“Floreana” is the title of Ashland author Midge Raymond’s latest novel, a captivating tale of love, loss and murder with an environmental twist. You can join Raymond for an author talk at the Ashland Public Library at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3.
A series of first readings for ordinances to amend and extend the city of Ashland’s Enhanced Law Enforcement Area (ELEA) before the Ashland City Council at Tuesday’s business meeting were unanimously deferred for further discussion at a later meeting.
This week’s crossword is about certain birds around town. Solve it directly in the article or download a PDF to print. Next week’s crossword: “CrosspOLLInation 2025 Winter.” More crosswords under the Culture menu.
After months of continuous work, members of the 2200 Ashland Street Ad Hoc Master Plan Committee presented a plan to Ashland City Council for the first time Monday, leaving the council to begin the difficult conversation of how to fund the plan’s recommendations.
Herbert Rothschild: During his campaign Trump pledged to renew his efforts to destroy the federal civil service.
Ashland-based Two Sisters Writing & Publishing has published two new books addressing how to live your best life and ways to overcome harms from religious and other life experiences. “Joyously Free” provides “stories and tips to live your truth as LGBTQ+ people, parents and allies,” and “Healing Religious Hurts” offers “stories and tips to find love and peace.”
Ask Strider: This column, our advice columnist slyly points out the main advantage of aging. And wonders why we’re putting up with the discombobulation of Daylight Savings Time when regular time is perfectly all right on its own.
Ashland residents in need will have a few places to look for the festive food and companionship that defines the Thanksgiving holiday. Those who want to offer their help can volunteer or donate in a few places.
Review: “Pine Mountain Lodge,” the newest offering at the Oregon Cabaret Theatre, is a play that tugs at a range of emotions. At times it’s laugh-out-loud funny, other times shadowed with despair.
The Ashland City Council wrestled Monday with prioritizing a list of potential actions to help the city contend with homelessness. After lengthy discussion, staff was instructed to return in six months with additional information on adding public restrooms, storage, a livability team, street outreach and the potential for public device-charging stations.
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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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