This year marks the 10th annual Thanksgiving Community Peace Meal and the First Presbyterian Church of Ashland has offered to share their space with the community. SOJWJ is lining up volunteers and cooks, as well as those who can give financial support. They are expecting to feed more than 300 people.
Fifty-seven horses and two donkeys currently are living out their lives in peace and comfort at Equamore Foundation’s sanctuary in an idyllic setting on Highway 66 just south of Ashland.
A small group of volunteers who call themselves RepairSO offers free sewing repairs at Bellview Grange from 9:30 a.m. to noon the fourth Monday of every month. They bring their own sewing machines in for the work, including a 1936 Singer.
Riding Beyond is taking signups for volunteer training and four-week sessions. The Ashland nonprofit assists individuals who have experienced trauma through breast cancer treatment and, since 2021, have extended services to those who have experienced trauma related to COVID-19 and wildfires.
Two Ashland groups that need volunteers to help feed the unhoused will host a training from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, Aug. 11 at the Ashland Public Library.
Selene Aitken: I reflect on the folks I’ve served that morning, students, families, old folk and young, friendly, sour, elegant or ragged. All need food. I am grateful to be part of the team providing sustenance and support.
A kitchen serving daily meals to those in need was unveiled to a small group of supporters Thursday evening at Opportunities for Housing, Resources and Assistance.
The Native American Student Union (NASU) at Southern Oregon University (SOU) will be hosting their 32nd annual powwow April 12 and 13. The intertribal powwow will offer food, music, dancing, and opportunities for shopping from Native owned businesses.
Around a dozen volunteers worked Sunday to shape a series of mounds of earth at the Ashland Dirt Jumps park for what will become a new pump track skills area on a strip of land just west of the Bear Creek Greenway’s southern terminus near the Ashland Dog Park, just south of the Ashland Wastewater Treatment Plant and behind houses along Almeda Drive.
Ongoing research aimed at increasing the public’s understanding, appreciation, preservation and protection of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument is set for this week at SOU. The research symposium will run from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 20, at the Southern Oregon University Science Auditorium and online via Zoom.
At just 21 years old, Ashland native Brooklyn Williams is stepping into her biggest role yet — the lead in Oregon Cabaret Theatre’s adaptation of “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King,” playing through Dec. 31.
A women’s singing group with member from the 27 Ukrainian families now taking refuge in Ashland will perform at a benefit concert Dec. 14.
The Trump administration will require that homeless service providers force people to receive behavioral health treatment in order to access long-term, federally supported housing, a move that could mean organizations across Oregon would have to choose between receiving federal dollars or state dollars — but not both.
A local artist who arrived in Ashland three years ago is having his first solo art show at the White Rabbit gallery in downtown Ashland. Micah Blacklight has been waiting for the chance to show the personal perspective of an injustice he has witnessed over decades.
This year marks the 10th annual Thanksgiving Community Peace Meal and the First Presbyterian Church of Ashland has offered to share their space with the community. SOJWJ is lining up volunteers and cooks, as well as those who can give financial support. They are expecting to feed more than 300 people.
Ashland has been approved for a federal loan of up to $73 million to replace its 76-year-old water treatment plant, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday. The low-interest financing will allow the city to draw funds as construction progresses.
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