Poetry Corner: Poetry can stimulate and soothe at the same time, and in these hot summer days, a poet remembering an Ashland winter day can do both. Read, and dream about snow before going out into the summer sun.
Poetry Corner: It’s haiku and beyond, proving once again, if proof were needed, that Ashland, Oregon, is the nursery of poets. Elaine Maveety and Jim Flint find beauty in subjects from the natural world to Burma Shave, and each has its own particular poetic charm.
“Harriman’s Ghost” tells side-by-side stories of the life of the fictional Ben Harriman, a revered film and television star, and Janet Cooper, ghost writer of Harriman’s official biography. In “Harriman’s Ghost,” she is goaded into writing another book that unveils the truth about the actor’s troubled life.
Fifteen middle-school girls and boys were honored and awarded cash prizes May 4 as winners in the Friends of the Ashland Library (FOAL) essay contest. An enthusiastic gathering of families, teachers, friends and community members crowded the Ashland Public Library Gresham Room to cheer them on.
A processional of about 170 first grade Ashland students and their teachers walked through a colorful balloon arch leading up the steps of the Mountain Avenue Theatre on Wednesday, applauded by Ashland Rotarians gathered to lavish the royal treatment on 6- and 7-year-olds celebrating learning to read, a major milestone in first grade.
First-graders in Ashland will be treated to a reading extravaganza on Wednesday at Ashland High School. The Rotary Club of Ashland and Rotary Club of Ashland Lithia Springs will host the ninth annual Ashland Reads “celebration of literacy” for about 170 first-grade students in the Ashland School District from about 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Ashland High School.
In honor of National Library Week, Friends of the Ashland Public Library were treated on Friday to a tour of Southern Oregon University’s Hannon Library by SOU University Librarian Dr. Carrie Forbes.
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.
Residents from across Southern Oregon made the trip to Oak Knoll Golf Course in Ashland on Saturday, Jan. 18, for a “benefit concert for vulnerable communities” co-sponsored by Women’s March Southern Oregon and ORD2 Indivisible.
A group of about 40, mostly women, gathered in near-freezing weather Saturday morning on the East Main Street side of Ashland Plaza to show their support for women’s rights, from reproductive autonomy to equality across the board.
Ashland’s 37th annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration is set for noon to 1:30 p.m. Monday at the Historic Ashland Armory in downtown Ashland. The event is free and open to the public.
At its first meeting of the new year Tuesday, the Ashland City Council is expected to sew up loose threads from last year with votes to approve the 2200 Ashland St. Master Plan, formally create an Ashland Parks & Recreation Department and the first reading of an ordinance to mitigate carbon pollution for new residential structures, according to meeting materials.
Ask Strider: Our advice columnist turns to the problems of making friends and keeping them. As usual, he counsels restraint in troubled friendships, and asks the Old Cedar Tree what to do about making friends in the first place. The Old Cedar Tree has interesting thoughts on the subject.
A vandalism incident that left damage from large tire marks in Railroad and Lithia parks will cost thousands to repair and is part of a larger trend of vandalism in the city’s parks, according to Ashland Parks Superintendent Kevin Caldwell.
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