Salem, Oregon News
Uncategorized Chuck Zobrist sorts empty bottles and cans dropped off by a neighbor to redeem for charity. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Empty bottles and cans are the latest way for Oregonians to save for college. A new partnership between BottleDrop and the Oregon College Savings Plan lets Oregon recyclers transfer money from[Read More…]
Uncategorized Bus driver Terry Woods holds one-year-old Kash Bledsoe, one of his regular bus riders, at Salem-Keizer’s Teen Parent Program (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Parents, students and colleagues nominated 53 local educators for Crystal Apple Awards this year. The award, given annually by the Salem-Keizer Education Foundation, recognizes staff who make a[Read More…]
Uncategorized The 2019-20 Salem-Keizer School Board (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Salem-Keizer school board members will fill two vacancies on the district’s budget committee at their meeting Tuesday night, picking from among 15 people who have applied for the volunteer role. Committee members serve three year terms and review the superintendent’s proposed budget[Read More…]
Uncategorized Preschool students play in a Salem-Keizer classroom at the East Salem Community Center on Oct. 22, 2019 (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Oregon will spend millions of dollars to allow thousands more kids to attend preschool next fall, including tripling the size of a free program for middle-income families. The money could[Read More…]
Uncategorized Tony Villaneda touches up a painting in a graffiti art exhibit about the school-to-prison pipeline in the Bush Barn Annex on Nov. 7, 2019. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) The smell of spray paint hung thick in the air of the Bush Barn Annex Thursday evening as a half dozen teen artists[Read More…]
Uncategorized Darbie Versoza in the studio for her show on 105.5 The Moon (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) On air, Darbie Versoza introduces herself as “Darbie, your one friend who still listens to ska.” Her Tuesday show on The Moon, Salem’s homegrown indie radio station kicked off this week with OK Go and[Read More…]
Jared Vergara Santana, left, Evelyn Francis, right, Iris Johnson, right back and Lillyana Green, back left, write during class at Hoover Elementary School. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Want a say in how $35 million is spent in local schools? Salem-Keizer School District leaders are looking to hear from citizens about how[Read More…]
Uncategorized West Salem robotics and computer science teacher Greg Smith was honored with a 2019 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) There’s not much lecturing in Greg Smith’s class. Within the first 15 minutes, students are set loose to experiment with programming robots to pick[Read More…]
Uncategorized Jared Vergara Santana writes down research questions for his newspaper article in the Hoover Elementary School library on Oct. 29, 2019 (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) A dozen fourth-grade students at Hoover Elementary School bent over papers, brainstorming questions they wanted to research for future news articles. They’re the youngest journalists in[Read More…]
Uncategorized Project coordinator Joe Bonanno shows a new career and technical education addition under construction on the south side of North Salem High School (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Want to learn more about how Salem-Keizer school officials are spending hundreds of millions on construction projects? A citizen committee tasked with overseeing the[Read More…]
