Salem, Oregon News
Uncategorized Visitors make s’mores during a July 2019 camping trip at Silver Falls State Park (Courtesy/Oregon Department of Parks and Recreation) Oregonians will be able to camp at more than two dozen state campgrounds beginning June 9, including Detroit Lake and Silver Falls in the Salem area. It’s the next step[Read More…]
Uncategorized Salem Transitional Care (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Employees at a Salem nursing home hit hard by the coronavirus re-used protective masks and didn’t sanitize or change protective equipment in between sick patients and those not yet tested for COVID-19, according to a report by the Oregon Department of Human Services. Salem Transitional Care,[Read More…]
Uncategorized Audrey Comerford loads a box of masks into Ethan Smith’s pickup. Smith was picking up masks for B&D Farms, of St. Paul. Oregon State University extension employees and the Oregon National Guard distributed masks and hand sanitizer to farmworkers and agricultural producers on Wednesday, May 27 at the Oregon State[Read More…]
Chemeketa Community College on Thursday, April 16. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Chemeketa Community College has laid off 250 part-time and student workers and is offering retirement incentives to others to trim spending for the coming year. More steps will likely be needed to balance the college’s budget for the 2020-21 because[Read More…]
Shelves at the Salem Public Library’s Broadway Street location on Feb. 18. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) Salem bookworms running out of reading material are in luck. The Salem Public Library, which has been closed since March 16, is now offering curbside pickup by appointment for holds placed before or during the[Read More…]
The Salem-Keizer budget committee in a May 19, 2020 meeting. Salem-Keizer’s budget committee will vote Tuesday night on a $1.5 billion district budget that represents an unlikely best-case scenario for Oregon’s second-largest school district in the coming year. The 233 page document, drafted before the coronavirus pandemic blew a hole[Read More…]
Uncategorized New Oregon Health Authority benchmarks show where local counties are performing well and falling short in stopping the spread of COVID-19. (Screenshot from Oregon Health Authority dashboard) Marion and Polk counties are failing to meet some state benchmarks used to track the severity of COVID-19 outbreaks, even as communities in[Read More…]
Uncategorized Two people walk through Willamette University on May 15. 2020. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Willamette University is furloughing 80 employees for two months and laying off 37 workers in the latest move to balance the budget amid revenue hits from event cancellations and dorm closures. The university’s Board of Trustees approved[Read More…]
Principals Suzanne Leonard, left, Julia DeWitt and Andrew Schiefer will take over new Salem-Keizer middle schools in the fall of 2020 (Courtesy/Salem-Keizer School District) Houck Middle School will have a new administration in the fall, part of a district effort to shift the school’s focus to helping students struggling with[Read More…]
McKay High School teacher Larkin Foley (Courtesy/Salem-Keizer School District) As a college senior at Willamette University, Larkin Foley got a chance to tutor local high school students. She was at the whiteboard, writing out an algebra problem for a small group. As the math started making sense to them, Foley[Read More…]
