Break out the downhill and snowboards. It’s almost time to go skiing and riding. Abundant snowfall means the Mt. Ashland Ski Area will open early for the 2024/25 winter season on Friday, Dec. 6, with Season Passholder Appreciation Day. The area will open to all on Saturday, Dec. 7. Both days the Sonnet, Comer, and Windsor chairlifts will operate from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Santa flipped the switch officially launching Ashland’s holiday season Friday evening, shortly after anchoring a parade along East Main Street from the library to the Plaza, accompanied by merry bands of bicyclists, stilt walkers, dancers, marching band members and a feisty troupe of devoted reindeer.
More than 200 people turned out Thursday for the ninth Community Peace Meal and Thanksgiving Celebration at the First Presbyterian Church of Ashland, according to organizers Jason and Vanessa Houk of Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice, which does the Peace Meal every Thursday and Friday in Lithia Park near the bandshell at 3:30 p.m., rain or shine.
A brief commotion in the parking lot of Rite Aid in south Ashland Thanksgiving evening was due to the trigger of the building’s alarm, according to Ashland Deputy Chief of Police Dan Moulin. No one was found inside the closed business, nor was there any evidence of a crime. It is unknown what tripped the alarm, he said.
Last March the Ashland Community Food Bank saw a 140% spike in demand. SNAP, formerly known as food stamps, benefits were reduced and many COVID protection programs such as eviction protection ended. Now, it takes about 60,000 pounds of food every month to feed those directly “shopping” at the food bank, but also to restock little satellite pantries around Ashland, such as at the library and at the Ashland Senior Center.
This week’s crossword: selected course titles from OLLI’s Winter 2025 catalog. Solve it directly in the article or download a PDF to print. Next week’s crossword: “Camelot 2025 #01.” More crosswords under the Culture menu.
Oregon Democrats appear to have eked out a supermajority in both the state House and Senate, with a narrow win confirmed in a rural Woodburn-based House seat late Tuesday. Lesly Muñoz’s victory doesn’t just mean Democrats regain the seat they lost two years ago — it gives House Democrats the three-fifths majority needed to increase taxes or pass new taxes without Republican support.
The Oak Knoll Men’s Golf Club of Ashland held its annual Thanksgiving “Turkey Shoot” on Saturday, Nov. 23. The group donated more than $440 and 500 pounds of food to the Ashland Food Bank.
Herbert Rothschild: The killing will continue unabated, unless Donald Trump actually does have a magic wand with which he’ll fix all the world’s problems. He can hardly do worse than Biden has done.
Tuesday, December 3, 2024 Council Chambers, 1175 E Main Street Live stream viarvtv.sou.edu select RVTV Prime. Recorded meetings are available on our website. Public testimony will be accepted for both public
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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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