In corresponding with Les Mahler, editor of The Benicia Herald, I was reminded of The Ashland Dailing Tidings, which in turn reminded me of the threat that all Jackson County Libraries were closing down in April for lack of funds. We’ve been going to Ashland each year since our older son was young — his school class was the reason we went —  for Shakespearean and other theatre, so the thought of a city of Ashland’s qualities without a library was certainly tragic even though we didn’t go to the library more than a few times. But then we don’t live there: we just visit.

I checked a few library links, but none of them worked any longer.

I then checked jcls.org. How awful for a city like Ashland with a beautiful library building that was renovated not that long ago to now have no library at all.