Riding Beyond is taking signups for volunteer training and four-week sessions. The Ashland nonprofit assists individuals who have experienced trauma through breast cancer treatment and, since 2021, have extended services to those who have experienced trauma related to COVID-19 and wildfires.
The Jackson County Animal Shelter announced that the shelter near Talent will offer reduced and waived adoption fees through Aug. 17. Dogs who have been at the shelter for 75 or more days are available with all fees waived. All other dogs are available for 50% off regular adoption rates.
Two Ashland groups that need volunteers to help feed the unhoused will host a training from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, Aug. 11 at the Ashland Public Library.
At 8:15 a.m. Wednesday, the lasting tone of a gong echoed through downtown Ashland, marking the exact time of the first of the two atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago. A minute of silence was observed by about 60 people gathered at the entrance to Lithia Park for the annual Rogue Valley Hiroshima-Nagasaki remembrance vigil.
“The Teenage Brain: Impacts on Despair, Homelessness & Substance Abuse” is a free public program at the Ashland Public Library on Sept. 2 to discuss the wide array of challenges that teens face before their brains are fully developed.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, beset by massive defunding by Congress under pressure from the Trump Administration, announced Friday that it will be forced to shut down next year. CPB will spend the next several months winding down its operations, CPB said in a news story.
ScienceWorks Hands-On Museum will host a free screening of a movie on Sunday, July 27 that looks at the power of observation.
When a wildfire hits the city of Ashland and surrounding areas, what’s your evacuation plan? An estimated 400 attendees packed the Historic Ashland Armory for a two-hour workshop Wednesday, July 16, to learn more about what to do to prepare should such a natural disaster occur in or near Ashland.
Two creative forces, Storytown Ashland and Epic Ashland, are teaming up to make the most of the city’s prime performance spaces, while spotlighting Ashland as a year-round destination for storytelling in all its forms. Upcoming events include free summer concerts at Butler Bandshell in Lithia Park and the debut of the Ashland Sarcasm Festival in early December.
Indigenous youth from around the globe signed a pact Sunday at the mouth of the Klamath River calling for the removal of dams around the world. It also came on the heels of the first source-to-sea descent of the Klamath River, which saw youth from various tribes kayak the river for the first time since four hydroelectric dams were removed in 2024.
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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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