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By Jessica Bryan “Bring something special with you next week,” she said. “We are going to do an exercise in ‘Sacred Psychometry.’” The teacher of our mediumship class was referring to the metaphysical practice of holding an inanimate…

Miss America attended the Jackson County Fair in 1958. The Kiwanian-sponsored fair primarily featured a 4-H and FFA livestock show and staged events at the adjoining Medford Armory. Miss America (Marilyn Van Derbur) walked through the…

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…

TALENT — A makerspace that will encourage local entrepreneurs and supply them with tools, equipment and space is close to opening its first component. The space will eventually allow budding inventors to create prototypes, take…

I got a call three weeks ago telling me that my father was in the hospital with pneumonia. He is 92 years old, so a bout of pneumonia is no small matter. I changed my vacation plans, got on a plane and flew to Southern California. Dad…

Actor-director Barret O’Brien is taking a year off the Oregon Shakespeare Festival to take action against climate change — “the biggest challenge ever to face humanity” — and the result is his play “Water Made to Rise,” an ironic and pithy…

Smoke may seem to be all that’s on everyone’s minds, but for fasters in the #Hungry4Justice hunger strike currently in Ashland it reinforces the message of their fight. Faster Dot Fisher-Smith, an Ashland resident with a long history of…

Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s “Snow in Midsummer” is a masterpiece. That’s not surprising. Cowhig, an internationally based playwright whose work has been staged on the West End, the Goodman Theatre, and at the Royal Shakespeare Company, among…

Like any responsible environmentalist I have been throwing my trash into separate bins for decades, assuming that the city-contracted waste hauler was sending mixed garbage to a local landfill, and plastics, glass, and paper to American…

BY DANNY PENZA... The relationship between Ashland and Guanajuato, Mexico, goes well beyond the current ages of every Ashland Little League player, a pact between sister cities that is closing in on its 50th birthday. This week, the two…