Poetry Corner: Both of today’s poems speak to the importance of community and identity. Louise M. Paré’s poem tells how the connection to her ancestral homeland of Ukraine continues to shape her persona. Seth Kaplan’s recent move from the Applegate to Talent describes how he has easily become attached to his new place and discovered the “us” in his community.
Join us for a FREE OSF Green Show Performance featuring Stanza to Stage on Saturday, July 20th at 6:45pm on the OSF Green Show Stage “On the Bricks” at 15
Poetry Corner: Two poets share their memories, one about a radio personality and the other a nostalgic time growing up in the Rogue Valley. Both poems exemplify a love of our richly poetic home and the people and things that make it that way.
Poetry Corner: Two poems from Talent poets, describing more beauties of the Rogue Valley in free verse and haibun.
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)
