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‘First Descent’ underway: Kayakers following undammed river
The “First Descent,” a 30-day paddle from the Wood River along the Klamath River to the Pacific Ocean near Requa, California, began Thursday.
June 13, 2025
The “First Descent,” a 30-day paddle from the Wood River along the Klamath River to the Pacific Ocean near Requa, California, began Thursday.
Ashland-based Cafe-Girl Thriving Artists is producing a benefit show, “Celebrate Art, Celebrate Life,” for the Barnstormers Theatre at 112 NE Evelyn Ave., Grants Pass, on Friday, June 20.
Supporters of imprisoned wildland firefighter Brian “Hakiym” Simpson and a defense attorney who represented him in court are sending an almost 3,000-signature petition and letter to Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, urging her to exonerate the 42-year-old and have him released from prison.
Tomi Hazel Vaarde, author of “Social Forestry: Tending the Land as People of Place,” will speak next week at the Northwest Nature Shop at 154 Oak St., Ashland, from 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 23.
The 32nd annual powwow organized by the Native American Student Union (NASU) Saturday and Sunday in Lithia Motors Pavilion at Southern Oregon University celebrated Native American culture through music, dance, art, food and more.
The Native American Student Union (NASU) at Southern Oregon University (SOU) will be hosting their 32nd annual powwow April 12 and 13. The intertribal powwow will offer food, music, dancing, and opportunities for shopping from Native owned businesses.
Review: At a time when so much erasure of Black stories and glory is happening around us, it feels especially fitting and delicious that two of Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s season-opening shows — James Ijames’s “Fat Ham” and August Wilson’s “Jitney” — involve all-Black casts shining in transformative and celebrated plays by Black American playwrights.
In recent weeks, a cascade of actions from the Trump administration has represented a “grave threat” to health care, social, educational and other critical services in Indian Country, including for Native American communities in the Northwest, tribal leaders say.
Black Alliance & Social Empowerment member Kim McKandes describes the organization, founded in 2019 by Executive Director Vance Beach in conjunction with a Juneteenth celebration, as “existing to make sure Oregon is a safe place for African Americans to live.”
A full house gathered Monday night at Rogue Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship to better understand current changes to federal immigration policy and to hear how they might support immigrants in the local community.
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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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