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Reader Photo: Flash mob dance on Ashland Plaza
Reader Photo: The “Broadway Boomers” did some flash mob dancing on Ashland Plaza on Saturday, Dec. 16.
December 17, 2023
Reader Photo: The “Broadway Boomers” did some flash mob dancing on Ashland Plaza on Saturday, Dec. 16.
Reader Photo: Marty Karlin captured this photo of a Geminid meteor blazing a trail through the night sky over Ashland on Thursday evening, Dec. 14.
Families made good use of the recreational skating period kicking off the annual First Frost Community Skating Event on Saturday at Ashland Rotary Centennial Ice Rink. Visit ashland.or.us/icerink for skating schedule and admission information and updates, or call 541-552-2258 for more information.
As Oregon Supreme Court justices listened intently Thursday, lawyers parsed and dissected Measure 113, a voter-approved law that bars state legislators from serving a subsequent term after at least 10 unexcused absences.
Pepper Trail: As one species after another dwindles away, the structure of the ecosystems that sustain life on Earth is weakening.
An ordinance limiting where and how anyone can camp in Ashland will be up for adoption by the Ashland City Council on Tuesday. A majority vote in favor of the second reading would make the ordinance law. The ordinance is one of four council actions related to homelessness on the agenda for the Dec. 19 meeting.
STUDY SESSION AGENDA. Monday, December 18, 2023. Council Chambers, 1175 E Main Street.
BUSINESS MEETING AGENDA. Tuesday, December 19, 2023. Council Chambers, 1175 E Main Street.
Ashland sculptor Wataru Sugiyama has had two major goals in the past decade: Showing his art at the Smithsonian Craft Show and finishing an anthropomorphic owl sculpture he has envisioned for years that now stands 13-feet-tall in his Phoenix studio. The 67-year-old Ashland resident is about to accomplish both.
The city of Ashland is looking to install additional bike racks around town, but is first seeking the public’s help determining where it’s needed.
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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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