Acting City Attorney Doug McGeary said a breach of Oregon Public Meeting Law during an Ashland City Council executive session was an oversight caused when he performed duties normally in the purview of human resources.
Review: “Much Ado About Nothing,” playing in the Allen Elizabethan Theatre at OSF, is delightfully different in presentation. The re-creation, led by the creative team, sets the stage for romance, creating an atmosphere where the beguiled and betrayed, the lovesick and lovelorn can woo and work things out under hanging gardens and balconies laden with flower-covered vines.
Ask Strider: This week the former street dog’s theme is happiness. Two readers want to know how to get it, one wants to get an unhappy sibling off her case, and finally, one wants to know if Strider has a favorite song. And as a matter of fact, he does!
A new art gallery that has risen from the ashes of the burned-out Malmgren Garage in downtown Talent celebrates with a grand opening Friday, June 28. The building fell victim to the 2020 Almeda Fire and, after four years of permits and construction, was finally ready for a tenant.
Live music, dancing and family fun will happen Sunday at The Crest Fest at the Willow-Witt Ranch. Activities will run from 2 to 6 p.m. at Willow-Witt, located at 658 Shale City Road. Admission is $25 for adults and $10 for youth under age 18.
Dan Donohue, an 11-year actor at OSF and on Broadway as anti-hero Scar in the “Lion King,” returns to Ashland next month for Rogue Theater Company’s three-week run of “Stones in His Pockets,” opening July 17.
Brenda B. Gould: Nine months of war! Your Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Cliff Bentz, by their silence, remain complicit in the killing and starvation.
A rally to support women’s reproductive rights drew an excited crowd at Ashland Plaza on Sunday afternoon. The gathering was both festive and contentious. The stage and speakers were organized by Oregon District 2 Indivisible, a group that supports women’s rights to abortions — a hotbed topic that also drew anti-abortion protesters from around the county.
Poetry Corner: Poetry can stimulate and soothe at the same time, and in these hot summer days, a poet remembering an Ashland winter day can do both. Read, and dream about snow before going out into the summer sun.
Numerous calls are coming in about deer showing aggressive behavior to people — especially people walking their dogs — in Ashland and the surrounding area, the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife reports.
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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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