Poetry Corner: Ashland is alive with theater and music. There are so many choices: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Rogue Theater Company, Cabaret and several music venues, including the Thursday Ashland City Band concerts in Lithia Park.
Celebrating its 35th anniversary, the Clark R. Bavin National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory on East Main Street in Ashland remains the world’s only full-service wildlife crime lab, not only solving high-profile cases, but in many ways changing the game for wildlife crime.
At a half circle of folding tables in the 2200 Ashland St. building Wednesday, members of an ad hoc committee set up to discuss the property’s best use met to whittle down a list of possible ideas for the property’s future. They wrestled with finding a compromise that holds in balance the needs of all Ashland residents while answering to restrictions such as building codes and available funding.
Shakespeare enthusiasts will have a rare opportunity to dive deep into the worlds of “Much Ado About Nothing” and “Macbeth” with Barry Kraft Sept. 14-15 in Ashland.
USA Today lists Ashland’s Winchester Inn at the top of a list of the nation’s 10 best bed-and-breakfasts in an article published Aug. 14. “If this brings extra people to the valley to visit, then that’s a win for us, and that’s a win for everybody,” said owner Drew Gibbs.
Two grant opportunities worth a combined $190 million were recently opened by the U.S. Forest Service to assist private landowners in climate change adaptation and mitigation. The deadline to apply is Sept. 30.
Residents of Talent will gather outside Talent City Hall on Tuesday as part of an ongoing effort to voice concern and frustration at repeated power outages in the city throughout the summer. Affected residents will “meet and be heard” at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 27, according to a post in the Heart of Talent Facebook group. Those in the Wagner Creek area are encouraged to attend, the post said.
“It can happen again. It can happen to somebody else. It’s all on us to prevent it from happening again.” That’s what David Loftus, son of Mitzi Asai Loftus, said of the prison camps hastily built to imprison Japanese Americans in World War II during Ashland Together’s encore presentation Monday night of Mitzi’s book, “From Thorns to Blossoms: A Japanese American Family in War and Peace.”
This week’s theme: animals and seasons. Solve crossword directly in the article or download a PDF to print. More crosswords under the Culture menu.
The end of summer is approaching, and so is the deadline to apply for summer EBT benefits. The program offers $120 per child to help cover grocery costs, over and above Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamp) benefits. The application deadline is Sept. 2.
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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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