Sarah Red-Lairde of Bee Girl and Gregg Marchese, Permaculturist with Wild Things from the Ford Foundation Institute Leadership Program’s Ashland Cohort 2 Bee Tree Project-  A collaboration of two proposed class project ideas, a Food Forest and Bee Pollinating Garden. Molly Kreuzman of Coyote Trails’ Jefferson Nature Center. How did you get involved with the [...]

Would you like to see change happen around food and farming issues in your community? If you would like to work towards strengthening our food system then come to the Ashland FEAST on Saturday, May 12th. The FEAST will be from 1:00pm to 6:00pm at Bellview Grange located at 1050 Tolman Creek Road Ashland, OR [...]

Today we’re talking with Matt Terreri, a licensed chiropractor and sports physician at Southern Oregon Sports and Spine. Matt applies twelve years of experience blending chiropractic with the most up to date sports knowledge and techniques. Dr. Terreri how did you get into your field of work? When I was a child my mother used to [...]

Ashland has a reputation for attracting fascinating and accomplished people whose stories would span the globe and project listeners into some of the most fascinating places and situations of our time. Giants in many fields literally walk among us in this community.

Sequoia Pettengell, owner of Sequoia Photography, specializes in weddings and surrealistic portraits. She focuses on subjects in a setting that illuminates their character and helps portray the essence of their personality.  The effect is an image that creates a certain altered reality, like a whimsical scene from a fairy tale. Sequoia thanks for taking the [...]

Sexuality has a strange position in our culture.  It remains somewhat taboo – we don’t really talk about it, yet we assume that couples are engaging in reasonably satisfying sexual lives. This may not be true.  Since we don’t discuss it, we don’t really know. Dr. Shavana Fineberg, 38-year Psychologist, recently closed her general practice [...]

Ashland, Oregon LocalsGuide Print Edition – May 2011

Here is a quick interview template I worked up to assist in the creation of great interviews. IT’S SO EASY … That I want to share my formula with you so you can interview all the cool people you know or want to know. Seriously Use my technique and help get your friends, neighbors and [...]

This is your opportunity to write local reviews which positively engage and honor local businesses. Our guidelines here at the LocalsGuide is pretty simple for writing business reviews. “Focus on the Best – Forget the Rest“. In other words stay focused on the green light and do a review on the highest and best of [...]

    The audience is seated, the lights dim, the overture begins, the curtain parts. For a brief moment in time, reality is suspended in the magical world of theatre. Months of preparation have gone into this moment. A group of dedicated and talented people has been working to create a fragile web that will [...]

How did you get into the business? I floated for the first time in 1982 and was astounded by the rapid journey to the land of theta waves. When I moved to Ashland 3 years ago, this seemed like the right place and the right time for me to introduce more people to this relaxing [...]

Our Interview Process This is a quick overview of how we conduct interviews at LocalsGuide. Please read these guidelines so that you will understand our editorial process involved in creating and publishing your interview. THIS IS YOUR STORY, Not Ours The LocalsGuide interview process is a different because we feel that you should play a [...]

Knowing By Kit Crumb 83940219839271374010739220141091275778 19834650762591847352609347165272840910 98406401710930474090174010102902748238 17393910103838027837134484693009375021 If you’re wondering what all the numbers are about then you haven’t seen the movie Knowing, starring Nicolas Cage and co-staring Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury and Lara Robinson. I included four lines of numbers to give you a little insight into the future (you’ll understand when you [...]

By Becky Brown of Ashland CarShare You’ve gone ‘green’. You carry your own cloth bags to the grocery. You bring your mug to the coffee shop, you recycle, and you’ve planted a tree. Your thermostat stays down year round and you’re feeling pretty good about your carbon footprint, right? How about your vehicle of choice? [...]

We logged over 586,000 page views this past month. Does this look like a trend. Plan on 1 M by August.  

Friends, our site is growing! Amazingly LG jumped from 170 Thousand Page Views Last month to 360 Thousand this month. We will soon be enabling Groups, and a few other online services which should help us hit the 600K mile marker. Keep telling your friends, and lets begin to think about our friends in Grants [...]