TALENT, Ore. – Almost anywhere you go in Talent, you’ll hear the sound of construction.
It’s a sign of progress, as the city rebuilds from the 2020 Almeda Fire.
A process that has taken longer than many had hoped.
“It’s been a long road since September 2020,” Ashland representative Pam Marsh. “Well more than two years at this point. And it seems like recovery should be done by now, but it’s not.”
However, representative Marsh believes 2023 will be the year we see tangible evidence of recovery from the devastating fire.
“We have a number of housing projects and a couple of other community based projects that now finally have money, they have the go ahead,” she said. “And I think we’re going to actually see them in construction and in many cases occupied by the end of the year.”
Some of those new projects include the completion of the Royal Oaks manufactured home…
