Poetry Corner
Poetry Corner: Our Japanese Garden
Poetry Corner: In Ashland’s Lithia Park is the Japanese Garden, a place to seek serenity.
November 25, 2025
Poetry Corner: In Ashland’s Lithia Park is the Japanese Garden, a place to seek serenity.
Poetry Corner: Seasons change and days grow shorter, which means time for shorter poems like haiku and senryu.
Poetry Corner: Today’s Poetry Corner is a celebration of life’s journey, the stories we tell, and the freedom aging brings.
Poetry Corner: A walk through Ashland’s North Mountain Park is filled with stories of the trees and animals who make the park a special place.
Poetry Corner: The New Year comes in many forms, dependent on one’s cultural traditions. This September’s New Year offers times for reflection and renewal.
Southern Oregon offers many hiking trails, many of which tell a history of the region, like the Gin Lin Trail.
Southern Oregon celebrates Mexican culture with dance and music.
Poetry Corner: Poetry and satire go hand-in-hand when confronting political bombast and those who enable such outrageous behavior.
Poetry Corner: In response to a “loud” motorcycle poem, here’s a quieter offering of a tamer adventure on an environmentally electric motorbike.
The Ashland City Council will convene on Monday, Dec. 1, for its retreat and on Tuesday, Dec. 2, for its regular business meeting. Monday’s retreat focuses on a deep dive into city finances.
A six-acre, 1.4 megawatt (MW) solar energy development proposal just outside the north end of Ashland on the east side of Highway 99 is set for public hearing at the county on Monday, Dec. 1. The proposed project on one parcel of a much larger area owned by Medella Bison Ranch, was initially denied approval by county planning staff based primarily on impacts to agricultural lands.
Eighty volunteers prepared and distributed approximately 300 meals on Thursday for the 10th annual Thanksgiving Community Peace Meal organized by Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice. This year’s gathering was the largest yet, with meal deliveries doubling compared to last year.
State employees packed boxes of food to be distributed throughout the state to help low-income Oregonians. But it’s not just to give out immediate food aid, it’s an exercise the Office of Resilience and Emergency Management will use to prepare agencies to help respond to major emergencies.
Oregon is co-leading a group of Democratic attorneys general in suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture and its leader Brooke Rollins over abrupt cuts to food assistance for refugees and asylum seekers. The cuts could affect up to 3,000 Oregonians who rely on SNAP.
Herbert Rothschild: We aren’t appreciably safer now than we were during the Cuban Missile Crisis. What else can we conclude but that nuclear policy simply mustn’t be left in the hands of the warmakers? Either we give peace a chance or we continue to chance self-immolation.
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