The Oak Knoll Men’s Golf Club of Ashland held its annual Thanksgiving “Turkey Shoot” on Saturday, Nov. 23. The group donated more than $440 and 500 pounds of food to the Ashland Food Bank.
Reader Photo: Dad leads a horse carrying his son in this photo taken by Ashland resident Dale Robinette south of Englewood, Colorado, in 1972, at the start of his professional photography career.
Ashland resident Dale Robinette sends this photo to Ashland.news “and Ashland Family — After your breezy beach BBQ … the potato salad, chips and guacamole, the dogs and S-Mores … Remember our Armed Forces and Our Freedoms. Til we meet on down the road.” The photo was taken by Robinette on Redondo Beach, California — with lighting by cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt.
Readers Photos: Bryan Sohl captured these photos of the northern lights from off Scenic Drive in the Hald Strawberry Park neighborhood at 12:30 a.m. Saturday, May 11.
It’s coming back. Another wave of charged solar material will sweep into the Earth’s atmosphere, sparking a secondary aurora borealis peak Sunday, May 12, the Space Weather Prediction Center, part of the National Weather Service, announced Saturday.
Reader Photo: Bill Street took this photo of blossoms in front of and behind a turkey with a colorful head and wattle of its own off Terrace Street in Ashland.
Reader Photo: Diane Toth calls this photo, taken early in March, “Saturday morning Ashland, waiting for the next snowfall.”
Reader Photo: Linda Thomas took this photo of snow play on the hill above North Mountain Park on Saturday morning, March 2.
Reader Photo: Dale Robinette said more than a foot of snow had already come down and more was falling when he took this photo of an old International Harvester truck on Saturday at his house on Old Highway 99 South at 3,506-foot elevation.
Reader Photo: Jessica Bryan and Tom Clunie on Feb. 22 captured this photo of a bald eagle in a tree in their backyard at Nauvoo Mobile Home Park by Bear Creek on the north end of Ashland.
Gov. Tina Kotek called a special legislative session Thursday to come up with $218 million to pay outstanding balances from the 2024 wildfire season. Lawmakers voted 25-2 in the Senate and 42-2 in the House to pay that bill by sending $191.5 million to the state forestry department and $26.6 million to the Office of the State Fire Marshal.
Millions of western monarch butterflies once visited Oregon and other Western states each spring to drink flower nectar, pollinate plants and lay their eggs after wintering in forests in coastal California. But today just a couple hundred thousand make the journey. To help curb their decline, a federal wildlife nonprofit has granted nearly $760,000 to improve the monarch’s habitat.
Relocations: “I don’t think there are any other artists (besides Richard Serra) who worked with the level of ambition, exactness and vision to create something on such a magnificent scale that changes human experience.” — Sarah Roberts, head of painting and sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Obituary: Ruth Bell Alexander, 80, a pioneering women’s health advocate, writer, and community leader, died Dec. 4 in Ashland. In 2005, Ruth Alexander was elected to the Ashland School Board, where she served two terms as a vocal advocate for equitable education and student engagement. She organized the whole town into a one-week television hiatus called “No TV Week” in the early 1990s.
Mt. Ashland Ski Area’s first new chairlift in more than three decades will open this weekend. The Lithia Chair will open at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 14, giving skiers and snowboarders greater access to easy and intermediate slopes, according to a release issued Tuesday from the nonprofit ski area.
Review: This year’s production of “A Christmas Carol,” playing at the CTP and directed by Tommy Statler, is original, imaginative and lighter than last year’s production of the same. The story of the miserly curmudgeon who finds redemption in the meaning of Christmas keeps with the spirit of the season.
(It’s free)