Daniel Collay, who had been serving as a member of the Friends of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, has been hired as the group’s new executive director. He previously served as the operations manager of the Willow-Witt Ranch, located near Grizzly Peak.
For its August meeting, Southern Oregon Climate Action Now, a local nonprofit concerned about the climate crisis, swapped out its typical meeting space at the Medford Public Library for The Farm at Southern Oregon University Tuesday evening.
The Jackson County Fuel Committee will host a Folk Music Festival on Saturday, Aug. 31, featuring musicians Jen Ambrose, Ríméad, and Victoria Johnson and Friends at Paschal Winery and Vineyard to celebrate JCFC’s 46th anniversary. The event costs $25 to attend and will offer a no-host bar and bites from local restaurants.
The next free four-week sessions offered by Riding Beyond to provide support to breast cancer survivors and those impacted by the Alameda Fire and COVID-19 through “powerful interactions with (their) specially trained horses” begins Sept. 3 or 4 with four weekly three-hour sessions every Tuesday or Wednesday at Little Creek Ranch on Siskiyou Boulevard in Ashland.
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.
Dozens marked the 79th anniversary of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with a solemn gathering in Lithia Park. A survivor recounted her memories of Aug. 6, 1945, a musician played an original composition, and speakers reflected on the implications of the events decades past on what we were then and could be in years to come.
The annual Hiroshima & Nagasaki Vigil of Remembrance & Recommitment will be held at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6, at the entrance of Lithia Park or, if the air quality index is above 100, at Peace House. At 8:15 a.m., a gong will sound, followed by a minute of silence, signifying the time the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. Following the silence, the memorial flame will be lit.
Every July for the past six years, artist Sarah F. Burns has painted the same bend at Latgawa Creek in Vesper Meadows. Her sixth rendition will be unveiled Friday for The Art of Science exhibit at ScienceWorks Hands-On Museum.
Ashland photographer Christopher Briscoe plans to travel throughout Ukraine, personally distributing funds donated via GoFundMe to those on the ground who need it most. “Like a farmer that needs to repair his plow, or the seeds a farmer needs to plant. And I’m going to hand him the $100 bill and I’m going to ask them to look into the (iPhone) camera and I’m going to do a 60-second video of them thanking Ashland, Oregon, or whoever gave the $100.”
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.
Major Ashland nonprofit services provider has transition plan to replace Cass Sinclair, who is moving on to an as-yet-undisclosed job in the region By Morgan Rothborne, Ashland.news Cass Sinclair will
Pacific Power has organized a meeting in Talent to discuss power outages that have plagued the city this summer. The meeting is 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 11, in the Talent library, 101 Home St. It will include an opportunity to hear from Pacific Power President Ryan Flynn, who will discuss the outages and also explain what is being done to improve the power grid system.
Catty Corner: All of us in the Rogue Valley know all too well that we need to be prepared for fire season — and we also need to make sure our pets are packed and ready to go. Here are a few tips for putting together your feline go bag.
Poetry Corner: The Almeda Fire was a community disaster, that brought the community more closely together. Two poets remember it in its anniversary month.
Nestled within a museum-like setting, the artfully chaotic recording studio is a place where cutting-edge digital meets the world’s largest collection of vintage and modern microphones, blending old-school analog charm with the latest in high tech.
Ashland Parks & Recreation Commissioners will review the revised draft of a “new cooperative framework” developed in informal meetings between members of APRC and Ashland City Council. The new framework intends to lubricate the machine of Ashland city government’s two elected bodies and has already been discussed and edited in a joint meeting of Ashland City Council and APRC commissioners Aug. 14.
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