Community members will gather Saturday morning at the Oregon Fringe Festival to experience and participate in a new workshop titled “The Initiation.” Songbird & Starling, an Ashland-based performance collective, created the immersive theatrical experience.
Jim Hatton: If we can accept and embody what we truly are, which is pure consciousness, that we do not have to do anything to obtain immortality, and that we are already immortal, we can set aside all fears and live with a deeper inner peace.
Chris Millias: When everyone is railing about homelessness in America, why isn’t there a discussion about how these foreign aid packages are exacerbating our homelessness issues?
Southern Oregon Repertory Singers, in preparation for their last concert of the current season this May, recently announced the details of their 2024-25 series at a reveal party for donors. The Rep Singers will perform four concerts in the 2024-25 season, with new starting times for some of the programs.
Obituary: Merilee Pearl Ford Barrera died surrounded by her family on Friday, April 19, 2024, at home in Ashland, two months after she was diagnosed with her fourth cancer and 50 years after she arrived in this world to lead a life of joy, bravery, determination, pain and laughter.
Medford police have concluded an investigation into “theft and misuse of controlled substances by a former Asante nurse that resulted in serious infections in numerous patients,” the Jackson County District Attorney’s Office said in a release Thursday.
Walls were raised for the first two Habitat for Humanity homes in Ashland in almost two decades Saturday at a joyous event attended by about 100 people at the new Beach Creek development off North Mountain Avenue just northeast of the railroad tracks.
A community forum Tuesday regarding the Jackson County animal shelter touched on everything from the facility’s history and a review of the past year’s events, to discussion of shelters elsewhere and criticism of county officials’ proposed animal service district.
With hate crimes rising in Oregon, the Department of Justice has launched a campaign to support minority communities and spread awareness of the state’s nonemergency hotline for reporting bias and hate crimes.
A former Southern Oregon University wrestler was sentenced to a month of confinement and three years of probation for punching the owner of an Ashland Irish pub who refused to let him in the establishment.
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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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