Reader Photo: The internationally recognized chamber music ensemble the American Brass Quintet (ABQ), visited Ashland last week, giving a master class at the South Medford High School on Friday afternoon, and performing holiday music for all Ashland from The Brickroom’s outdoor balcony on Friday night.
Reader Photo: Dale Robinette took this photo of a Fed Ex semi truck and trailer that tipped over on Interstate 5 on Oct. 12 near Exit 6.
Dale Robinette: The delicious scent of savory soup drew me into Wesley Hall. Celebrity servers like Tim Bond and Tyler Hokama of Oregon Shakespeare Festival were ladling out African peanut soup and clam chowder.
Reader photo: Kathy H. Cooper captured this image of brightly illuminated cascades of clouds in the sky over Ashland on Thursday, Aug. 3.
Reader photos: Tim Muser took these sunset storm photos from his upstairs deck in the 100 block of North Main Street, Ashland, on Wednesday, June 7.
Reader photo: Kate Boutwell took this photo around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday looking northwest from Ashland toward Medford, where a thundershower was dumping rain.
Reader photos: Russ Page shot iPhone videos of the lightning on the other side of the valley below Grizzly Peak on Tuesday evening from his house on Wimer Street toward the north end of town. These images of the lightning bolts are screen-captures from the videos.
Reader photo: Rick Keck took this photo of a fiery sunset following a flashing lightning storm from his back porch on Bush Street in Ashland.
Reader photos: Julie Raefield and Rob Bremer captured these photos between 8:36 and 8:47 p.m. Tuesday as a series of lightning storms passed through the Ashland area.
Reader photo: Kate Boutwell captured this shot of a colorful sunset over Ashland with stadium lights in the foreground on Monday, June 5.
Dozens of area residents ushered in a spirited first night of Hanukkah on Thursday, gathering on the Ashland Plaza late Thursday afternoon to light the first flames on the menorah.
Charles “Al” Huth: We can expand our potential to build true knowledge by altering what we spend time focusing on in our daily lives. In short, search for the Truth.
Herbert Rothschild: Apparently, Kissinger insisted on recording practically every word he said. His aides later commented that he needed to keep track of which lie he told to whom.
On a 4-2 vote, the Ashland City Council on Tuesday approved the first of two required readings of an ordinance to control time, place and manner of camping in Ashland. The ordinance will control occupation of public spaces and enforce behavior, rather than status, and does not seek to punish those who are homeless, the acting city attorney told the council.
Andrew Gast, general manager of the Mt. Ashland Ski Area, had hoped that this Saturday would be opening day for skiing this season, but he admitted defeat on Thursday, despite the latest snowstorm. Things are now day to day, while he, a couple hundred employees and untold numbers of skiers wait for more snow.
Oregonians who packed a legislative hearing on the state’s addiction crisis and flooded the Legislature with passionate testimony this week have vastly different viewpoints, but on one thing they agree: The status quo is not working. Some want to repeal Measure 110, the state’s voter-approved drug decriminalization law. Others say it needs to be tweaked.
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