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Ashland New Plays Festival will present four playwrights’ new works at its 27th annual festival from Oct. 17–21 at the Unitarian Center, 87 Fourth St., in Ashland. The winners are: • Ian August for “The Excavation of Mary Anning.”…

Ashland voters have the chance to choose majorities of the City Council and Parks & Recreation Commission, as well as a city recorder and a municipal court judge, on Nov. 6. A total of nine positions will be on the ballot, including…

Guy Fieri, the celebrity star of “Diners, Drive-ins and Dives” on the Food Network passed through Ashland Thursday. At 10:30 a.m. he tweeted, “1st stop on the family road trip to Yellowstone – Emigrant lake in Ashland, Oregon. Used to come…

The 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama announced Monday went to “Cost of Living” by Martyna Majok, a play that headlined the Ashland New Plays Festival (ANPF) in 2016. The playwright, a New Yorker, came to Ashland for two dramatic readings of…

Ashland High School officials sent out a campuswide statement condemning a social-media post they said contained hate speech after it was widely shared among students on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The controversial post appeared Monday…

Years in the making my path to Finisterre unfolds step by step Unstructured spiritual paths, meandering as they tend to be, often prove most meaningful for many of us as we flee the strictures of doctrinaire religions in a…

Ashland Fire & Rescue’s Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training culminated Saturday afternoon with a mock disaster simulation involving area elementary, middle and high school students role-playing victims of an earthquake.…

At its year-end company call Friday, Oregon Shakespeare Festival announced that, mainly because of lost revenues from smoky air, it will trim seven positions from the acting company and five from non-acting posts in development, artistic…

Mary Chilton, the owner of property above the Ditch Trail who has been fighting to keep trail walkers from parking on her property, was arrested Friday for assault and harassment and taken to the Jackson County Jail for allegedly slapping a…

Sculptor Jeffrey Bernard is being remembered as a major contributor to Ashland’s art and history over the past four decades, with much fanfare for his restoration of Lithia Park’s Perozzi Fountain and the Abraham Lincoln statue. After a…