While her older brothers were serving with the U.S. Army in the Pacific, 10-year-old Mitsuko (Mitzi) Asai and most of the rest of her family were incarcerated in a prison camp a thousand miles away from their home in Hood River, Oregon. The crime? They were Japanese Americans.
Two Ashland women featured in a new book, “Tough Broad: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking — How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age,” will join the book’s author for a discussion about the book at 6 p.m. Monday, March 18, at the Ashland Public Library.
Winegrower John Pratt will speak about the Rogue Valley as a treasured location for top-shelf location for quality grapes and wine at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 14, at Southern Oregon University’s Hannon Library, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland.
The power and magic of the spoken word came alive as a cross section of Ashland’s Black community took to the stage during the Griot Night: Intergenerational Storytelling evening at the SOU Digital Media Center Wednesday, Feb. 21, sponsored by the Black Student Union at Southern Oregon University.
Ashland Creatives: It was 10 years after her father’s death, when she was 33 years old, that Barbara Hilyer first learned the family secret that she had African American heritage. She wrote a book about it, which she’ll discuss Monday, March 4, at Bloomsbury Books in Ashland.
Erin Zelinka: “Put your art out there, whether it’s writing or visual arts or music. If you can have the bravery to be authentically you, your people will then find you and support you.”
Stanley R. Luther: “Flying has been my lifelong passion — a love affair with the skies. It doesn’t matter what kind of airplane: little, big or anything in between.”
The Friends of the Hannon Library will host the 29th William Stafford Poetry Celebration from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 11, at Southern Oregon University’s Hannon Library, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland, in the Meese Room.
Lisa Manyon’s ‘Spiritual Sugar’ book wins American Writing Award Author Lisa Manyon of Ashland, Oregon, has achieved another milestone with her international bestselling book, “Spiritual Sugar: The Divine Ingredients to
Ashland Creatives: Through writing, art and organizing, Manya Yana Campos continues to work towards recognizing and respecting the work and contributions of Latinos and Indigenous peoples living here in Ashland and beyond and will continue to do so.
Those driving through downtown Ashland Thursday afternoon may have encountered a traffic disruption at the corner of East Main and North Pioneer streets when first responders closed off some traffic lanes while they investigated what was initially reported as a structure fire.
The recently completed $750,000 Bear Creek River Mile 19 project wasn’t intended to have a strictly surface level effect, but to create a nuanced restoration of eight acres of wildland urban interface within the Almeda Fire scar.
The Ashland Independent Film Festival kicks off its four-day run Thursday, Oct. 3, with the centerpiece film for the festival, ‘Including Us,’ set for its world premiere Saturday. The film, made by local director Brandon Givens, is about the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s production of “Hairspray: A Broadway Musical” in 2019. The story focuses on four actors with disabilities who starred in the musical, along with the rest of the cast.
Electric Department Head Tom McBartlett presented a master plan to keep the city of Ashland’s electric department safe, reliable and capable of meeting future demand at the Ashland City Council study session Monday. The plan projected that, with a few changes, the city’s electric system would be capable of handling the projected population growth and with a few potential upgrades and alterations — such as an expansion of the Mountain Avenue substation and a potential upgrade to its transformer.
After narrowly making it back to Southern Oregon on one of the last flights out of Asheville, North Carolina, before remnants of Hurricane Helene touched down last Thursday, Ashland resident Ashley Brown is hearing devastating news directly from friends in the area.
Rough patches of pavement along about a mile of North and East Main streets and Lithia Way were ground up and taken away, replaced by freshly laid inlays of asphalt Monday and Tuesday during a joint project of the Oregon Department of Transportation and the city of Ashland.
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