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May 2024

Ashland School District

Let’s talk: Collaborative conversation coaching order of the first Law Day

Local high school students relished their deep dive into navigating some of the thorniest political issues of our time at the first-ever Southern Oregon Law Day on Thursday at Southern Oregon University. The half-day event, held at Stevenson Union on the SOU campus, featured a number of experts in their respective fields, as well as opening remarks by Rep. Pam Marsh, D-Ashland, and closing remarks by Sen. Jeff Golden, D-Ashland.

May 25, 2024

Books

OSF veteran depicts an actor’s haunting life in new novel

“Harriman’s Ghost” tells side-by-side stories of the life of the fictional Ben Harriman, a revered film and television star, and Janet Cooper, ghost writer of Harriman’s official biography. In “Harriman’s Ghost,” she is goaded into writing another book that unveils the truth about the actor’s troubled life.

May 25, 2024

Daniel Sperry quintet at Lithia Park

Events

‘Beautiful Music in the Park’ returns Saturday for its next season

True to its name, the nonprofit organization Beautiful Music in the Park will bring, well, beautiful music to Lithia Park again this year, the second season for the program founded by longtime park cello busker Daniel Sperry, starting Saturday, May 25. The piano quintet “Friends of Flare” is set to play from 11 a.m. to noon on the small field past the lower duck pond, affectionately nicknamed the “cello lawn” after Sperry’s frequent busks.

May 24, 2024

Events

A chance to hear ‘Hamlet’ in modern verse

A developmental reading from a modern verse translation of “Hamlet” by the theater ensemble Universes will be presented Saturday and Sunday, June 1 and 2, at the SOU Main Stage Theater by the Ashland New Plays Festival.

May 24, 2024

Crossword

Crossword: Collaborative Theatre 2024 #02

The rest of Collaborative Theatre’s 2024 plays. Solve crossword directly in the article or download a PDF to print. More crosswords under the Culture menu.

May 24, 2024

City Government

Ashland City Council closer to tackling natural gas impacts on climate and health

Climate change again occupied the minds of the Ashland City Council and local residents at Tuesday night’s council meeting, leading to unanimous approval for city staff to begin preparing language for three paths forward to advance the transition from natural gas to electricity in home heating and other appliances.

May 24, 2024

Entre Amigos

Entre Amigos: Sister City cooperative projects are going strong

The Ashland Amigo Club, supporter of the Ashland-Guanajuato alliance since its beginning, reports 16 University of Guanajuato students have come to Ashland this year to work on projects with their university student counterparts.

May 23, 2024

Letter: It is genocide, not a war

John Marciano: For decades, Palestinians in Gaza have engaged in peaceful protests against Israel’s illegal and immoral occupation. Each time Israel has responded with massive violence.

May 23, 2024

Inner Peace

Inner Peace: Spiritual maturity

Jim Hatton: The universe, both physical and nonphysical, is a vibratory universe. That is, all is vibration, including physical matter and live conscious beings. Another word for this vibration is “consciousness.” All is consciousness or thought energy in motion.

May 23, 2024

Relocations

Relocations: A long overdue reckoning with the horror of Indian boarding schools

Herbert Rothschild: Brig. Gen. Richard Henry Pratt, who founded and then ran the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, stated that the ethos of Indian Boarding School Policies was to “kill the Indian in him, and save the man.” In fact, the process often killed both. Thousands of children who were forced into Indian boarding schools were never heard from again.

May 23, 2024

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