By Salem Reporter
AROUND OREGON: Warm Springs fights to preserve language as elders slip away
Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs elders from front to back, Viola Govenor, 82, Marcia Minthorn, 78, Willard Tewee, 72, and Lonnie James, 63, in a classroom where native language is taught on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. (Dean Guernsey/Bend Bulletin)…
AGENDA: Marion County Commissioners consider fire sprinkler purchase, child abuse prevention month
Marion County Courthouse Square (Caleb Wolf/Special to Salem Reporter) The Marion County Board of Commissioners will meet Wednesday to consider approving a newly titled position in the Health and Human Services Department, fire sprinklers for the jail and proclamation declaring…
Salem police arrest 18-year-old following northeast Salem shooting
A Salem police vehicle. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Salem police arrested an 18-year-old Friday in connection with a shooting that occurred in early March. Police acknowledged the uptick in shootings in northeast Salem in recent weeks and said teamwork with the…
Salem-Keizer adds two days to school year as ice storm makeup
Lucas Gage arrives by bus for the first day of in-person kindergarten at Richmond Elementary on Tuesday, March 2. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) The school year will now end on June 17 for thousands of students in the Salem-Keizer School District.…
AROUND OREGON: Judge rules Ontario prison must enforce mask mandate, consider rapid tests for employees
Snake River Correctional Institution (File/Malheur Enterprise) ONTARIO – A state judge last week ordered officials at Snake River Correctional Institution in Ontario to devise a plan to enforce mask use at the prison and to deploy mass testing after finding…
With low inventory and high demand, Salem’s housing market tightens
Gladys Blum, Blum Real Estate principal broker, puts a ‘sale pending’ banner on a real estate sign on Wednesday, March 24. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) With his wife and two kids cooped up during the pandemic, Derrick McIntosh’s two-bedroom south Salem…
Watch Gov. Brown, Superintendent Christy Perry talk school reopening at 1 p.m.
Gov. Kate Brown talks during a video call with regional economic advisors in the south Willamette Valley and central Oregon coast on Monday, April 20. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Gov. Kate Brown will join state and local school officials, including Salem-Keizer…
Covid vaccine appointments open for April 1 clinic in Woodburn
Syringes of the Pfizer vaccine during a COVID-19 vaccine clinic at the Oregon State Fairgrounds on Thursday, Jan. 28. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) People eligible to get a Covid vaccine can do so from the comfort of their car in Woodburn…
Oregon House effectively halts work out of Covid concerns
The Oregon State Capitol closed its doors until further notice on March 18. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) The Oregon House has again put work on hold after another Covid scare. An individual who was diagnosed with Covid was last in the…
Rocket captured on video lights up sky Thursday night
A rocket flew over the sky Thursday night. (Courtesy/ Angela Hendrick) Salem residents who looked to the sky Thursday night around 9 p.m. saw debris from a Falcon 9 rocket that didn’t have a successful deorbit burn, according to the…