Art
Talent Art Walk is Friday evening
Local artists and creators will showcase their work from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, July 25, at the Talent Art Walk.
July 24, 2025
Local artists and creators will showcase their work from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, July 25, at the Talent Art Walk.
A high school football cultural exchange started in Ashland in 1988 between Ashland High School and the Japan All-Stars, made up of student athletes from multiple high schools in Japan. Today, the Japan All-Stars are made up of 47 players from 17 schools from Osaka, Kyoto, and Kobe, and 55 players from the Ashland and Phoenix high school football programs.
The Rogue Valley Transportation District Board of Directors approved a plan that will cut two bus routes in Ashland.
An ongoing verbal volley over pickleball again played out at a meeting with city officials and residents on Tuesday, July 15, at Garfield Park as Ashland’s Parks and Recreation Department implements a $20 per hour fee to reserve pickleball courts at Lithia Park.
Gov. Tina Kotek’s plan to prevent layoffs at the Oregon Department of Transportation and local governments around the state relies on a 6-cent gas tax increase, hikes to title and registration fees and doubling the payroll tax that funds transit.
Oregon will receive federal emergency funding to support recovery efforts in three southwest counties that experienced intense storms and floods between March 13- 20. The floods resulted in nearly $9.5 million in damage according to the Oregon Emergency Management Department.
Local activists plan to stage a rally and food drive in response to President Donald Trump’s federal tax and spending bill that was signed into law earlier this month. The rally is scheduled for 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, July 26, on Ashland Plaza.
Lucie K. Scheuer: “Ripcord,” a play by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Lindsay-Abaire, about two older women sharing a room in a New Jersey retirement home, is one of those plays (that make you think).
An Ashland man accused of opening fire on passing motorists and responding law enforcement officers was indicted this week in Jackson County Court on charges . that include attempted murder.
Review: A limited run at the Collaborative Theatre Project of “Dear Jack, Dear Louise,” a play set at Camp White outside of Medford during World War II, has audiences giving standing ovations. See it if you can.
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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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