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Remembering Mandy Andersen

Caitlin Nolan: Amanda Emmanuella Andersen — Mandersen, Mandypants, Mandy — 35, died in the early morning of Monday, Aug. 11, following a valiant four-year battle with breast cancer. She was a beloved and ubiquitous fixture of the theater communities of Portland and Ashland.

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Music

A marriage in two keys

“Martin and I are a team. Even though this transition is going to be challenging, I know I can trust my partner to have my back, and he knows I have his. That’s the wonderful thing about having a partner who gets what you do.” — Chelsea Majkut

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Business

New OSF interim executive director: A front row seat behind the curtain of world-class theater

After fulfilling a long-held dream of leading sales and marketing reins at a regional theater by serving in upper sales and marketing management at Oregon Shakespeare Festival for the past three years, Javier “Javi” Dubon’s appointment by OSF’s Board of Directors to interim executive director on June 23 launched him into an expanded role and then some as he became the sixth person in less than seven years to take on responsibility for operations, finance, IT and human resources and more.

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Former Ashlander puts his life on the line to help in Ukraine

Neil Peterson, 35, arrived in Kharkiv on Feb. 21 to work as a humanitarian volunteer. It has long been a strategically essential city targeted by Russia during its more than three-year war of aggression against Ukraine, and it is routinely hammered by Russian missile and drone strikes.

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As state lawmakers ponder federal funding cuts, initiative advances that would end estate tax

A proposed ballot initiative to eliminate Oregon’s estate tax is moving forward, even as the state braces for a massive loss in federal funding due to cuts related to Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. The estate tax generated $423 million for Oregon in 2024-25, a critical revenue stream as the state faces an estimated $15.1 billion in federal cuts, primarily from two programs that benefit low-income Oregonians: Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

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