Ask Strider: This week, the Dog About Town says everyone is invited to Ashland.news, and everyone should be invited to a family dinner, no matter what their dietary preferences. As long as we’re all grateful for what we’ve got. And he means it, too.
Ask Strider: A reader suggests that Strider would make a great president, but the Dog About Town demurs. Also, there’s an update about Woody the Puppy Intern. He’s now Woody the Dog, and it’s time for him to find his own footing out in the world.
Ask Strider: This column, a reader asks how Strider deals with bullies. Another reader sends good wishes and praise. And a third reader asks the burning question: Pizza with pineapple or without?
Ask Strider: A reader asks if Strider has some advice for getting along with the “cats” in his life. And why does a human who has everything bother being angry at others? Good questions for Strider!
Ask Strider: A reader wants to know why a dog advice column is taking up space when the world is on fire. And another reader asks if Strider is prepared for a fire on his home turf. As usual, our Dog About Town does the best he can to pour water on the flames of anxiety.
Ask Strider: Our advice columnist loves getting praise and feels his failures as much as the next dog. But as long as he’s loved, who cares?
Ask Strider: Our advice columnist turns to the problems of making friends and keeping them. As usual, he counsels restraint in troubled friendships, and asks the Old Cedar Tree what to do about making friends in the first place. The Old Cedar Tree has interesting thoughts on the subject.
Ask Strider: In this column greeting the new year, Strider is grateful for so many things — people, memories and feelings, good and bad. From an organization that helps dogs on the street, to a reader imagining a chip encoded with a dog’s entire story, to the warmth of kind wishes during sad times, Strider embraces it all. His paw on your foot. Really.
Ask Strider: In this column, our advice columnist urges a frazzled volunteer to slow down and enjoy the winter. He also celebrates the holiday season, which for Strider and Woody is every day they are with their loved ones.
Ask Strider: In this column, a reader wonders how they should handle the end of a loved one’s life. Strider has sad experience of this, and puts his paw firmly on the reader’s foot, to offer what support and comfort his own story might give.
Carrie Dahle: Living in a historic home also means working with the right people. Contractors and craftsmen who understand the quirks of older homes can make all the difference.
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.
Poetry Corner: The Poetry Corner continues to celebrate the renewal that theater and old growth forests bring to Southern Oregon. Poets Pepper Trail and Bruce McConnell approach age and renewal from different perspectives, different settings, and all the ambiguity offered by both.
The Rogue Valley Symphony recently revealed the lineup for its 2025-26 season and it starts out with a bang — a weeklong festival of three concerts in late August at Medford’s Craterian Theater, featuring the debut of the symphony’s newly acquired 9-foot Hamburg Steinway grand piano, the Raven.
Haleigh Martin: Our staff at KS Wild and Rogue Riverkeeper have pulled together a list of our favorite springtime hikes to get you outside and inspired by this incredible region we get to call home.
A crowd of between three and four hundred people gathered on Ashland Plaza on Saturday afternoon, then spread out onto nearby sidewalks along East Main Street as cars honked and protesters cheered. It was part of a large number of demonstrations nationwide as opponents of President Donald Trump’s administration took to the streets of communities large and small across the U.S.
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