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Reader photo: Shower head
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.
June 8, 2023
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.
Reader photos: Kathy H. Cooper of Ashland caught a pair of images of a double rainbow shortly before the sun went down Tuesday.
Reader photo: Regina Ayars of Ashland caught this rainbow connecting earth to sky just before sunset Tuesday, on the tail end of a late-in-the-day lightning-and-thunder, sight-and-sound show playing out over the south end of the Rogue Valley.
Reader photo — and haiku: Barry Vitcov offers this combination of words and image.
Reader photo: A recent walk in Lithia Park inspired Pepper Trail to put together this haiku.
Reader photo: Rain, rain go away, so we can play pickleball another day. Douglas R. Smith captured this photo of the courts in Lithia Park between February storms.
This year’s Ashland Mystery Festival is scheduled to run Oct. 16 through 19, and will be headquartered at the Historic Ashland Armory.
The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office is warning people about a phishing scam involving fake emails that appear to come from the official Jackson Alerts system.
Throughout October, 12 female professionals from across the country and Australia — organized by Ashland-based nonprofit Keeping All Women Safe (KAWS) — will offer “valuable information” to help women and men cultivate safer, healthier and more empowering lives and relationships.
The Oregon Senate on Monday passed the long-awaited transportation bill to update the state’s funding sources for road maintenance and operations. The bill would raise taxes and fees, including a gas tax increase from $0.40 to $0.46, effective Jan. 1, 2026.
Once a vibrant hub for local produce and community gathering, the Ashland Growers Market is now, some say, struggling with shrinking sales and dwindling attendance. Longtime vendors report drops of up to two-thirds in revenue, while people voice frustrations over pricing, location and atmosphere.
A former civil rights attorney said that the Trump administration’s lawsuit demanding that Oregon turn over voter information to investigate unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud is unprecedented.
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