The smoke that rolled into Ashland heavily on Thursday canceled one Oregon Shakespeare Festival play that night, according to Tyler Hokama, interim executive director of OSF, in an interview with Ashland.news on Friday afternoon. Hokama and the organization will continue to monitor the smoke in coming days and weeks. He hopes the impacts are small and short-lived.
In the wake of the tragic wildfires in Maui, residents of Ashland have questions for Ashland Fire & Rescue (AFR). During the City Council meeting Tuesday, City Manager Joe Lessard handed off part of his manager’s report to AF&R Chief Ralph Sartain to address questions about evacuation planning and fire weather in the forecast.
Wildfire smoke prompted the city of Ashland to open a clean-air shelter at Calvin Hall at First Presbyterian Church of Ashland, 1615 Clark Ave., Friday afternoon, which is scheduled to also be open from noon to 8 p.m. Saturday, according to the city’s website.
Obituary: Heather Allen, 80, an artist, pet lover and volunteer who lived with her husband, Andre, near Emigrant Lake, died Aug. 6. A celebration of her life will take place in October.
Herbert Rothschild: What Trump did in itself assures his importance to our history. Whether we succeed in holding him accountable for his treason will matter even more.
Smoke is collecting in the Rogue Valley due to fires in our region and may continue on and off for some time, the city of Ashland cautioned on its website and via phone calls to emergency alert subscribers Thursday evening.
The main route between the Rogue Valley and the Oregon and California coasts, Highway 199, remained closed Thursday in California due to a wildland fire on both sides of the road.
The Ashland City Council voted unanimously to purchase a new property for an emergency shelter Tuesday — a decision that inspired strong responses from residents. The 1.2-acre property at 2200 Ashland St. is the site of a 3,097-square-foot commercial facility owned by Coming Attractions, which operates the Varsity Theatre.
The Ashland Planning Commission has approved, for the third time, plans for the 230-unit Grand Terrace apartment complex on the north end of town. The development will go back to the Planning Commission on Sept. 12 for a final recommendation to the City Council.
Charles “Al” Huth: Understanding who we are in terms of science and spirituality is of utmost importance. Each of us has a body that is energetically connected to the mind, the two functioning as one entity — a duality that cannot be separated.
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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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