Madras Performing Arts Center
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‘60s Band The Cowsills to Perform Benefit Concert for New Madras Museum 

Jefferson County Historical Society to begin renovations on proposed facility this month
Avatar photoBy Jesse Coronado

The Cowsills, a popular band from the 1960s, will perform a benefit concert raising money to convert a church into a historical museum in Madras.   The Jefferson County museum will include exhibits with Native American themes, digital elements, antique photography and artifacts from the Homestead era.  The Jefferson County Historical Society begins renovations on the 6,400-square-foot building, known to locals as the Madras Gospel Mission Community Center, this month. Heating, ventilation and air conditioning […]

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Amazing Space

The Madras Performing Arts Center’s director reflects on first year
Avatar photo Jared Rasic

Jefferson County still has a bit of wildness left to it. While it incorporates Madras, Metolius, and Culver (with Warm Springs counting as a “Census-designated place”), there are still huge patches of wilderness in the Crooked River National Grassland, Deschutes National Forest, Mount Hood National Forest, and Willamette National Forest. While the area is abundant […]

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