turned to Rep. Pam Marsh, D-Ashland, even though her House district doesn’t include Central Point, and she championed House Bill 2086, signed into law by Gov. Tina Kotek on July 13.
The public is welcome to attend the meeting. Please email alissa.kolodzinski@ashland.or.us using the subject line: Attend Early Learning Meeting no later than 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, July 25, 2023.
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has issued an advisory that air quality in the Rogue Valley and on the Southern Oregon Coast could reach unhealthy levels at times through 5 p.m. Saturday because of smoke from the Flat Fire east of Gold Beach.
Chris Honoré: Massacres of schoolchildren by gunmen don’t move Congress to stem the bloodshed. Instead, we continue to live under the tyranny of the gun.
Heather Yandell is off the streets and opening new doors to her future, including the front door to her new apartment. After navigating countless challenges as a homeless person pursuing a higher education degree, and thanks to her own determination and the generosity of others near and far, Yandell, thanks to a housing scholarship, moved into an apartment at the end of June.
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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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