The Shasta map is especially relevant to hikers and climbers in Southern Oregon because it includes the popular Avalanche Gulch route on the south side of Shasta to the more challenging, less traveled Hotlum-Bolum Ridge and Bolum Glacier north-side routes.
Poetry Corner: Poetry and satire go hand-in-hand when confronting political bombast and those who enable such outrageous behavior.
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.
A locally-based travel intensive care unit nurse since 2015, Sonia (Munoz) Santiago is also a self-published writer.
Jackson County Library Services (JCLS) launched its annual summer reading program for all ages Sunday, June 1. The Beanstack Summer Reading Challenge continues until Aug. 31. The summer reading theme this year is “Embrace the Wild.”
Poetry Corner: A humorous sonnet and a sad narrative make for a what-if poem and a should-have-I story of pining for stardom.
“I still find there are people here,” he said, referring to Southern Oregon and far Northern California, “who don’t there is a national monument here, so it seemed important to build public awareness, especially at this time.”
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.
Book bags provided by Friends of the Ashland Public Library were given to all students with their favorite books inside, personalized just for them, as well as special gifts donated by community partners.
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.
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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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