Twenty-two middle and high school students — one from each Salem and Keizer school — were honored Tuesday for making significant improvements in grades, behavior and attendance at school.

Events for the week starting Thursday, May 9, include a moms-only comedy show, a volunteer Pioneer Cemetery cleanup and the last weekend to catch “Ripcord” at the Pentacle Theatre.

Tobias Read is one of two Democratic frontrunners for the party’s secretary of state nomination.

A Salem woman has been charged in Polk County Circuit Court with stealing mail from mailboxes near Orchard Heights Park last November.

Sen. James Manning will face Treasurer Tobias Read and three other Democrats in the primary for secretary of state.

From Salem’s mayor to Oregon’s top law enforcement official, local voters have plenty to weigh in on this month. Ballots were mailed to voters starting May 1 and need to…