Ask Strider: Our columnist answers a sad question about the toughest time in a dog guardian’s life, when their dog has come to the end of their life. Strider sympathizes fully, and tries to explain what a dog needs when that time to move on arrives.
Rogue Valley Street Dogs 3rd Annual Fundraising Dinner Event. June 8th, 2024 from 5:30-8:30 at Dos Mariposas Vineyard & Lavendar Farm at 3976 Bellinger Lane in Medford. Register at www.roguevalleystreetdogs.org.
Ask Strider: This week, a friend of the writer’s needs advice: how to handle a dog who tears up the house when left alone? Strider has a lot of experience with dog anxiety, and he has a lot to say, drawn from his own history.
Tom Dimitre: Make it a requirement that any city official who can propose fee increases be required to live in the city.
John Marciano and Leslie Dwyer: Benjamin Netanyahu, the genocidal war criminal, just met with President Donald Trump, urging Trump to join a war against Iran. This would be an unfounded, unjust war that is clearly against international law and the U.S. Constitution.
A winter storm warning will be in effect from 10 p.m. Monday, Feb. 16, to 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 19, for mid- to higher elevation parts of Jackson County according to a news release from the National Weather Service issued Sunday morning, Sunday, Feb. 15. A winter weather advisory will be in effect over the same time period for areas up to 2,000-foot elevation.
Ashland Planning Commission Chair Lisa Verner cast the deciding vote to partially approve, partially deny a housing project at 431 N. Main St., at the prominent corner of N. Main and Nursery Streets in the city’s nationally registered Skidmore Academy Historic District in a dramatic ending to the meeting of Tuesday, Feb. 10.
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) officials are accepting applications for the agency’s annual summer artist-in-residence programs: one at the historic Rogue River Ranch National Historic Site and another at the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. The artists will have the opportunity to capture these lands during a milestone year.
Three civil rights veterans who were on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement will share their experiences during the “Choosing Courage” panel discussion from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 18, at the Southern Oregon University Recital Hall.
(It’s free)
