By Salem Reporter
PHOTOS: Adapting to restrictions, Shangri-La hosts drive-thru Easter Egg event
Todd Helman gives a hug to Shangri-La employee Ruth Walton prior to playing a game during Shangri-La’s accessible egg hunt drive-thru event on Saturday, April 3. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) The smiles were big, the Easter eggs plentiful and the weather…
Willamette Heritage Center to reopen April 6
Willamette Heritage Center (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter) If you’ve been missing local history over the past months, you’re in luck. Willamette Heritage Center is reopening its indoors exhibits to the public April 6. Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4…
PHOTOS: Car parade aims to raise awareness about child abuse
Participants in a child abuse prevention car parade drive past the Oregon State Capitol on April 2, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Cars decked in blue paraded past the Capitol Friday morning past a tree adorned in blue ribbons to raise…
Cherriots considers new bus service connecting Salem to Albany
A Cherriots bus on State Street outside the Oregon Capitol (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) If there was a bus line connecting Salem and Albany, would people ride it? That’s a central question of a study Cherriots is conducting. The transit agency…
Family of frontline workers can get a Covid vaccine in Oregon
Tom McLeod, an EMT with Metro West Ambulance, readies a second dose of the Moderna vaccine at a drive-thru COVID-19 vaccination clinic at Centennial Park in Woodburn, Ore. on Thursday, April 1, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Frontline workers in Oregon…
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE: Oregon Senate passes bill making it a crime to display a noose
The Oregon State Capitol canceled a Cherry Blossom Festival scheduled in March due to COVID-19. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) On Thursday, the Oregon Senate passed a bill that will create consequences for people who display a symbol long associated with racist…
Salem to host Ironman triathlon in July
People gathered on the gravel bar below Wallace Marine Park to cool off in the Willamette River on Thursday, July 30. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Expect to see swimmers in the Willamette River, runners near downtown and cyclists riding through wine…
Keizer city manager to resign after office gun episode
Keizer City Manager Chris Eppley The Keizer City Council accepted the resignation of City Manager Chris Eppley at a special meeting Thursday, April 1. The resignation is effective Monday, April 5. The city will offer Eppley six months salary and…
Salem professionals support legislation to make telemedicine a more routine part of health care
The Oregon State Capitol. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) Annaliese Ellsworth, a Salem-based therapist, recalled how it used to be like “rolling the dice” whenever a patient requested a video appointment. She followed up these requests with phone calls to insurance companies…
Salem Health rolls out mobile vaccine clinics in Marion, Polk counties
Salem Health began a Covid vaccine clinic at the state fairgrounds on Jan. 7 (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Salem Health is bringing Covid vaccines to rural areas and harder-to-reach people through a mobile vaccine clinic. The hospital began offering mobile vaccines…