Salem, Oregon News
Uncategorized Cheryl Nester Wolfe, Salem Heath president and CEO, turns over dirt on the site of a new hospital building during a groundbreaking ceremony on Jan. 14, 2019 (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) One hundred twenty-four years ago, a group of citizens stood on a street corner in what’s now downtown Salem to[Read More…]
Uncategorized The 2019-20 Salem-Keizer School Board (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Salem-Keizer school board members will consider a property tax exemption for a 30-unit apartment building at their meeting Tuesday, Jan. 13. Board members will vote on exempting Parke 325, a new building at 325 13th Street NE, as part of the City of[Read More…]
Uncategorized A library-goer checks out a book at Salem Public Library. (Caleb Wolf/Special to Salem Reporter) A butcher paper tree is taped to the wall at the Salem Public Library between the nonfiction new arrivals and the fiction stacks. A sign on a nearby table invites visitors to take a post-it[Read More…]
A school lunch served at Englewood Elementary School on May 20, 2019. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Salem-Keizer families owe the school district nearly half a million dollars for unpaid school breakfasts and lunches, most of it accumulated since a 2017 state law change required districts to feed all students even if[Read More…]
Students get off the bus for the first day of school at Bush Elementary. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Salem-Keizer students improve their reading and math more than most U.S. students over the course of their education, according to a nationwide study by Stanford University. But they still remain behind their peers[Read More…]
Uncategorized Salem Hospital (Caleb Wolf/Special to Salem Reporter) The emergency room entrance at Salem Hospital will move next week as construction begins on a new building to accommodate a growing number of patients. Starting Jan. 8, patients should enter the emergency room at the north end of the hospital’s Building A[Read More…]
Uncategorized Trey, a 16-year-old staff assistant in the Marion County juvenile department wood shop, chisels a jewelry box on Dec. 31, 2019. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) On the last day of the year, three teens stood in a muddy yard in northeast Salem, chopping wood and feeding it through a log splitter.[Read More…]
Uncategorized Reporter Rachel Alexander (Fred Joe/Special to Salem Reporter) Truth be told, I’ve had trouble sitting down to reflect on 2019 because I have so many stories I’m excited to report in the works that it’s hard to pull myself away from a enticing spreadsheet or some scribbled notes. But I’m[Read More…]
Uncategorized A visitor marvels as blocks float to the top of a wind tube in the Up Up and Away exhibit at Gilbert House Children’s Museum (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Gilbert House Children’s Museum is bringing the bubbles back. Museum leaders expect to open a new bubbles exhibit in a greenhouse-like structure[Read More…]
Highland Elementary fifth-grader Emma Donecker, center, shows off new Dungeons and Dragons manuals for the school’s roleplaying game club, now in its second year (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Last school year Emma Donecker and Aly Mason fought a dragon, talked to a moon goddess, adopted a dinosaur and saved a small[Read More…]
