Folks from Ashland and surrounding communities gathered Thursday at Freer Field for opening night of the 34th Ashland BalloonFest.
Freer Field
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In pursuit of darkness: Ashland man crosses continents seeking eclipses
ASHLAND — Mike Spreng’s grandfather gave him and his brother a telescope in 1963. From then on, Spreng loved looking up to space. As an adult, that love has taken Spreng globetrotting. Over the last 20 or so years, Spreng, a retired dentist from Ashland, has seen five different solar eclipses, traveling the world to […]
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Former triathlete battling Alzheimer’s gets wish to run again
ASHLAND — Carol Kurek likes to run. It makes her feel good. She doesn’t do it as often as she used to, during her triathlon and marathon years. She’s been a resident at The Good Shepherd (TGS), a Lutheran Social Services nursing home in Ashland, for a year now. A year before that, doctors diagnosed […]