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January 2025

Environment

With Trump’s inauguration looming, Oregon Democrats strategize response

Days before President-elect Donald Trump was set to take office, Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield announced that he joined other Democratic states in court filings to preserve federal gun control rules. Rayfield and other attorneys general also intervened to protect the ability for some undocumented immigrants to enroll in health care plans through the Affordable Care Act and weeks after the new attorney general convened a group of advisers and named a top Justice Department lawyer to lead federal litigation.

January 20, 2025

Environment

Siskiyou Mountain Club lets interns get their hands dirty

The Siskiyou Mountain Club, an Ashland-based nonprofit, is hiring interns to serve on the nonprofit’s Wilderness Conservation Corps trail crew for the 2025 season. Over the years interns have come from all over the country. They work directly with stewardship professionals to rebuild trails on national forests throughout the Pacific Northwest.

January 20, 2025

Obituaries

Obituary: Denise ‘Dee’ Keevil

Obituary: Denise “Dee” Keevil, of Exeter Township, passed away at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in, Bernville, Pennsylvania, her family at her bedside. She was 69. Dee Keevil was a preschool teacher who loved and nurtured every child under her care.

January 19, 2025

Events

Hundreds gather at benefit concert to support ‘vulnerable communities’

Residents from across Southern Oregon made the trip to Oak Knoll Golf Course in Ashland on Saturday, Jan. 18, for a “benefit concert for vulnerable communities” co-sponsored by Women’s March Southern Oregon and ORD2 Indivisible.

January 19, 2025

Events

Dozens demonstrate on Ashland Plaza for women’s rights

A group of about 40, mostly women, gathered in near-freezing weather Saturday morning on the East Main Street side of Ashland Plaza to show their support for women’s rights, from reproductive autonomy to equality across the board.

January 18, 2025

Events

Ashland celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday

Ashland’s 37th annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration is set for noon to 1:30 p.m. Monday at the Historic Ashland Armory in downtown Ashland. The event is free and open to the public.

January 18, 2025

City Government

Fee on fossil-fuel appliances in new homes up for council vote Tuesday

At its first meeting of the new year Tuesday, the Ashland City Council is expected to sew up loose threads from last year with votes to approve the 2200 Ashland St. Master Plan, formally create an Ashland Parks & Recreation Department and the first reading of an ordinance to mitigate carbon pollution for new residential structures, according to meeting materials.

January 17, 2025

Ask Strider

Ask Strider: The friend column

Ask Strider: Our advice columnist turns to the problems of making friends and keeping them. As usual, he counsels restraint in troubled friendships, and asks the Old Cedar Tree what to do about making friends in the first place. The Old Cedar Tree has interesting thoughts on the subject.

January 17, 2025

City Government

Suspect arrested for vandalism in Railroad and Lithia parks

A vandalism incident that left damage from large tire marks in Railroad and Lithia parks will cost thousands to repair and is part of a larger trend of vandalism in the city’s parks, according to Ashland Parks Superintendent Kevin Caldwell.

January 17, 2025

Rogue Theater Company Ashland Oregon

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Crossword: Rogue Theater Company 2025

This week’s crossword: Rogue Theater Company 2025. Solve it directly in the article or download a PDF to print. Next week’s crossword: “ExtraORdinary Places #02.” More crosswords under the Culture menu.

January 17, 2025

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