A local company led by Ashland Mayor Tonya Graham has launched an effort to better prepare communities before disaster strikes. Ashland-based Geos Institute announced that its Navigator Network has recently started a pilot project in 72 communities in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
State attorneys general in Oregon, Washington and California and two Oregon-based environmental groups are asking federal energy regulators to reconsider their approval of a natural gas pipeline project that would increase the flow of gas through the Northwest.
On a split vote, the Ashland City Council on Tuesday tabled a proposed camping ordinance, postponing any action to the next council meeting. The first reading of the proposed ordinance to prohibit where, when and for how long individuals experiencing homelessness can camp in the city of Ashland underwent a brief discussion Tuesday evening.
Ashland’s holiday season swings into full gear Friday, Nov. 24, with Santa and Mrs. Claus’ procession from the Ashland Public Library to Ashland Plaza and the launch of the Festival of Light Celebration.
The Ashland City Council discussed forestalling the process of filling the vacant city manager’s position until January during Monday’s study session, and heard a report that said climate change is expected to bring temperatures up to 70 degrees earlier in the year and to last longer into autumn, creating an increase in water demand.
Douglas fir trees are dying at a rapid rate throughout Ashland’s municipal forests. The Ashland Forest Plan has been adjusted to meet the moment with a project using helicopters to remove dead and dying trees from the steep slopes of the lower watershed and nearby Siskiyou Mountain Park.
Oregon’s voter-approved gun law that would require permits and a safety course violates the state constitution, a Harney County Circuit Court judge ruled on Tuesday. The ruling is a setback for gun safety advocates who backed Measure 114 in response to gun violence and mass shootings and convinced Oregon voters to pass it in 2022.
Asante Ashland Community Hospital has been recognized as an Age-Friendly Health System by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement for its work with geriatric patients. The hospital earned the highest designation — Committed to Care Excellence — for its work in the “4Ms”: mentation, mobility, medications and focusing on what matters most to them.
About 4,500 Ukrainians have arrived in Oregon since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, upending their lives and forcing them to flee the danger and chaos of their homeland. Nearly two years later, government agencies, resettlement organizations and community groups have banded together to help Ukrainians settle into a new life in Oregon.
Native Plant Society: Through our Southern Oregon community (citizen) science project we will teach volunteers how to monitor populations of rare plant species. The goal is for volunteers to be able to visit known populations of their adopted species and report on the health of those populations.
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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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