Salem, Oregon News
Uncategorized Rick Segal, left, and Carmelo Mejia, internal medicine doctors with Kaiser Permanente in Salem, type notes during a shift at Salem Free Clinic (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Rick Segal sat at a long desk between two other doctors, quickly typing notes on a laptop before returning to an exam room. He[Read More…]
Uncategorized Children march along Lancaster Drive during Salem’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) “This march is not about the numbers. It’s about the commitment.” Benny Williams, Salem-Keizer’s NAACP president, kicked off Salem’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day march by urging the nearly 100 marchers to defend the[Read More…]
Uncategorized Salem residents pray on the Oregon Capitol steps during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration in 2019 (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Salem residents can celebrate a civil rights leader’s legacy and get help with healthcare, housing and more at this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration. From 10 a.m.[Read More…]
Uncategorized The Willamette University campus in Salem (Courtesy/Willamette University) Aspiring doctors, epidemiologists, social workers and others can now major in public health at Willamette University. Oregon’s oldest university is rolling out the program this spring, and professors spearheading it said interest is already strong. They’ve had to increase the enrollment cap[Read More…]
Uncategorized Micah Zavala logs in to his student account at the Baker Web Academy student center in Salem as his mother, Sara, and school support Suzy Kottek look on. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Schools serving thousands of Oregon students online won’t see any additional money to support them while Oregon embarks on[Read More…]
Uncategorized Art teacher Brenda Dobbins slides a ring made of a recycled seltzer can onto the finger of Leslie Villaseñor, a 6th grade student at Leslie Middle School, during art class at 2019 migrant summer school. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) More than 200,000 Oregon kids who want to enroll in an after[Read More…]
Uncategorized Salem-Keizer superintendent Christy Perry passes out portraits from Hallman Elementary School students at a Jan. 14, 2020 school board meeting (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Salem-Keizer school board members got a framed surprise at an otherwise uneventful Tuesday night meeting. To celebrate Oregon’s School Board Recognition Month, students at Hallman and Myers[Read More…]
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…]
