As It Was: Owners closed landmark Upper Rogue lodge
The owners closed the Rogue River Lodge in November 2015 to convert the main building into their home and to remove the parking lot. Anne and Lee Kimball are the eighth owners of the lodge, a 78-year...
View ArticleGhost stories haunt Oregon Caves Chateau
The chateau at the Oregon Caves National Monument east of Cave Junction is a six-story, rustic building dating to 1934. It spans a canyon with a stream running through its dining room. Like most old...
View ArticleAs It Was: Horse-drawn trolley served Klamath Falls
Before Klamath Falls had paved streets, the city offered a railway franchise to the first of two companies to lay the track for a horse-drawn trolley along Main Street. The Klamath Land and...
View ArticleAs It Was: Hannah Pottery provided pioneer essentials
Handmade pottery, popular today for its decorative value and craftsmanship, is not the household necessity it was in Josiah Hannah's Day.Josiah Hannah brought 20 years experience working in a Missouri...
View ArticleCouncil Corner: A vote against the recall
Residents upset with Ashland Senior Center management decisions are attempting to gather 1,556 signatures from registered voters to recall three Parks and Recreation commissioners. Having background...
View ArticleSleep apnea can lead to dementia diagnosis
“To sleep, perchance to dream” — or maybe to snore or even develop symptoms of dementia? Is this possible? Yes, as I learned recently at a seminar in Medford called the Alzheimer’s and Dementia...
View ArticleAging Happens: Good to know — A guide to 'Living with Dying'
“Living With Dying: A Complete Guide for Caregivers.” If you saw a book by this title, you might think that this is not anything you either need or want to read about. You’d be wrong on both counts,...
View ArticleThe pros and cons of multi-generation living
What would you do in this situation? Here’s the scenario: As an aging adult, you’re living on your own here In Ashland. So far, you’re doing fine, but as you know, there is a good chance that things...
View ArticleAging Happens: New hospice resource coming to area
When we receive the diagnosis from which we will not recover, we are in a completely different phase of life. Hospice services are hopefully the support that most people will reach for at this time of...
View ArticleAging Happens: It can happen here
If you think it can’t happen to you, join the club. Most people, when asked, say they are sure they are not vulnerable to being financially scammed or abused as an elder. We all want this to be true,...
View ArticleCouncil Corner: A vote against the recall
Residents upset with Ashland Senior Center management decisions are attempting to gather 1,556 signatures from registered voters to recall three Parks and Recreation commissioners. Having background...
View ArticleChris Honoré: There but for the grace of ...
How can any Republican with a shred of decency seriously participate in the Kabuki dance recently performed in the Senate, its purpose to dismantle the Affordable Care Act?To a person they know, absent...
View ArticleChris Honoré: ‘Like the world has never seen’
According to a report by the Defense Intelligence Agency, North Korea has successfully miniaturized a nuclear warhead that could be placed on top of an ICBM, a missile, according to a recent test,...
View ArticleChris Honoré: Asserting a false equivalency
They came walking out of a dark Friday night on the University of Virginia campus, a long line of young men (and a few women) carrying tiki torches, chanting, “Jews will not replace us!” and “blood and...
View ArticleChris Honoré: POTUS — Once again, unscripted
Three speeches in three days. The first was delivered to an audience of our troops, aides and cabinet members in Arlington, Virginia, and read verbatim by Trump from a teleprompter in an even tone,...
View ArticleChris Honoré: Harvey as a black swan event
According to Wikipedia, the term black swan derives from a period when it was believed that such birds did not exist. They were, however, later discovered in the wild and were regarded as both a...
View ArticleChris Honoré: Deconstructing Trump’s base
During the summer, Trump sent out a number of cobbled-together tweets, all referring to “his base.” He wrote, “Hard to believe that with 24/7 #Fake News on CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, NYTimes, WAPO the Trump...
View ArticleChris Honoré: POTUS and the presidential pivot
This intense political season (which still continues) has indeed been fertile ground for language, meaning words/metaphors/images that have been created not just by politicians but also by the...
View ArticleChris Honoré: ‘Dreamers’— six months and counting
In thinking about the schism that currently exists in our nation between Republicans and Democrats, I am aware that for many it is not simply a matter of point of view, but one of ideology, meaning a...
View ArticleChris Honoré: The man standing in front of the tent
Every week I search for something that occupies the national stage to write about, other than Donald Trump. But I confess that it’s hard to look away. Since he and Melania rode down that escalator in...
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