The Southern Oregon women’s basketball team became the first in Cascade Conference history to finish the regular season undefeated after an 87-65 victory over Multnomah on Saturday at Lithia Motors Pavilion.
Daniel Molina: My college professor and classical theater mentor, Lawrence Ballard, was the first person to tell me about Ashland. He said, ‘Any actor who is serious about classical work knows Ashland is the place to be.’”
Paul R. Huard: Monday marks the three-year anniversary of Russia’s war against Ukraine. If it falls, Europe is next — and twice in the 20th Century the United States came to the military aid of Europe not because we were nice, but because of the hard-edged political and economic reality that a totalitarian Europe would be a danger to our nation.
Michael O’Looney: Now it’s time to think about what our democracy might look like four years from now. Will we even recognize it?
Nurses would be paid more and receive compensation for missing breaks under a tentative agreement reached by Providence Health & Services and the Oregon Nurses Association that could end a six-week-long strike.
City Council considered but came to little consensus concerning four proposed changes to the city’s Enhanced Law Enforcement Area and criminal code during a Wednesday evening study session called to make up for a snowed-out scheduled session Feb. 3.
Permits and corresponding fees will temporarily not be required for the removal of hazard trees in Ashland in response to damage from the recent winter storms, according to a release from the city of Ashland.
Selene Aitken: I set an intention to be present without distraction. No Wordle, no crossword, no Scrabble, no headlines, no texts. Not easy.
Ashland’s Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker, with a succession of previous owners and operations across multiple locations, may have reached its final destination after being acquired last year by 1-800-Flowers.Com, Inc., parent company of Harry & David. Joseph Rowland, group president of Gourmet Foods & Gift Baskets, Harry & David, said the company has no plans to move Scharffen Berger’s production into the Harry & David campus in Medford.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that there will be a Special Meeting of the Ashland Planning Commission will take place at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 25, 2025, in the Council
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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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