The annual Ashland city town hall gathering Wednesday evening largely focused on a speech from Mayor Tonya Graham celebrating successes for the city over the previous year. She emphasized creativity, learning while doing and seeking resources from grants or partnerships as the future for the city.
Leo Garcia said that the blue bag program could raise thousands of dollars a year and that since the overhead is low, most of the money raised would go directly to the food bank.
Despite beginning high school during a global pandemic, Oregon’s class of 2023 maintained a relatively high on-time graduation rate, and some groups set new records. More than 37,000 Oregon students graduated in 2023, 81.3% of the class, according to Oregon Department of Education data published Thursday.
The Oregon Cabaret Theatre season begins Friday, Feb. 2, with “Clue,” a play based on the 1985 Paramount movie that was inspired by the classic Hasbro board game.
Pump House 2.0 is expected to open in March, combining elements of both the original Pump House which closed last fall and the short-lived Rogue Taqueria at the corner of Talent Avenue and East Main Street in downtown Talent. Owners Jeven Showers and Garth Evey say they hope customers will agree it is the best of both worlds.
Chris Honoré: In this moment [Trump backers] support a candidate who openly declares that on Day One of his administration he will be a retributive dictator and that democracy is anachronistic.
Oregon Democratic legislators plan to fight the state’s war on drug addiction and overdoses on multiple battle fronts. The proposal would not abolish Measure 110, and it would still allow money to flow into those programs, which pay for peers to counsel people, harm reduction services like overdose reversal medications and help with housing and other services. But the proposal would change a key part: the decriminalization of possession.
Stanley R. Luther: “Flying has been my lifelong passion — a love affair with the skies. It doesn’t matter what kind of airplane: little, big or anything in between.”
The pandemic, wildfires and resulting decline in tourism to Ashland nearly shut down ScienceWorks Hands-On Museum. Earlier this month, its doors opened again to an institution leaning on its strengths — questioning, exploring and reinventing itself.
House Majority Leader Julie Fahey will likely be the next speaker of the Oregon House following a private vote among Democratic lawmakers on Monday evening. Democrats envision a formal vote to as one of the last acts of the upcoming legislative short session, which ends no later than March 10.
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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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