The Rogue Composite Vultures, composed of riders ranging from Ashland to Grants Pass, participated in the Oregon Interscholastic Cycling League State Championship XC Mountain Bike Race held Oct. 20 in Prineville. Fifteen Rogue Valley racers participated in the field of 404 from 19 teams across the state.
Ashland was recently ranked a top U.S. bike town by Outside, a major national outdoors magazine, based on high ratings from nonprofits that rate bike-friendliness of U.S. cities combined with the plethora of trails available to ride.
Mt. Ashland Ski Area hopes the community will come through with half a million dollars in donations as it prepares for a series of expansion projects that target growth areas at the nonprofit ski area and improved weather resiliency.
Just over two years after a three-alarm fire destroyed their original building in Ashland Plaza, Mountain Provisions has finally reopened their doors, this time in a new spot downtown. After a long struggle with insurance (that’s still going on) and switch of plans, their new location at 357 E. Main St. opened its doors to customers on July 5.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed whitebark pine as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act in 2023. It lives at the ecological edge, only at the very top of the mountains it inhabits, at timberline and above 7,500 feet elevation. It is a slow-growing, charismatic species that is often sculpted by the harsh conditions in which it lives.
The Siskiyou Crest Coalition, based in southwest Oregon, sponsored a unique fundraiser on July 13: a day of guided hikes at a private property on Mount Ashland. The emphasis of the day’s activities was on the ecological value of the Siskiyou Crest: the unparalleled biodiversity resulting from ecosystem niches influenced by six biotic regions; its importance as a wildlife connectivity corridor; and its astonishing number of endemic botanical species.
Michael Dotson: June is a great month to get out onto local public lands and trails, and there are plenty of hiking options for folks to enjoy with a quick drive out of the Rogue Valley.
Summer activities begin Friday, June 14, when the Mt. Ashland lodge will open its restaurant and retail shop to the public every Friday, Saturday and Sunday through Labor Day.
Mt. Ashland Ski Area grooming supervisor Bill Archer is being remembered for his love of the ski area, his devotion to his workers and the wisdom he left behind. Archer, 56, died suddenly Dec. 21, and a massive outpouring of support has followed.
It’s taken longer than usual but the wait is almost over. The Mt. Ashland Ski Area will open for the season Thursday. Despite the later than usual opening, Thursday’s opening is fitting because Mt. Asland’s 60th anniversary season will begin exactly 60 years to the day after its first-ever opening in 1964.
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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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