PHOTOS: Salem Saturday Market kicks off a month early

Customers browse at the Salem Saturday Market on opening day, March 6, 2021 (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)

Salem’s market season kicked off over the weekend, an early opening to give vendors a longer season to sell their goods and food.

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The parking lot at 865 Marion St N.E. was about half full, with vendors selling homemade salsa, bison, baked goods and the first salad greens of the season.

Canned vegetables on display at the Salem Saturday Market on opening day, March 6, 2021 (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)

Customers browse at the Salem Saturday Market on opening day, March 6, 2021 (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)

Flowers at the Salem Saturday Market on opening day, March 6, 2021 (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)

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Ron Cooper

Photographer Ron Cooper and his wife Penny moved to Salem in 1969 to take a job as photographer at the Oregon Statesman (later the Statesman Journal). Their three children, Monica, Kimberly, and Christopher, attended and graduated from Salem public schools. Cooper retired from the Statesman Journal in 2001 but, has continued his passion for photography in many ways, including as a photographer for the Salem Reporter.