
Adventure, live music, movies and more at Mt. Ashland
Wanting to escape the Rouge Valley heat? There’s no snow, but the Mt. Ashland Ski Area is offering a summer season of live music, movies and more.

Wanting to escape the Rouge Valley heat? There’s no snow, but the Mt. Ashland Ski Area is offering a summer season of live music, movies and more.

A cooperative effort that involved more than 50 people from Rogue Valley and Klamath Basin outdoor groups worked together recently to upgrade trails in the Fourmile Lake area.

Enjoy a sunset, learn about bats and bees, and take along your dog on free hikes being offered by the Friends of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.

For those looking to expand their Fourth of July weekend activities and get out in nature, Riding Beyond’s Rising Hope Stables in Ashland will host an interactive event with horses on Saturday, July 5.

From a fly fishing rod to a fog machine, a canner to a GoPro, the “Library of Things” has something to fit most anyone’s summer weekend bucket list.

Neil Peterson, 35, arrived in Kharkiv on Feb. 21 to work as a humanitarian volunteer. It has long been a strategically essential city targeted by Russia during its more than three-year war of aggression against Ukraine, and it is routinely hammered by Russian missile and drone strikes.

A surprise display to mark the end of Pride Month went up in Ashland early Saturday morning, June 28, Pride Day. Twenty-five Pride flags were placed on the posts of the streetlights along the dividing median on Siskiyou Boulevard from its western end at East Main Street to the Southern Oregon University campus at Garfield Street.

The second annual Mural Fest took place June 21 and 22 at ScienceWorks Hands-On Museum in Ashland. Produced by The Brothers Grime, a Southern Oregon trio, the event brought together 17 artists from across the Rogue Valley to create 8-foot by 8-foot murals in the ScienceWorks plaza.

A series of programs, including ranger-led hikes and hike-and-learn programs, are being offered this summer by the Friends of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.

It’s not necessary to be a skier and snowboarder to enjoy the Mt. Ashland Ski Area.
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