Thousands of costumed characters packed downtown Ashland on Thursday afternoon, making their along Main Street from Ashland Public Library to Ashland Plaza for the Ashland Chamber of Commerce’s Children’s Halloween Parade, which annually draws large numbers of children of all ages. According to one officer, it was the most people he’s seen in years.
As the weather chills, the city of Ashland continues to wrestle with how to best operate its severe weather shelter in and plan the overall future of its building at 2200 Ashland St. While the city’s threshold for calling the severe weather shelter in winter is 32 degrees, there is some room for variation depending on accompanying weather conditions, duration of conditions and available resources, Ashland City Manager Sabrina Cotta said Wednesday.
After the AIFF opened the doors to their newly remodeled center, the COVID-19 pandemic hit, leading the festival to go virtual. Now, the AIFF is up and running with their first in person event to be held since 2019.
Herbert Rothschild: The sanctions we impose on other countries have never achieved our stated aims — usually regime change. They have succeeded in inflicting suffering and death on the resident populations.
“Gidion’s Knot,” the new offering by the Rogue Theater Company, is 90 minutes of intense confrontation as two women, Heather, a fifth-grade teacher, and Corryn, the mother of Gideon, one of Heather’s students, meet for a parent-teacher conference.
“One Brick at a Time: Rebuilding the Oregon Shakespeare Festival” is a free public program at the Ashland Public Library on Nov. 12 to discuss the comprehensive process OSF has used to rebuild following the Covid-19 pandemic, focusing on several key areas of transformation.
In a special meeting Wednesday evening, Ashland City Council ended up voting unanimously to appoint Ryan Mulkins as municipal judge for the city, even though three councilors voted for another candidate as their top choice in an initial round of voting.
A performance at the Ashland Community Center a quarter century ago led to a trip this week to New York City by Jahnna Beecham and Malcolm Hillgartner of Ashland. They’re there to pitch an adaptation of Tomáseen Foley’s story “Parcel From America” to New York producers, directors, other theater professionals and Irish influencers.
The Ashland Police Department will be out and ready to ensure a fun and safe annual children’s Halloween parade, according to a department release Wednesday. The parade begins at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Halloween, in front of the Ashland Public Library at 410 Siskiyou Blvd., then proceeds west along East Main Street to the Plaza.
The city of Ashland will conduct controlled burns in lower Siskiyou Mountain Park and at the top of Granite Street on Wednesday, Oct. 30, according to a news alert on the city website. The controlled burns are intended to reduce wildfire risk. Smoke from these operations may impact parts of Ashland, including trails in the lower Siskiyou Mountain Park and along Wonder Trail.
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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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