A team of local artisans and craft people have helped finish a 14-year effort to raise the curtain on the historic Holly Theatre in downtown Medford. The movie palace with its massive 1,008-seat auditorium will debut the first two acts next week, announcing the theater as a major performing arts center
A chance to see and learn about the historic U.S. Hotel building in Jacksonville will be offered during the Britt Festival Open House from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, March 2. People are invited to explore the hotel before it undergoes a significant transformation into Britt Festival’s new home.
A stretch of approximately 2,000 acres of privately owned land in the Rogue Valley with historical significance, including the likely location of a treaty signing and near the site of a massacre, is returning to the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians.
If you step into the Ashland Springs Hotel in 2025, you’re standing amid 100 years of history. When the grand hotel opened in 1925, it was the tallest structure between San Francisco and Portland — and it remained so for decades.
A management advisory committee will begin meeting to investigate the best course of action for the historic Ashland Community Center on Winburn Way, according to a release from the city. Plans call for the committee to meet three times before coming up with recommendations for the building’s future.
The “Playwrights Walk,” a new series of art installations, will bring history to the streets Ashlanders walk. Initially a dozen plaques, and eventually many more, the installation will celebrate the rich and dynamic theater culture in and around Ashland.
Established in 1904, Mountain View Cemetery is the largest of three town cemeteries owned and operated by the city of Ashland. Just over 18 acres, this tranquil oasis is bordered by the Central Bike Path, Normal Avenue, and Ashland Street.
Ashland’s 150th birthday dates from its incorporation as the City of Ashland on Oct. 13, 1874. The Oregon legislature passed a bill that was signed on that day by Governor La Fayette Grover. Ashland celebrates its 150th birthday party from 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct 20, at Butler Bandshell in Lithia Park.
Remodel efforts in the city’s long-shuttered Community Center have revealed more structural deficiencies than anticipated, raising the question whether to do extensive repair work or raze and rebuild. At its study session Monday, the Ashland City Council directed staff to investigate how best to proceed with the historic building on Winburn Way, adjacent to Pioneer Hall and across the street from Lithia Park.
A wind-driven grass fire ignited near Almeda Drive on Sept. 8, 2020, ravaged its way northwest through the wildland urban interface, destroying thousands of structures through Talent and Phoenix. The direction of the wind that day is often credited with preserving Ashland from the fire. But there was also a quick intervention from the south, when firefighters with the Greensprings Rural Fire District extinguished a vehicle fire intentionally set on fire at Emigrant Lake.
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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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