Ask Strider: In this column, Woody the Puppy answers a fellow student, and discovers pronouns for the first time. Strider gives advice on how to pick a great intern. And he and Woody love where they live, even when there’s smoke — “live” being the key word here.
Ask Strider: This week, the Dog about Town gets some love from a cat, a request for a cat, and a question from some cats. He cautiously lets new intern, Woody the
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The sun will come up again tomorrow, they say, a reminder that even in the face of hardship, life and hope persevere. And this weekend, sunflowers returned to line the streets of Phoenix and Talent, just as they did the day the day after the Almeda Fire four years ago, helping rally the spirits of the community.
Southern Oregon University budgeted for a 1-3% reduction in student credit hours this fall, but is now facing the need to restructure its budget by $2.7 million as the university lowers enrollment projections due to a significantly delayed rollout of federal aid applications anticipated to prompt a 6% reduction in student credit hours.
A wind-driven grass fire ignited near Almeda Drive on Sept. 8, 2020, ravaged its way northwest through the wildland urban interface, destroying thousands of structures through Talent and Phoenix. The direction of the wind that day is often credited with preserving Ashland from the fire. But there was also a quick intervention from the south, when firefighters with the Greensprings Rural Fire District extinguished a vehicle fire intentionally set on fire at Emigrant Lake.
The unveiling of the final version of a major mural project in downtown Ashland was a big night for the local art scene. More than one hundred people crowded into the warehouse-sized studio of muralist John Pugh on Helman Street on Friday night to see Pugh’s vision for a mural that will adorn the Ashland Elks Lodge at 255 E. Main Street.
Obituary: Amanda Louise (Butler) Pyle, 80, a longtime Rogue Valley resident and elementary school teacher, passed away Sept. 3 at Celia’s Hospice House in Medford. Teaching was not a “job” for Amanda — it was a passion. She is especially remembered for involving students in creative projects and also for giving every one of them a hug as they left her classroom at the end of each school day.
Local law enforcement agencies say they’d love nothing more than a break in the investigation into the cause of the devastating Almeda Fire of Sept. 8, 2020. Sadly, four years since the fire destroyed more than 2,500 homes and burned 3,200 acres between Ashland and Phoenix, investigators don’t know much more than they did immediately after the fire.
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