Southern Oregon Climate Action Now launched its premier Green Business Recognition ceremony on Thursday, June 12, with a “green ribbon cutting” at a four-plex built out of straw bales on Wightman Street in Ashland.
Southern Oregon VegFest: Meet new sanctuary animals and discover new earth-friendly local businesses at Tikkun Olam Farm Sanctuary’s third annual festival and fundraiser in Phoenix, featuring plant-based food trucks, a marketplace showcasing Rogue Valley businesses and nonprofits, and family events from yoga to hay rides to face painting.
A kitchen serving daily meals to those in need was unveiled to a small group of supporters Thursday evening at Opportunities for Housing, Resources and Assistance.
As “Monumental Beauty” reminds us, the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, from Pilot Rock and Grizzly Peak to lesser known areas, includes more than 200 species of birds, at least 120 species of butterflies and a rare combination of trees and wildflowers from multiple ecosystems.
Ashland nonprofit Sunstone Housing Collaborative is one of several southern Oregon nonprofits awarded with Oregon Community Foundation grant funds in honor of the late Bill Thorndike, a prominent southern Oregon businessman and Southern Oregon University trustee who passed away in February.
Plans are moving ahead to replace the two oldest chairlifts at the Mt. Ashland Ski Area.
Catty Corner: Studies have revealed the importance of companion animals to those in the unhoused community, and — whether cats, dogs, birds or other animals — an Ashland shelter is committed to keeping families together.
Recipients include the Ashland Community Food Bank, which will put the money toward expansion of the nonprofit’s home delivery program for Ashland and Talent residents with health, mobility or transportation challenges.
Ashland children can start playing little league at three years old and keep playing until they’re 12 (and sometimes a little older) through the Ashland Little League nonprofit organization, but access to the sport depends on access to fields and facilities, said Ashland Little League Board President Kari Pennell.
The Rogue Valley Symphony recently revealed the lineup for its 2025-26 season and it starts out with a bang — a weeklong festival of three concerts in late August at Medford’s Craterian Theater, featuring the debut of the symphony’s newly acquired 9-foot Hamburg Steinway grand piano, the Raven.
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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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