Air quality was very unhealthy from Ashland to Medford Tuesday afternoon as wildfire smoke socked in Southern Oregon for the third day in a row. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, which had issued an air quality alert in effect until 5 p.m. Tuesday for much of southwest Oregon, at about 2 p.m. Tuesday extended the alert until 5 p.m. Thursday.
Craig Anderson: Latest Grand Terrace story by Ashland.news missed some points, including ‘the systematic coddling of developers’ by the city.
John Yunker: In “This Is Wildfire: How to Protect Yourself, Your Home, and Your Community in the Age of Heat,” authors Nick Mott and Justin Angle have created a book that is as much an explanation of how we got to this point in history as it is a hands-on guide to living a more fire-wise life.
Portland-based acoustic blues guitarist Terry Robb will perform Friday night at Talent Club.
Wendy Eppinger: Kudos to Ashland’s new emergency management coordinator, Kelly Burns, for providing a cooling center. … We all can help Burns out by signing on for shifts.
Michael O’Looney: Some Americans blame Donald Trump for our nation’s vitriolic politics. But maybe Trump’s supporters are the bigger problem.
The Southern Oregon University University Board of Trustees will hold a special meeting Monday, Aug. 28, to review its budget in light of what the state legislature approved in the session that ended in June, but a key member of the SOU leadership team that crafted its multi-year “realignment” budget plan won’t be there.
Want to help your neighbors in the event of a disaster? The city of Ashland will host a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Basic Academy this fall. The academy provides local residents with free training on how to learn how to help themselves, their families and ultimately the community in the event of a disaster. CERT basic training is offered to the Ashland community twice a year.
An air quality alert issued Sunday afternoon by the Medford office of the National Weather Service (NWS) says wildfires burning in the region combined with forecast conditions will cause air quality levels to fluctuate, possibly into unhealthy levels. The advisory remains in effect until 5 p.m. Tuesday.
A benefit concert Saturday afternoon for Ashland’s war-torn sister city Sviatohirsk not only raised at least three times its fundraising goal but also sent a clear message to all Ukrainians: You are not alone. You are not forgotten.
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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.
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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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