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.
It may still be summer but the Mt. Ashland Ski Area is moving forward with an ambitious fundraising campaign to provide new and improved conditions for skiers and snowboarders this winter. In gearing up for the 2024-25 season, ski area managers have launched efforts to raise $500,000 to provide new and expanded terrain and upgrade the mountain’s night lighting.
Those driving through downtown Ashland Thursday afternoon may have encountered a traffic disruption at the corner of East Main and North Pioneer streets when first responders closed off some traffic lanes while they investigated what was initially reported as a structure fire.
The recently completed $750,000 Bear Creek River Mile 19 project wasn’t intended to have a strictly surface level effect, but to create a nuanced restoration of eight acres of wildland urban interface within the Almeda Fire scar.
The Ashland Independent Film Festival kicks off its four-day run Thursday, Oct. 3, with the centerpiece film for the festival, ‘Including Us,’ set for its world premiere Saturday. The film, made by local director Brandon Givens, is about the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s production of “Hairspray: A Broadway Musical” in 2019. The story focuses on four actors with disabilities who starred in the musical, along with the rest of the cast.
Electric Department Head Tom McBartlett presented a master plan to keep the city of Ashland’s electric department safe, reliable and capable of meeting future demand at the Ashland City Council study session Monday. The plan projected that, with a few changes, the city’s electric system would be capable of handling the projected population growth and with a few potential upgrades and alterations — such as an expansion of the Mountain Avenue substation and a potential upgrade to its transformer.
After narrowly making it back to Southern Oregon on one of the last flights out of Asheville, North Carolina, before remnants of Hurricane Helene touched down last Thursday, Ashland resident Ashley Brown is hearing devastating news directly from friends in the area.
Rough patches of pavement along about a mile of North and East Main streets and Lithia Way were ground up and taken away, replaced by freshly laid inlays of asphalt Monday and Tuesday during a joint project of the Oregon Department of Transportation and the city of Ashland.
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