By Salem Reporter
Oregon’s psilocybin program stands on thousands of years of indigenous experience
A mushroom in Bush’s Pasture Park. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) As the first state nationwide to develop a psilocybin treatment program, Oregon is standing on the shoulders of thousands of years of expertise among indigenous people from Mexico to South America.…
Salem fire helps get elderly woman out of partly collapsed mobile home
The Salem Fire Department said Friday that pooling rainwater caused a mobile home to partially collapse in southeast Salem. (Twitter/Salem Fire Department) Salem firefighters helped rescue an elderly woman trapped in a partially collapsed mobile home off Southeast Lancaster Drive…
Salem weekly Covid report for April 15: New cases rising, hospitalizations remain low
Used masks fill a garbage can at Salem Hospital on Friday, Aug. 20, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Covid cases are ticking up again in Oregon both statewide and in the Salem area. Hospitalizations are low locally and regionally, but have…
Steele retires as treasurer, former commissioner appointed through 2022
Marion County Commissioner Danielle Bethell swears in Sam Brentano as county treasurer on March 30. (Facebook/Marion County) When Sam Brentano decided he wouldn’t seek re-election in 2020 after 17 years as a Marion County commissioner, he thought his days running…
Salem police issue 18 citations in 2 and a half hours for driving while using a phone
(Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Salem police last Thursday between 9:30 a.m. and noon reported issuing more than a dozen citations for using a phone while driving. As part of Distracted Driving Awareness Month, the Salem Police Traffic Team spent that period…
Oregon officials strive to rebuild trust in elections as 1 in 5 don’t believe 2020 results
A stack of counted and signed ballot envelopes at the Marion County Elections Office (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) About one in five Oregon voters, including about half of Republicans, believe voter fraud changed the results of the 2020 election. That’s one…
COLUMN: An extinct woodpecker, back from the dead?
A colorized rendition of a photograph taken by Arthur Allen of an Ivory-billed Woodpecker at a nest in Louisiana’s Singer Tract, 1935. (Cornell Lab of Ornithology) After almost eight decades without a confirmed sighting in the U. S. the federal…
Merkley meets with Salem officials, providers about local homeless services, need for federal funds
Sen. Jeff Merkley on a tour of Tanner Project, a transitional shelter for unhoused veterans on Thursday. (Ardeshir Tabrizian/Salem Reporter) In 10 years, Sen. Jeff Merkley hopes to drive into Salem, Eugene, Portland or any other city in Oregon and…
Despite ice storm losses, Salem on track to meet goal of increased tree cover
Streets around Salem were impassible in the days following the February 2021 ice storm due to downed trees and debris. (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter) Last year was rough for trees in Salem, with significant losses from the February 2021 ice storm…
Poll: Kotek leads Read in Democratic governor primary, many voters undecided
State Treasurer Tobias Read and former House Speaker Tina Kotek lead the Democratic primary field for governor. (Campaign photos) Former House Speaker Tina Kotek leads state Treasurer Tobias Read in the Democratic primary for governor, but the majority of Democratic…