Salem, Oregon News
Uncategorized The Salem-Keizer School Board will hear Tuesday the district’s plan to shift school boundaries starting next year to relieve overcrowding at many school in northeast Salem. The board isn’t scheduled to vote on the plan until Feb. 12 and have asked people with comments on the changes to wait until[Read More…]
Jessica Zamarron helps students with a math assignment in a bilingual Swegle Elementary School classroom. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Jessica Zamarron was inspired by her first-grade teacher at Swegle Elementary. Seeing Karina Rodriguez, another bilingual Latina, in front of the classroom, Zamarron knew her teacher had similar life experiences. If she[Read More…]
Uncategorized Salem-Keizer Superintendent Christy Perry addresses a room full of educators at a meeting with Rep. Teresa Alonso Leon (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Salem-Keizer educators are cheering an ambitious legislative package to reduce class size, hire more counselors in schools and help more classroom aides become teachers. At a meeting Tuesday evening[Read More…]
Uncategorized Sheriff Jason Myers (Courtesy/Marion County Sheriff’s Office) After a decade on the job, Marion County Sheriff Jason Myers will step down in June to work for the Oregon State Sheriffs’ Association. Myers told his staff of the decision Tuesday. “It’s been a great job and I’ve enjoyed working for the[Read More…]
Uncategorized Josh Lair stands by Marion Square Park, where many of his clients spend their time. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Josh Lair has learned one secret to earning trust when police call him out to meet a prospective client. Don’t look like a cop. Few people would mistake the 6-foot-2 social worker[Read More…]
The Salem-Keizer School District is going to court to force a Keizer church to sell its land. At issue are about six acres of bare land owned by St. Edward Catholic Church that district leaders say they need to expand the campus of the adjacent McNary High School. Church leaders[Read More…]
Uncategorized Janet Neuberg, left, stands with friends Jim and Joan Stembridge outside the Stembridge home in south Salem. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Jim and Joan Stembridge didn’t set out to spend their retirement years as landlords. But after purchasing and remodeling their third rental home this year, they concede the label fits.[Read More…]
Uncategorized Chuck Zobrist inspects a bag of bottles and cans dropped off by a neighbor. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Chuck Zobrist doesn’t drink much soda or beer. But the 80-year-old has become a fixture at the North Salem Bottle Drop, where he turned in more than 18,000 cans and bottles last year.[Read More…]
Uncategorized Dave West receives a Christmas gift as part of his Meals on Wheels delivery. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) It was 10:30 a.m. and Salem’s Meals on Wheels dining room was bustling. Dozens of volunteers filled insulated bags with plastic trays holding chicken enchiladas, salad, chips and salsa – the Wednesday meal[Read More…]
Uncategorized More than two months after a 10-year-old student took a gun to a Salem elementary school, local government officials continue to keep details about what happened away from the public. The Marion County Sheriff’s Office last week closed an investigation into how the student obtained the gun, spokesman Lt. Chris[Read More…]
