Denis Arndt, a distinguished stage and screen actor whose decades-long career spanned Shakespearean classics, Broadway triumphs, Hollywood roles, and 15 seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, died unexpectedly on March 25, 2025, at his home in Ashland. He was 85.
This week’s crossword: some of the 2025 summer programs at ScienceWorks. Solve it directly in the article or download a PDF to print. Next Friday’s crossword: “Book a Trip to the Library #02.” More crosswords under the Culture menu.
If passed, Senate Joint Resolution 28 would refer a ballot measure to Oregon voters in November to amend the state constitution so that it guarantees the “inherent, fundamental right to a clean, safe and healthy environment, including but not limited to clean air, clean water, thriving ecosystems and a stable climate system.”
The City of Ashland is currently undertaking an update of the five year “strategic plan” for spending Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Funds. The development of this plan, otherwise known
This article features the third brightly painted traffic signal box along Siskiyou Boulevard, beautified by a just-graduated SOU art student during November 2024. You will learn about the artist, her artwork and what she learned in the process of painting. The work, by artist Sidney Reha, is titled “Hands and Faces.”
Around a dozen volunteers worked Sunday to shape a series of mounds of earth at the Ashland Dirt Jumps park for what will become a new pump track skills area on a strip of land just west of the Bear Creek Greenway’s southern terminus near the Ashland Dog Park, just south of the Ashland Wastewater Treatment Plant and behind houses along Almeda Drive.
At its March 13 regular board meeting, Ashland School Board members approved a resolution authorizing the district to officially let the community know about plans to pursue a “Full Faith and Credit Loan” of “a maximum principal amount of $10 million” to stabilize its operational budget, according to a district news release issued Wednesday.
City Corner: Starting on Monday, March 31, City Manager Sabrina Cotta and Finance Director Mariane Berry will begin discussions with City Council on how to adjust service levels and revenue streams to ensure a balanced budget and fiscal sustainability in the future.
Poetry Corner: Southern Oregon celebrates theater with a variety of offerings, from Shakespeare, modern classics, and newly created.
KG Stiles: For more than 40 years, Southern Oregon has been under Republican control, yet time and again, our needs have been sidelined in favor of tax breaks for the wealthy and deregulation that hurts working families.
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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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