After months of anticipation and a few delays, The Oregon Garden Resort opened for business Wednesday, Sept. 24. The lodge, conference center, restaurant and spa complex is owned and operated by Moonstone Properties. The resort’s marketing program is expected to bring many visitors to Silverton.
A visitor plans her next step in the entry lounge.
Guests are greeted at the reception desk.
Sheri Comer prepares a bedroom for occupancy.
By Melissa Wagoner When the owners of Wurdinger Manufacturing in Silverton added a parts store to their well-established fabrication business in 2019, the goal was to cut down on the number of trips their fabricators were making to Salem by stocking the pieces they needed most often. It wasn’t long before the company’s customers got wind of the new addition […]
By James Day The Future Foxes football and cheer program is heading into a new season with tons of momentum. The program, which serves boys and girls in third through eighth grades while also offering camp opportunities for younger athletes, included 203 football players and 102 cheerleaders last season. “As the program continues to grow,’ said board president Dan Mulick, […]
Stu Rasmussen’s main goal as he seeks a second consecutive mayoral term as is to “Keep Silverton Silverton.” Rather than work at remaking the community (especially the downtown area) “to conform to some pie-in-the-sky ideal of what a modern city should look like … indistinguishable in its cookie-cutter blandness,” he is adamant that the only major change he’d consider is a return to all two-way streets downtown.
