Lights out looming for tens of thousands of Marion County residents
On a rainy, and windy day, Feb. 15, a lineman for Salem Electric works to repair power lines damaged by a weekend ice storm. (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)
Nearly 24,000 residents of Marion County are at risk of having their electricity or gas shut off when a statewide moratorium on disconnections of residential expires at the end of July.
The Oregon Public Utility Commission enacted the moratorium earlier in the pandemic as people across the state…
