Most new state-owned buildings will need to be earthquake-proof and, by 2060, all buildings owned or leased by the state for executive branch agencies will need to make earthquake-safety upgrades or be replaced under an executive order Gov. Tina Kotek signed Monday.
The 2020 Almeda Fire destroyed 144 homes at the Mountain View Estates. Five years later, the manufactured home park for people over 55 has rebuilt 90 “firewise” homes and last year was recognized nationally as the area’s first firewise community.
Obituary: Bettie Lou Sheldon Frye passed away at her daughter’s home in Talent on Aug. 19. She was 97. A celebration of her life will be held this fall.
About 30 friends, coworkers and neighbors came together on Monday, Sept. 8, to remember Matthew Mark Vandersande — a man they described as joyful, kind and inspiring. Meantime, police continue to ask for information that could lead to the arrest of Vandersande’s killer.
Obituary: Kenneth “Shady” Wendell Challman passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family, on Aug. 21. A celebration of life will be held on Oct. 11 at Oak Knoll Golf Course in Ashland from 4 to 6 p.m.
Mary Martin was one of about 20 people who gathered on the lawn of the 1st Phoenix Presbyterian Church in Phoenix on Monday morning to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Almeda Fire, which burned more than 2,600 households out of their homes in Phoenix, Talent and south Medford on Sept. 8, 2020.
The Ashland Independent Film Festival is moving forward on two fronts this fall: keeping audiences engaged with a lively monthly screening series and welcoming longtime programmer Aura Johnson as its new director of programming.
Volunteers from Phoenix and Talent lined the streets of Talent with over 100 vases of sunflowers and brightly colored flowers, continuing a tradition born out of grief and hope in the aftermath of the Almeda Fire. First started in 2020 with anonymous buckets labeled, “from fire to flowers,” the gesture has grown in the five years since the devastating blaze, symbolizing the town’s “hope and resilience.”
An Ashland man is dead after being shot multiple times in his vehicle near A and North Second Streets, a little after 3:30 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 7.
Ryan Pfeil: On my eldest daughter’s first day of kindergarten, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020, the day after Labor Day, a column of smoke that seems to reach 10,000 feet high dances on the horizon with an imprecise cruelty. I watch it as I shovel clothes and important documents — whatever the hell you’re supposed to grab first if a fire is bearing down on your home — into my truck.
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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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