Former Ashland councilor Eric Navickas was arrested following an accusation of racist comments and a subsequent altercation with Police Chief Tighe O’Meara during an Ashland City Council meeting Tuesday evening.
Sarah F. Burns of Talent, the Siskiyou Crest Coalition’s (SCC’s) first Acorn Woman Lookout Artist in Residence, will begin her five-day residency in the former U.S. National Forest Service fire lookout on Tuesday.
Former Ashland City Council candidate Eric Navickas was arrested after a scuffle with Ashland Chief of Police Tighe O’Meara following an accusation of racist comments during the Ashland City Council business meeting Tuesday.
Benjamin Ben-Baruch: Biden, who professed to want to spread democracy, was a significant figure in the rise of fascism in the US.
Ask Strider: In this column, a reader wants to know what to do if they’ve been censored at the dinner table. And Strider shares a list of some of his favorite foods, even though he admits he doesn’t like sharing his food bowl.
After one of the most contested Ashland School Board races in recent history, voters in the May 20 special election had their say, selecting two newcomers to the board and voting to keep an incumbent.
Jackson County voters have spoken at the ballot box.
As “Monumental Beauty” reminds us, the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, from Pilot Rock and Grizzly Peak to lesser known areas, includes more than 200 species of birds, at least 120 species of butterflies and a rare combination of trees and wildflowers from multiple ecosystems.
Ashland nonprofit Sunstone Housing Collaborative is one of several southern Oregon nonprofits awarded with Oregon Community Foundation grant funds in honor of the late Bill Thorndike, a prominent southern Oregon businessman and Southern Oregon University trustee who passed away in February.
James Lobsenz: King Donald now claims that he can ignore a right that no English king has dared to ignore since King John. The only people with the authority to stop King Donald are the justices of the Supreme Court. Writing your representatives in Congress won’t do any good. Write the justices.
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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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