Events
KS Wild’s annual dinner set for this weekend
KS Wild will celebrate their annual dinner event Saturday, Sept. 27, at the historic Ashland Armory, 208 Oak St.
September 25, 2025
KS Wild will celebrate their annual dinner event Saturday, Sept. 27, at the historic Ashland Armory, 208 Oak St.
Ashland’s Parks & Recreation Commission plans to vote Sept. 10 on a nearly $3.4M budget—up $500,000 from earlier estimates. Phase one won’t include a playground, but commissioners say it’s time to move forward.
The conversation about the troubled East Main Park project — now $500,000 over budget — continued on Monday, Aug. 18, during the Ashland City Council study session.
Around 80 individuals — from neighbors who have lived in south Ashland for years to cyclists from Ashland DEVO, a youth mountain bike group — overflowed the chairs at Ashland Senior Center for an open house about East Main Park hosted by Ashland Parks & Recreation on Thursday evening, Aug. 14.
The Parks & Recreation Commission on Wednesday recommended updated rental rates for the historic Ashland Community Center and Pioneer Hall. The rates, which factor in cleaning and administrative costs, go to the City Council on Sept. 16 for review.
An ongoing verbal volley over pickleball again played out at a meeting with city officials and residents on Tuesday, July 15, at Garfield Park as Ashland’s Parks and Recreation Department implements a $20 per hour fee to reserve pickleball courts at Lithia Park.
The Ashland parade will begin at 9:30 a.m., half an hour earlier than in the past. “We hope that pulling things forward will help with avoiding some of the afternoon heat,” said Dana Preston of the Ashland Chamber of Commerce.
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.
Crater Lake National Park’s superintendent, Kevin Heatley, resigned from overseeing the park, citing cuts to the park’s staff. Since January, Heatley has seen Crater Lake’s permanent workforce cut in half, and onboarding seasonal staff was delayed by a month. “Things are not OK,” Heatley told OPB on Monday.
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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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