By Salem Reporter
Salem Dream Center seeks help during quarantine
Craft Time at the Salem Dream Center. (Courtesy/Salem Dream Center) Salem Dream Center, a nonprofit located in west Salem, is continuing to work to support children and families despite the less-than-ideal circumstances. Since 2004, the organization has worked to help…
As businesses turn to a federal relief program, questions stand between paychecks
A view of Liberty Street in downtown Salem on Thursday, April 2. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing free access to its content related to the coronavirus as a community service. Subscriptions are vital to continue this so please sign…
PHOTOS: Cherriots get ready to roll through Salem and Keizer – with limited service
Cherriots employee Ryan Miller marks down tape at six-foot intervals where stickers will be placed to allow for line formation under social distancing at the Downtown Transit Center on Monday, April 6. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) FASTSIGNS employees Jon Maxwell, right,…
As Salem grapples with the virus, the old challenges still haunt homeless
The loneliness of being homeless in Salem is accentuated by Gov. Kate Brown’s “stay home” order, which has emptied the city of many people. (Diane Beals/Salem Reporter) I received a fist bump on Sunday through my car window from Tera, a…
New fund drive launches to sustain Salem Reporter’s free coverage
The note from our reader was polite yet apologetic. In her email message, the reader explained that she couldn’t afford to subscribe to Salem Reporter right now – she was out of work, at home. She wanted me to know,…
The Yard of Salem remains full of food carts, but customers stay at home
There’s no waiting in line these days at the food trucks that make up The Yard. Customers are scarce, but the food truck operators are determined to dish out good food and good service to those who show up at…
PHOTOS: With joy, local teachers and their students cheer each other – from a distance
Teacher Cortney Clendening from Clear Lake Elementary School, destined now to do distance learning, went on parade Friday, April 3, in Keizer to say hello to students. (Diane Beals/Salem Reporter) With the school year likely to finish up with students…
Department of Consumer and Business Services gets a new director
Andrew Stolfi. (Courtesy/Governor’s office) Oregon’s largest business regulatory and consumer protection department has a new head. Gov. Kate Brown has appointed Andrew Stolfi to serve as the director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services. “I believe strongly in…
How one Salem company is helping out with the shortage of personal protective equipment
Nadia Kifyak and Russ Monk, managers at WaterShed, Inc., try on new medical gowns that their company has recently begun producing in response to the shortage of personal protective equipment. (Caleb Wolf/Salem Reporter) NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing free access…
Computers, apps, chats and gloves: Salem’s churches turn to new tools to stay connected
Jon Lemmond, lead pastor at Trinity Covenant Church in Salem, now records Sunday sermons and posts them online so that parishioners can view them from home amid social distancing guidelines. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing free access…