Do you need hope and inspiration with powerful skills for a lifetime taught from a compassionate expert with unique insight due to her own inspirational life story? Hypnotherapist Alaya M. Ketani, CHT, CPC, returned home to Ashland a year ago after two years in Boulder, Colorado, and has reestablished her private practice offering individual and group sessions in both her Ashland office in Hidden Springs Wellness Center, and The Boardroom in Grants Pass.

Acupuncturist Leslie Shanai Moyer began her studies in the healing arts of China after receiving help from an acupuncturist for her own chronic health issue. She now offers the treatment to people throughout the Rogue Valley, helping them regain physical healing and emotional balance.

Pro Nails & Waxing has a new ownership and new outlook. Michelle Diep, who has many years experience in the industry, moved down from Portland and bought the former Ashland Nails, located in the Ashland Shopping Center next to the Cinema.

Another year, another “Best of Ashland.” It was 27 years ago that we introduced this popular readers’ survey to Ashland, drawing off the success of the “Best of the Rogue Valley,” our sister publication in Grants Pass, which began in 1986. I had modeled the whole concept on a couple of free weekly newspapers in Denver, Colorado, and wondered if Southern Oregon would even care.

It was big news two weeks ago when Allan and Sallie Sandler, owner of the 139-year-old Masonic Lodge Building on the Plaza in Ashland, announced that they were adding a balcony to the third floor. It would be the largest project done on the Plaza in the last twenty-five years.