State wine industry took a hit in 2020, but industry officials optimistic
Three-year report shows significant decline in sales, wages and other indices from 2019 to 2020.
The three-year period from 2016 to 2019 was a strong one for Oregon s wine industry, a recently released report indicates. The past year, however, saw setbacks in what historically were annual upticks in crop value and sales.
The report is conducted by a pair of economic researchers from Economic Forensics and Analytics and Full Glass Research every three years and released by the Oregon Wine Board. It says the state s 1,297 wine grape growers produced a crop valued at $237.8 million in 2019, an increase of 14% over the previous year for the state s top fruit crop. It was only two years ago that the state topped the $200 million mark in wine grape production.
PGE pledges $75K in assistance to Clackamas County nonprofits
CEO Maria Pope summarizes power company s recovery efforts following historic ice storm
Portland General Electric Chief Executive Officer Maria Pope told Clackamas County leaders Thursday that the county was far and away the hardest hit by the ice storm earlier this month, knocking out power to more than 144,000 residents.
In her 45-minute update to the Board of County Commissioners on Feb. 25, Pope said around 500 Clackamas County residents were still without power, and those cases are posing a lot of complex challenges to PGE crews who have come from as far as Montana and California to assist PGE crews in getting power restored. Commissioners also heard from PGE Vice President Larry Bekkedahl about the adverse factors that caused the unprecedented number of outages and how PGE is beginning to reimagine some of the ways it delivers services, as well as how we coexist with the natural environment.
February 24 2021
A committee to oversee the Portland Police Bureau s new the Portland Police Bureau s new Enhanced Community Safety Team is being formed.
Community leaders are struggling with strategies to reduce gun violence.
The Multnomah County Local Public Safety Coordinating Council hosted a countywide gun violence reduction meeting on Wednesday to discuss the rise in crime.
During the Feb. 24 meeting, council members talked about creating a community oversight committee for the Portland Police Bureau s new Enhanced Community Safety Team that s tasked with responding to and investigating shootings. The new team which includes three police sergeants, 12 officers and six detectives started responding to calls last week.
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