Ask Strider
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Ask Strider: This week, Strider comforts an Ashland wife who wants the joy back in her marriage.
March 12, 2024
Ask Strider: This week, Strider comforts an Ashland wife who wants the joy back in her marriage.
Strider: Even cats want to Ask Strider. This week, two letters from cats whose normal cat behavior with their humans just isn’t delivering the goods.
Ask Strider: This week, a sympathetic Strider gives advice on how to get out of the doghouse, and how to comfort a delusional pal.
Ask Strider: This week, Strider counsels moderation in friendship. He’d always rather wag than bark.
Ask Strider, the Ashland.news advice columnist, answers all your questions with wisdom learned in his early street dog days and more recently as a dog about town. Got a problem? He’ll wag, not bark.
As of Nov. 3, Ashland Community Food Bank has a new director at the reins. Catie Mahoney will serve in the role with guidance from outgoing director Amey Broeker, who will officially retire on Dec. 31 after serving in the food bank role since 2022.
The Ashland City Council will review a proposal from a potential provider to oversee its extreme weather shelter during its regular business meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 18.
The Ashland Independent Film Festival has added a second screening showcasing Indigenous filmmakers on Sunday, Nov. 23.
Three and a half years into the war with Russia, Ashland violinist and longtime music teacher Faina Podolnaya is still finding ways to help Ukrainian refugees.
Herbert Rothschild: As the number of ads in The New Yorker has shrunk, it seems as if the wealth of its readership has concentrated, just as one might concentrate the flavor of a sauce by reducing it on the stovetop.
Local artist MaryAnn Shank will share the thoughts behind her newest novel “Sor Juana, My Beloved” at Bloomsbury Books Jan. 26. Shank is a finalist of The Isabel Allende Most Inspirational Book of the Year 2025 award, awarded by the International Latino Book Association.
(It’s free)