The online Wild & Scenic Film Festival brings together community to celebrate KS Wild’s work to protect the Klamath-Siskiyou wildlands and restore clean water in the Rogue Basin.
Veteran journalist Bert Etling will speak about “Sense of Place: Community journalism’s role in mediating community identity,” Thursday, March 9, as part of the Friends of Hannon Library Speaker Series for the 2022-23 academic year.
Longtime activist, teacher and author George Lakey will give two talks during his visit to Ashland on Tuesday, March 7. Lakey will share stories and effective strategies included in his new book, “Dancing with History: A Life for Peace and Justice.”
A concert featuring more than 1,000 years of musical works by female composers is coming to Southern Oregon University Sunday, March 12.
The Kiwanis Club of Ashland — part of Kiwanis International’s half-million members around the world — was founded in 1947. The Key Club will offer a car wash at Ashland’s Les Schwab from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, March 12, with proceeds going to the Thirst Project, which supports digging wells in Africa.
Southern Oregon University students join more than 30 other teams taking the Southern Oregon Polar Plunge on Saturday in Medford to benefit the Special Olympics. Registration for the event opens at 9 a.m. and the plunge starts at 11 a.m. at the Rogue Valley Country Club regardless of rain, sleet, snow or sun.
ChatGPT and similar artificial intelligence systems can write poems, term papers and quick, coherent responses to countless questions in ways that seem authentically, or deceptively, human. Tony Davis, who has worked two decades as computational linguist, will lead a discussion of those concerns, titled “Who Wrote That?” Sunday, Feb. 19, at ScienceWorks in Ashland.
Oregon Center for the Arts at Southern Oregon University has launched an ambitious season of plays and concerts for the winter and spring terms in celebration of the university’s 150th anniversary.
Rogue Valley animal advocacy nonprofit Southern Oregon Animal Advocates has named Adrienne Hill as its “Landlord of the Year.”
How can chemistry be utilized to understand human impacts on the environment? That question will be answered during a Friday science seminar hosted by Southern Oregon University assistant professor Chris Babayco, Ph.D., organizers have announced.
The Ashland Independent Film Festival announced Monday the nonprofit’s six on-screen film lineup as a documentary showcase coming April 14-20 to the Varsity Theatre. Each Varsity feature will be paired with a short documentary directed by a local filmmaker.
Oregon drivers who for decades have been banned from touching gas pumps could soon have the right to fuel their own cars, under a bill the state House overwhelmingly approved Monday.
After announcing last week that the ski-snowboarding area broken its all-time season attendance record, Mt. Ashland Ski Area managers announced Sunday that its season has been extended to April 23, adding two weekends on to a schedule that typically would have ended on April 9.
During a visit to Central Point Sunday, Deb Haaland, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, announced $21 million was on its way to Oregon to help reduce the risk of wildfires. Joining her were U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, and Mike Shaw, chief of fire protection at ODF.
A procession celebrating spring wound its way from the ice rink on Winburn Way to the Ashland Plaza on Saturday afternoon, drawing an estimated 150 participants with a like number of spectators.
Reader photos: Carlyle Stout of Ashland took these photos in Lithia Park after the last storm on March 1.
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