If your New Year’s resolutions included (besides losing 25 lbs. you gained since resolving to lose 25 lbs. last year) more reading, then the Silver Falls Library has you covered. Oh sure, you can always walk in and take a book home with you but that is soooo 2016….. Savvy page perusers go to silverfallslibrary.org, click on the “Library 2 […]
So there you are, driving home from work on a day in late August and you encounter a traffic jam on the highway. Not wanting your spouse to hold dinner, you call to tell them that you might be a little late….like maybe mid-September.
By Jim Kinghorn The Silverton Wine & Jazz Festival is looking for new board members to work on the event for next year. For more information, call Jose DeLaRosa at 503-873-3072. If you look around Mt Angel these days you will find lots of new faces. No, not new people but new faces on many of the buildings. To celebrate […]
By Jim Kinghorn Silverton historian and long-time resident Jeff Brekas was back in town last week during the freak thunderstorms. Apparently Jeff was having an electrifying conversation when a nearby lightning strike sent a jolt through the phone strong enough to knock him to the floor. The Man was surprised to hear such a thing could happen, but I bet […]
By Jim Kinghorn Glenn Damewood has doubled the size of Mac’s Place’s creekside deck and also added a roof to make it enjoyable in any weather. It used to be you had to go out to the deck to avoid the smokers but with the new laws, now all of the smokers are out on the deck. Irony can be […]
The Man would like to introduce you to the newest member of the Our Town family – The Pup. Early indications are that she will be quite a newshound…
Well, we finally survived the “Winter Storm”, “Deep Freeze,” “Oh my gosh, we’re all gonna die,” “Arctic Blast” and came through pretty much unscathed (other than the power surge at The Man-sion which fried almost everything electronic in the house.)
