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LISTEN IN: City buys up more downtown property but for what purpose?

.TODAY’S ENGAGING CONVERSATION:  Managing Editor Rachel Alexander explains why City Hall is plunking down $3.5 million to buy vacant ground downtown. City officials see themselves as developers for the good of the community. The story she produced is HERE. She also tells about a Salem teacher using sea shanties and why she’s music educator of the year, reported HERE. And Salem’s seniors will get a break with a new tiny home project just for them. That story HERE.

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