The sun near Mountaindale on July 31, 2017. Beginning November 1, you'll see less of it in the evening. Photo: Chas Hundley
Sunday, November 1 will have 25 hours instead of the usual 24 as the end of daylight saving time happens at 2 a.m., rolling back to 1 a.m. for a do over of the past hour. In other words, set your clock back one hour before you go to bed on Halloween night if you’re using a clock that doesn’t automatically tick to the turning tides of a tradition that made its way to the U.S. by 1918. On the plus side, it means one hour of extra sleep.It also means there’s one more hour until the election is finally ended on November 3. For most Oregonians and our neighbors in Washington and California, this may be the last time daylight saving time ends after the passage of Oregon Senate Bill 320 in the 2019 session of the Oregon Legislature dictated that “DST” would become permanent, with a big caveat. The law first had to be mirrored by Washington and California; both of the respective states passed similar laws, fulfilling that requirement, but for the law to take effect, the United States Congress must also approve the change, a move that appears to have bipartisan support in Washington D.C.The bill exempts that portion of Oregon that follows Idaho’s Mountain Time Zone due their economic landscape more closely following Idaho’s capital of Boise than the rest of Oregon. SB 320 gives a deadline of December 1, 2029 for Congress to approve the changes.
A recent rulemaking process from the Department of Land and Conservation Development could have limited what can be sold at farm stands, but an outsized public response to the potential rules put the process on an indefinite pause.
The Oregon Department of Emergency Management is urging Oregonians to be vigilant in the face of a National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin warning of a heightened threat environment amid the Israel-Iran war and U.S. airstrikes on Iran.
While most of the changes are only for Portland, some of the changes are statewide: Retailers will now only have to accept returns between the hours of 8 am and 8 pm, instead of all hours they are open, for instance. And as of July 1, canned wine, cider over 8.5% alcohol by volume, sake and mead con
More than a hundred teachers and staff from Banks' three public schools gathered in the Banks Elementary School cafeteria Aug. 19 for a breakfast with their peers and school officials as another school year began. With construction, new security, and a cell phone ban looming, many changes await staf
A crash in Glenwood snarled Labor Day weekend traffic for up to three miles and resulted in minor injuries to at least four people, Forest Grove Fire & Rescue said Saturday.
