Who stole Sweet Emma? That question haunted New Orleans artist MJ Robitaille for 13 years, ever since her life-size plywood painting of Sweet Emma Barrett, a jazz pianist, singer and Preservation Hall icon, disappeared from the 2011 Voodoo Music Experience in City Park. Sweet Emma, Robitaille assumed, was gone forever. And then, in March, she…
Your browser does not support the audio element. Last weekend volunteers painted the old City Hall building and a downtown restaurant in Sweet Home, Oregon. The small town pitched the idea to Miller Paint Company as a way to revitalize the downtown and convince drive-through tourists to stop and spend money. Like many small towns…
Sweet Home’s “Paint the Town” project, supported by volunteer labor and donations from local businesses, will paint dozens of town buildings in an effort to make the area more inviting to visitors SWEET HOME, Ore. — A weeks-long effort to paint buildings in town to make the area more inviting to visitors…
Sweet Home is painting the town red — blue, green and burgundy too. Downtown Sweet Home businesses are getting a fresh coat of paint in a quarter-million-dollar effort to beautify the town, bolster businesses and spur tourism. Starting this summer, Sweet Home residents and volunteers will be putting their paint brushes to buildings along Main and…
