Just ahead of the beginning of fire season on Sunday, June 1, Ashland Fire & Rescue has completed training with a new engine designed for wildland urban interface and regional support.
Herbert Rothschild: I hope Navickas will summon the humility to apologize to O’Meara and O’Meara will summon the grace to accept his apology and let the whole matter drop. Millions of people around the globe are being violently assaulted and crying out for our help. Mere misbehavior shouldn’t divert our attention from evil.
Get down with music in this week’s crossword. Solve it directly in the article or download a PDF to print. Next Friday’s crossword: “Eat One’s Words #03.” More crosswords under the Culture menu.
A kitchen serving daily meals to those in need was unveiled to a small group of supporters Thursday evening at Opportunities for Housing, Resources and Assistance.
With just over a week left in the school year, Bellview Elementary students were treated Thursday to an out-of-this-world performance of “Alien, the Musical”—a quirky and creative production put on annually by the school’s fifth-grade class.
Repairs on selected Ashland streets that began Thursday, May 29 is scheduled to complete Tuesday, June 10, according to a City of Ashland press release sent Wednesday, May 28.
The current collective bargaining agreement with the Association of Professors of Southern Oregon University was set to expire in August. Instead, faculty members will receive 2% cost-of-living adjustments for each of the next two fiscal years.
The names, levels of dominance, and routes to the trophy have changed during a once-implausible run of four championships in six years, but one thing has not at the NAIA Softball World Series: Southern Oregon is inevitable.
“Unreal!” is a new devised performance created by the Empowered Arts Ensemble, empoweredartsensemble.org. Performances are at 5 p.m. June 6 and 7 p.m. June 7 at the Bellview Grange, 1050 Tolman Creek Road.
From enchanted forests and 9/11 airport runways to Pittsburgh backyards and Shakespearean battlegrounds, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s newly announced 2026 season delivers 10 powerful productions that span centuries and genres — each exploring what it means to rise, connect and move forward in uncertain times.
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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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