The Jefferson Baroque Orchestra is sailing into its 32nd season with renewed vigor, a wave of fresh talent and a clear vision under music director and harpsichordist Abigail Mace.
A monsoonal air mass moving into Southern Oregon is bringing an elevated risk of lightning on an already dry landscape, prompting the National Weather Service in Medford to issue a red flag warning.
What do Robin Hood, Miss Marple, Roaring ’20s Chicago, Dracula, and Anne of Green Gables have in common?
Derreck Moore, the new traffic enforcement officer at the Ashland Police Department, met with members of the Transportation Advisory Committee last week as they conducted their regular six-month review of crash and near-miss data for the city.
Matt Jones: The city appears to be spending millions of taxpayer dollars on projects where the public has little to no say in how the funds are allocated. A survey conducted by Ashland.news to gather readers’ opinions on these projects and the spending on controversial issues is suggested.
Ashland School District officials plan to make arrangements over the weekend to relocate an alternative education program from Lincoln School to Ashland High School following the emergency closure of the nearly 100-year-old building after an annual inspection by the city fire marshal turned up severe structural issues.
Wildfire experts from a nonprofit that helps people harden their homes from wildfire, which helps keep their insurance premiums from rising, joined local leaders and residents during a Thursday, Aug. 21, webinar to share their latest findings on how homes ignite during wildfires — and how to prevent it from happening in Ashland.
UPDATE: The Lincoln School in Ashland was closed on Thursday by the city’s Fire Marshal following a fire inspection. The closure impacts two educational programs housed at Lincoln. The district is working to contact families about where their children will attend classes on Monday.
Herbert Rothschild: It’s historically fitting that Israel has succeeded apartheid South Africa as an international pariah, because from the 1960s through the 1980s Israel sold South Africa aircraft, radar and other advanced weapons systems, and it assisted South Africa’s RSA missile program. Most egregiously, it helped South Africa develop nuclear weapons.
This week’s crossword: more course titles from the OLLI@SOU 2025 Fall catalog. Solve it directly in the article or download a PDF to print. Next Friday’s crossword: “All in a Day’s Work #02.” More crosswords under the Culture menu.
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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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