Multiple police officers responded to the south end of the Bear Creek Greenway on Sunday afternoon where Ashland resident Jamie Leah Rosenthal, 45, was arrested after police initially responded to a report of a female “yelling in the street,” according to court documents.
Drought, heat and a beetle known as the flatheaded fir borer are contributing to an escalating die-off of Douglas fir trees in southwest Oregon, prompting the Medford District of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to continue its push to log dead and dying conifers on 5,000 acres of forest land over five years.
Dylan Bloom: By adopting a proactive rather than reactive approach, we can chart a course toward a future where homelessness is not merely managed but largely eradicated in Ashland, leaving no one behind in our quest for a more equitable society.
Omar’s restaurant owner Jennifer Sink said she gave up accepting funding to expand her patio space after the restaurant’s iconic neon sign put her at odds with Ashland city code.
Ashland resident Dean Silver hopes to gather roughly 800 signatures from voters by the middle of May as part of a petition campaign seeking to give voters — rather than City Council — the say in the city’s largest-ever bond. Public Works Director Scott Fleury, however, has described the $75-million proposal — known as Resolution 2024-05 — to finance construction of a new water treatment plant as a “bond that’s not really a bond.”
Rogue Theater Company is hoping that free tickets and enlightening prefaces will captivate young audiences and help create future playgoers and supporters of the arts. Prefaces are open to the public, but students and educators are given preference.
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Michael O’Looney: We are all exhausted just thinking about another four years of Trumpian strife and self-glorification or another four years of seeing a faltering though well-intentioned, elderly statesman who simply may no longer have the energy or vision to guide the nation through the perilous times ahead.
Ken Gosling: I cannot believe that I am the only veteran out there who finds Trump totally unacceptable to serve as commander in chief of our military.
Jessica Bryan: I grew up in a big city and thought beavers were ancient, extinct creatures seen only in picture books. I was shocked to actually see one in my backyard.
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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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