Salem, Oregon News
Uncategorized Chemeketa Community College (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Chemeketa Community College board members will consider a contract for incoming President Jessica Howard at a meeting Wednesday, the final step in hiring her to take over college operations in July. Board members selected Howard from among four finalists to succeed retiring President Julie[Read More…]
Uncategorized Salem Hospital (Caleb Wolf/Special to Salem Reporter) Oregon Health Authority has confirmed a second case of measles in Marion County, health officials announced Tuesday evening. Both cases are in unvaccinated people and are linked to an out-of-state traveler contagious with the disease who traveled to the Salem area in late[Read More…]
Responding to declining enrollment and revenue, Chemeketa Community College is planning to cut 33 positions, including laying off seven employees for the 2019-20 school year. The announcement comes after the college’s board voted to raise tuition and fees by $10 per credit in February, the largest such increase in over[Read More…]
Uncategorized Tam, left, a member of the Salem Islamic Center, stands with her granddaughter as Brittany Cox, right, and Cherie MacDougall offer flowers and condolences following a mass shooting at two New Zealand mosques. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Women entering the Salem Islamic Center before Friday’s mid-day prayer greeted each other as[Read More…]
Uncategorized Salem Hospital (Caleb Wolf/Special to Salem Reporter) Measles has been confirmed in a Marion County resident, county health officials announced Tuesday. The patient is from Salem and is unvaccinated for measles, said Katrina Rothenberger, the county’s public health director. Rothenberger said the county was not releasing the patient’s age or[Read More…]
IKE Box, the downtown coffee house, will be moving to a new location in the same neighborhood – and taking the building with it. IKE Box director Mark Bulgin knew the coffee shop and community hub on Cottage Street at Chemeketa Street might have to move after Salem’s YMCA announced[Read More…]
Uncategorized The Salem-Keizer School Board (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Salem-Keizer School Board members will conduct their annual evaluation of Superintendent Christy Perry at a meeting Tuesday night and consider new contracts for two high-level district administrators. Chief operations officer Mike Wolfe and human resources director John Beight would both see their contracts[Read More…]
Jessica Howard will be the 11th president of Chemeketa Community College (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) A Portland Community College administrator will be Chemeketa Community College’s next president, the college board announced Monday. Jessica Howard, who currently serves as campus president for Portland Community College’s southeast campus, has accepted a job offer[Read More…]
Uncategorized Sandra Hernández-Lomelí, Latinos Unidos Siempre director, holds paintings made by young people at the organization’s northeast Salem office. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) When Sandra Hernández-Lomelí was 12, she was arrested for tagging on a Salem street. Like many of her peers, Hernández-Lomelí used graffiti to express herself. But instead of getting[Read More…]
Students enter Swegle Elementary on the first day of school in 2018. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) A substitute teacher was fired by the Salem-Keizer district after students reported she told a fifth-grade student to “go back to Mexico” when he declined to say the Pledge of Allegiance on Tuesday. Her comment[Read More…]
