Poetry Corner: It’s that time of the year for organizing end-of-year tasks and thinking about turning the calendar page to a new year. If you have a poem for any holiday that celebrates with light, even if not at this time of the year — Chanukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Diwali, Lantern Festival, Lunar New Year, New Year’s, or any other festivity where light plays a significant role — please, consider submitting to the Poetry Corner.
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.
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.
Want to be a uniter, not a divider? To build relationships, strengthen collaboration skills and explore different views, all while working together to address issues related to housing and homelessness? Urban Rural Action, a national nonprofit, non-partisan organization that strives to bring Americans together across divides to tackle the nation’s most urgent challenges, is looking for 28 volunteer participants from four Southern Oregon Counties — Jackson, Douglas, Josephine and Klamath — to take part in a seven-month project to make a meaningful impact on housing and homelessness in Southern Oregon, all while building relationships and engagement in the community.
Current and former federal staffers joined Oregon Democrats in a town hall in Portland on Monday, saying President Donald Trump’s efforts to shrink the federal government presents risks to Oregon life, potentially harming how the state responds to wildfires, preserves its natural resources and cares for veterans.
An overflow audience at the Ashland High School gymnasium Sunday afternoon erupted into thunderous applause as U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) blasted the “tyrannical” actions of the Trump administration. At the boisterous town hall, with at least 1,000 in attendance, Merkley laid out a stark, apocalyptic critique of President Donald Trump.
New theories and dramatic testimonies about UFOs — now more often referred to as “UAPs,” for unidentified anomalous phenomena — drew a crowd of hundreds that filled the Rogue River Room at Southern Oregon University’s Stevenson Union Thursday night. Guests at the event, organized by New Paradigm Institute, ranged from political activists to personal growth enthusiasts and those open to psychic experiences involving any other-world exposure.
Ashland author Reg Spittle will give a talk, “All Paths Lead From Santiago,” at the Phoenix Library, 510 W. 1st St., at 6:30 p.m. April 8. He will describe his experience as a reluctant pilgrim on Spain’s Camino de Santiago trail and how it led to a 30-day High Sierra adventure on California’s John Muir Trail.
(It’s free)
