Some 30 Ashland Cub Scouts brought their bikes to The Siskiyou School on Monday evening to learn from experts about the importance of bike safety and bike maintenance. Organizations including the Rogue Valley Transportation District, Ashland Police Department, Ashland Cycle Sport and Ashland Devo shared safety tips, provided mechanical tuneups, and encouraged the scouts as they pedaled about.
Ask Strider: This week, a friend of the writer’s needs advice: how to handle a dog who tears up the house when left alone? Strider has a lot of experience with dog anxiety, and he has a lot to say, drawn from his own history.
Bob Kaplan: We need to replace our aging water treatment plant. … There’s no space there to treat toxic algae that are a growing risk with hotter summers, and the treatment plant is vulnerable to floods, fires and landslides.
In March, the Ashland Schools Foundation reached out to a national nonprofit organization, Free Guitars 4 Kids, which responded quickly. Within a little over a week, 85 of the guitars were taken home by the students. Electric guitars even came with their own amps and other accessories.
Oregon’s getting better at preventing and responding to wildfires, experts said Thursday, but much more still needs to be done. A panel of University of Oregon professors who study climate change, smoke and wildfire discussed the 2024 wildfire season in an online forum with journalists as the West braces for summer fires.
The city of Ashland has released the dates for its ongoing “Coffee & Conversation” events from spring to autumn. The spring event will be held from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 14, at North Mountain Park Nature Center.
Due to a series of tasks left incomplete by the previous city recorder, the city of Ashland is facing lost revenue and potential legal ramifications, according to documents obtained by Ashland.news. In the wake of the resignation of the previous city recorder last year, city officials are working to organize and process a significant volume of work left undone.
Catty Corner: Everyone can help local rescues with the challenges of kitten season — and one of the best ways to help may surprise you. Learn what to do when you encounter kittens in the wild, how to become a foster family, and when the next adoption event is happening.
Sortia Sherrow was presented with Ashland Rotary Club’s Student of The Month for March at the club’s luncheon meeting on April 25.
Obituary: Phyllis Bulmer passed away at home on April 13 in Ashland, Oregon, at age 93. One of the many things that made Phyllis so unique was her adventurous spirit. I think the time it first became evident was after college, when she and three friends took a 10-week camping trip across the country.
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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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