To better protect one’s home and loved ones from wildfire smoke, a Saturday event will provide attendees with the materials and assistance to create a household air filter. The event is free and open to the public, which will have its choice of two sessions to choose from: 11 a.m. to noon or 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Saturday.
Jim Hatton: It has been said that if we can observe something, we are not that. In essence, we are consciousness. We are that which is doing the observing.
Trita Parsi: “Today the U.S. can still stop the region from descending into chaos, but only if it is willing to put clear and public red lines in front of Netanyahu.”
Obituary: Ann Brown, also known as Yoga Robiya, was born in Atlanta in 1927. She saved enough money to take a sabbatical and travel to India, where she met the spiritual teacher Osho Rajneesh and became his disciple. She died Aug. 14 at Celia’s House Hospice in Medford.
The final paperwork for potential candidates running for office in Ashland during the November election is being processed by the Jackson County Clerk’s office and will be ready soon, according to city of Ashland Interim Recorder Alissa Kolodzinski. The deadline to file for candidacy was Monday, Aug. 19.
In a five-to-one vote at the Tuesday evening City Council business meeting Sabrina Cotta was appointed city manager of Ashland. Councilor Gina DuQuenne opposed Mayor Tonya Graham’s proposal to appoint Cotta on the grounds of what she said is “due diligence and due process” owed to the residents of Ashland.
Notice is hereby given that on September 10, the Ashland Planning Commission will hold a Public Hearing at 7:00 p.m. at the Ashland Civic Center, 1175 East Main Street for
Brandon Mencini, chief executive officer for Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center and Asante Ashland Community Hospital, offered vague but firm reassurance that Ashland Community Hospital will not close to the Ashland City Council at its study session Monday night after discussion of the hospital’s status was added in a last minute change to the agenda.
Review: When you listen to the retrospective of Jimmy Buffett’s life, now playing as “Spotlight on Jimmy Buffett” at the Camelot Theatre, you are reminded of several things: the number of compositions the singer-songwriter created over his 50-year career, his sense of humor and easygoing persona and the wonderful, relatable lyrics and melodies that became spring break anthems in so many people’s lives.
Review: In “Devils Island,” Midge Raymond and John Yunker bring together exotic locales, environmentalism, and murder in a whodunit with a sharp psychological edge. The devils on Devils Island ostensibly refer to the Tasmanian Devils, large carnivorous marsupials who are in danger of extinction due to a facial tumor disease. Could they kill a human? Would they?
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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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