By Salem Reporter
Salem students are glad to be back in school. That doesn’t mean it’s easy.
Miriam Cruz Bravo, student body president at Early College High School poses for a photo on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Salem’s high schoolers have a few things they’d like you to know. They’re glad to be at…
Police find multimillion-dollar marijuana operation tucked into Salem, Keizer neighborhoods
Police display some of the more than $280,000 in cash connected to a large-scale marijuana grow operation. A team led by the Keizer Police Department executed search warrants on Tuesday, Feb. 1, at homes in Salem and Keizer. (Keizer Police…
Data digest: Covid by the numbers for Feb. 4, 2022
The Oregon Health Authority’s Covid hospitalization dashboard for the mid-Willamette region on Feb. 4, 2022. As Covid hospitalizations remain high due to the omicron variant, Salem Reporter is again publishing case and hospitalization information daily. Here’s our report for Friday,…
Sheriff’s office looking for witnesses to Wednesday night shooting in Salem
Marion County Sheriff’s Office investigators are looking for witnesses to a shooting Wednesday night in southeast Salem. Just before 9 p.m. Wednesday, a 911 caller reported hearing gunshots in the area of southeast Lancaster Drive and LaBranch Street in an…
Luxury sales tax proposed for Oregon to help low-income parents, former foster youth
A luxury sales tax being proposed by Rep. Brad Witt, D-Clatskanie, could fund a new program offering monthly stipends for low-income pregnant women and youth leaving the foster care system. House Bill 4079 would create a 3% sales tax on…
Salem man found guilty of raping child, sentenced to more than eight years in prison
A Polk County judge Thursday sentenced a Salem man to more than eight years in prison after he was found guilty of raping a child under 12. A jury in Polk County found Dillon Robert Matthew Johnston, 24, guilty of…
Proposed Oregon rules would protect outdoor workers from extreme heat, wildfire smoke
A sprinkler waters a field amidst wildfire smoke in Aumsville on Sept. 8, 2020. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Oregon workers would get more breaks in high temperatures and respirators to protect them from wildfire smoke under new rules the state’s workplace…
Marion County gets state grant funds to help keep people out of prisons
(Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) For more than ten years, Marion County commissioner Kevin Cameron said county officials have sought programs to help get people out of the criminal justice system and back into their communities. “It’s been a big part of…
LOCAL HISTORY: The abolitionist’s son who made a home in Salem
The former home of Salmon Brown in Salem, Oregon, 1920 (Salem Public Library/Ben Maxwell collection) This column was originally written for the Willamette Valley Genealogical Society’s publication in a slightly different form and is shared here with permission. Salmon Brown…
National Guard back at Salem Hospital, with less stress than fall deployment
A national guardsman walks through the halls at Salem Hospital on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Oregon National Guard soldiers deployed to aid hospitals around the state last fall weren’t required to return in January. But Sgt. Shane…