Salem, Oregon News
Uncategorized Visitors read about Salem’s Mickey Mouse Club at Willamette Heritage Center’s new “Join the Club” exhibit (Courtesy/Willamette Heritage Center) For much of the 1930s, more than 1,000 children flooded Salem’s Elsinore Theatre on Saturday afternoons to watch Mickey Mouse cartoons and act in skits. They were members of the city’s[Read More…]
Uncategorized Radon risk for the greater Salem area is mostly low or moderate, according to January 2020 data. (Courtesy/Oregon Health Authority) Oregon public health officials want a better picture of radon levels across the state, and they’re looking for your help. Winter is the best time to test your home for[Read More…]
Uncategorized Salem Reads 2020 gets underway Feb. 5 (Courtesy/Salem Public Library Foundation) The Salem Public Library might be temporarily closing its doors, but book lovers will still have plenty to do in February as the city’s annual Salem Reads event gets underway. Now in its fourth year, the Salem Reads program[Read More…]
Rachael Lang, an 8th grade student at Whiteaker Middle School, recently won a national poetry contest (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Whiteaker Middle School eighth-grader Rachael Lang hadn’t heard of the Kent State massacre until two of her teachers covered it in class this year. But when the idealistic 14-year-old learned how[Read More…]
Uncategorized Volunteer Lorrie Walker, left, hands a bagged lunch to James Matthews during Salem’s 2020 homeless count (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Lorrie Walker trod along an improvised trail near Mill Creek, her rain boots covered in mud. “Good morning!” she called to a large tent covered in tarps. “We’re doing the homeless[Read More…]
Hallman students gather during the school’s morning assembly. (Fred Joe/Special to Salem Reporter) As the Salem-Keizer School District weighs how to spend millions of dollars in new state money, teachers are pushing to shrink class sizes. That’s put teachers at odds with a volunteer task force that will soon recommend[Read More…]
Uncategorized The 2019-20 Salem-Keizer School Board (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Salem-Keizer school board members will tackle school lunch, student behavior and more in a work session on Tuesday, Jan. 28. The board will begin with a presentation on the district’s meal program. The presentation was prompted in part by Englewood Elementary student[Read More…]
Sprague High School was tagged with swastikas, racist slurs and homophobic graffiti overnight, prompting an investigation into a possible hate crime from Salem police. District security discovered the graffiti overnight during a regular patrol around 4 a.m. Monday and alerted maintenance staff, district spokeswoman Lillian Govus said. The graffiti was[Read More…]
Uncategorized Volunteer Kris Hardy surveys a homeless man in the Winco parking lot during Salem’s 2019 point-in-time homeless count. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Local homeless service providers still need 30 volunteers to help with an annual count of homeless people in Marion and Polk counties this Wednesday, Jan. 29. The count is[Read More…]
Uncategorized A sign outside a home in Salem’s Fairmount neighborhood (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) Marion County will continue accepting refugee resettlement, commissioners told the U.S. State Department last week. “Marion County has welcoming and supportive nonprofits who administer refugee resettlement programs in our area. These groups are prepared to continue their work[Read More…]
