Earlier this summer people living on the south end of Ashland experienced power outages due to safety settings on equipment owned by Pacific Power.
Jim Flint: When he returned, he told me to leave my cane at the doorway. “So the magnetic field won’t suck it into the MRI machine.” Which raised the question: If it could suck in a cane, what about my fillings?
Review: “Tales of the Direwood” echoes Shakespearean themes used in “Hamlet,” “King Lear” and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Add a bit of Joseph Campbell’s myth and the zany style of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, and you get a blend of present-day and ever-universal elements done in audacious ways.
Alison Laughlin: I encourage anyone to attend a city government meeting — City Council, Planning Commission, city Parks Commission, etc. Democracy needs citizen participation.
Students returned to seven district campuses across the Ashland School District for the first full day of school Tuesday, Aug. 26.
A water conservation order that went out Tuesday morning to residents of the city of Talent and other Rogue Valley cities using water from the Medford Water Commission (MWC) system due to a power outage at its water treatment plant will remain in effect “until further notice,” MWC announced Wednesday afternoon. Not affected are the city of Ashland, which has its own water supply system, and those on private wells or on private water systems.
Big-name comedians will perform at the Holly Theatre in Medford on Sept. 5 at the BASE Southern Oregon Comedy inaugural Comedy Jam. The event will raise money for local youth and community initiatives.
Classes start for all Ashland students on Tuesday, Aug. 26, as the 2025-26 school year kicks off and, with it, some new leadership at Ashland schools, including new interim principals Francisco Lopez Atanes at Ashland High School and Susan Hollandsworth at Helman Elementary School.
The National Weather Service issued another red flag warning for Tuesday, Aug. 26, as forecasters expect lightning on dry fuels on an already parched landscape. A fire burning southwest of Mount Ashland on Monday prompted issuance of a Level 1 (be ready) evacuation order in that area.
Obituary: Gladys Sonja Stalions passed away peacefully in her Medford home on July 30. She was 87.
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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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