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Pollinator Connection: Ways you can bee engaged
BY KRISTINA LEFEVER...
I love the “Engage Ashland” idea recently put forward by the city. Yes, Ashland (and other places) are so much improved when residents engage and do things. So, this column is a riff on that idea, offering several…
Ashland police shoot at cougar on SOU campus
After responding Sunday night to reports that two cougars were spotted on the Southern Oregon University campus, Ashland police fired a shot at one of the animals, but missed and the cougar escaped, apparently unharmed.
According to a…
News is not ‘the way it is’ anymore, play says
Two women, strangers to each other, are caught in an airport time warp, waiting for their flights to board. The setup sounds like it could be a nightmare and, at first, it is. “Walter Cronkite is Dead,” directed by Jeannine Grizzard, opened…
Herb Rothschild Jr.: PR and the LNG pipeline
I wouldn’t have liked to earn my living in public relations. Not that there’s anything intrinsically wrong with the occupation. Still, I think I would have foundered on moral dilemmas. For example, I wouldn’t have wanted to work on the PR…
Quinby bids adieu
With triple talent in acting, singing and dance, Presila Quinby in 1978 arrived in Ashland, performed with Oregon Shakespeare Festival and started up PJQ, a locally famous quartet with her brother Jim Quinby and lover Paul Jenny — then in…
New plays power new perspectives
Every classic play was a new play at one point in time, says Ashland New Plays Festival’s executive director Kyle Haden.
“Think of how exciting it must have been for that first audience to see ‘Hamlet’ or August Wilson’s ‘Piano Lesson’…
OSF cancels popular Green Show
Hazardous smoke from wildfires has cost the Oregon Shakespeare Festival about $2 million in losses so far and has prompted the festival to cancel its free, outdoor Green Show performances for the rest of the season.
The Green Show,…
Quills & Queues: Le Guin documentary maker coming here for screening
Arwen Curry is a filmmaker on a serious mission. She has long been a researcher and fan of Ursula K. Le Guin, the Portland-based and globally respected fantasy and science fiction novelist (although she preferred to be called a novelist)…
County workers get hefty raises
More than a dozen nonunion Jackson County workers have received raises of more than $10,000 this year.
Another 20 workers got raises between $5,000 and $10,000.
Approximately 76 nonunion workers received raises totaling more than…
Lending a plate to help save the planet
Inspired by the ghastly sight of dumpsters overflowing with plastic dinnerware after weddings, meetings, concerts and parties, two Ashland Master Recyclers have started a “dish library” where, for free, you can pick up full dinner place…