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Independence becoming Oregon’s 1st smart city

INDEPENDENCE, Ore. (KOIN) — Fifteen minutes southwest of Salem sits Independence, Oregon: population 8,600. It’s a quaint and unassuming town that’s quietly becoming Oregon’s first smart city. “I ...
Statesman Journal

Independence to close city-owned museum, cut city hall, library hours

Facing a projected budget shortfall, Independence is closing its city-owned museum and reducing city hall and library hours. Despite the cuts, no city employees will be laid off. City officials hope ...
Oregonian

Independence, Oregon, haunts readers: who would have known?

"Haunted Independence, Oregon,'' by Marilyn Morton and the History Press. (historypress.net) It seems like such a sleepy little place. Independence, Oregon, the small burg across the Willamette River ...
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Discover the Spirit of Independence Oregon with Divine Distillers

PORTLAND, Ore (KOIN)- Each day this week, we are taking you on a whirlwind tour of two cities in the Willamette Valley that together form one community. On behalf of our sponsors at Divine Distillers, ...
The Business Journals

How Independence, Oregon, is becoming a smarter city

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Independence, Oregon, started down the path to be a smarter ...
Statesman Journal

It's taken a century to bring 'trolleys' back to Monmouth and Independence

When Paul Evans was an 18-year-old, first-time city councilor in Monmouth in 1988, he went to coffee shops and barber shops around town to hear what some of the city’s older residents would talk about ...