Catty Corner: Kitty litter and boxes remain a hot topic among humans who are owned by felines. In today’s column, we tackle a question about whether it’s OK to flush cat poop and/or litter down our human toilets.
A crowdfunding effort to fund a spring play at Ashland Middle School has raised more than $1,000 — 20% of its $5,000 goal — to ensure that the show will go on, but there is still $4,000 to raise by the end of the week if fundraisers are to meet their goal. The play’s GoFundMe page had collected $1,050 as of mid-day Wednesday, March 19.
“Spotlight on Kenny Loggins With Jim Messina,” now playing at the Camelot Theatre in Talent, is an invigorating evening of their celebrated, extraordinarily fine pop-folk tunes. More often than not those tunes are energetically recreated in the spirit of the ’70s and sometimes off the charts.
A packed open house on Saturday at Jackson County Fire District 5 Station 4 outside of Ashland offered a detailed financial update on the embattled district and a chance to discuss everything from staffing struggles to an investigation that remains under review by the Oregon Department of Justice.
Southern Oregon Repertory Singers’ spring concert, dubbed “Charm Me Asleep,” is a “hugely varied program of lyrical, romantic, life-enhancing choral music,” says music director Paul French. “The program title is taken from Robert Herrick’s lyrical ode on the transformative power of music to bring healing and restoration in times of physical and emotional distress.
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.
As the deadline nears to apply for Ashland School Board this Thursday, three more individuals have filed for board posts in the upcoming election on May 20, including Ashland parent and former Hollywood actor Alex Sol, who sued the school district and Oregon Department of Education last year to make Ashland Schools structurally safer in the event of an active shooter scenario, as previously reported by Ashland.news.
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