The Ashland Folk Collective is closing out June with a concert this weekend while reaching toward a fundraising campaign goal of $50,000 for future shows. AFC’s next show, featuring the Oliver Wood Trio, is set for this Saturday, June 29, at Roxy Ann Winery. Wood is a member of the roots band the Wood Brothers.
Death Notice: Sharon Kay (Goucher) Case, 86, passed Friday, June 21, 2024. Sharon will be laid to rest beside Floyd at 1:30 p.m. Monday, July 1, 2024, in Mountain View Cemetery, 440 Normal Ave., Ashland.
Ashland photographer and author Christopher Briscoe will talk about the recently published second edition of his book “The Child on the Train: And Other Stories in War-torn Ukraine” from 3 to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 29, in the Gresham room at the Ashland Public Library.
City Corner: If you are interested in running and have questions after reading this, please set up an appointment with our city recorder. We’re here to help.
Oregon is likely to face fewer big wildfires this summer than in previous years, but a lack of rural housing, coupled with unstable and often low pay, continues to create firefighter workforce challenges across the state and region.
“Legally Blonde,” an Amanda Brown novel that became a Broadway musical, collection of comedy films and television series, is the summer offering at The Oregon Cabaret Theatre beginning Friday, July 5. The musical features new Cabaret actors as well as a bevy of Cabaret veterans.
Conde Cox: These deer also destroy tens of thousands of dollars worth of landscaping in our city every year.
On the second anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning the national right to abortion, Oregon advocates launched an effort to enshrine abortion rights and protections against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in the state’s constitution.
Debra Wilson: People need to quit blaming the deer for protecting their young. Any good parent would do the same thing.
Dan Belenky: Kenyans have soundly rejected draconian new taxes on foods, vehicles and — most important — energy.
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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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