SOU freshman Kaylah Bresee’s first career goal and Ashlynn Hernandez’s goalkeeping helped the Raiders make the Embry-Riddle Eagles their highest-ranked victims in team history with a 1-0 victory.
Herbert Rothschild: Washington has begun to acknowledge that people leave their native lands and risk a long hazardous journey because their lives have become unbearable.
Air quality plummeted in most of the Rogue Valley Thursday night, hours after readings were in the moderate range. It marks a one-week stretch when readings have been unhealthy to hazardous, brought on by regional wildfires.
A group of nearly 50 people met Wednesday begin the process of rewriting the Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) created in 2004. Representatives of agencies, businesses and individuals from across the city of Ashland and Jackson County will work to lay out a plan to prepare for wildfire in the city of Ashland, how to respond to it, and how to recover as a community if and when it occurs.
No team should be more equipped to start the 2023 high school football season than the Ashland Grizzlies. Beyond returning nearly every starter on each side of the ball, the Grizzlies have two other pivotal factors on their side.
Kitten season is always a busy time for shelters, but rescuers feel especially overwhelmed this year. “During COVID there were fewer spays and neuters,” says Sandra Fowler, shelter manager of Committed Alliance to Strays (C.A.T.S.) in Medford. “Cats who didn’t get fixed had kittens, and then those cats had kittens.”
James Hawes: As a former elementary and middle school teacher, I suggest that you walk by an elementary school in the morning or during lunch recess. You cannot help but notice the vibrant energy, enthusiasm and shouts of joy and uproarious laughter. Regardless of your age, you cannot help but watch, feel or sense this inner child on display.
Chris Honoré: What brought this to mind was Donald Trump’s social media post, “If you go after me, I’m coming after you.” Is this protected political speech? Or is it a veiled threat meant for those who are even remotely involved in a political or governmental pushback?
Jackson County District Attorney Beth Heckert is worried that a federal judge’s order to release defendants from jail in Washington County within 10 days if they don’t have an attorney appointed by then could have staggering repercussions for the Rogue Valley, including the release of people charged with murder.
Along East Main Street out past ScienceWorks, a collaborative artist hub has been taking shape in Ashland since late spring. A new Ashland-based nonprofit, Gambrel Arts, founded by owners of the Gambrel Gallery to nurture diversity and creativity, launched the Annex at 2082 E. Main St. earlier this year.
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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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