Salem, Oregon News
Uncategorized Nancy Bee, nurse manager for the Salem Health emergency department, shows a treatment room for a less seriously ill patient. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) The sound system crackled to life in the busiest emergency room in the Northwest. “Code blue, three minutes, room seven,” came the announcement. An ambulance was about[Read More…]
Uncategorized Marion County Courthouse. (Caleb Wolf/Special to Salem Reporter) Sam Brentano, who has served on the Marion County Board of Commissioners since 2003, won’t seek reelection in 2020. Brentano also plans to endorse current Salem-Keizer School Board member Danielle Bethell, who announced her candidacy Wednesday. “I have been a County Commissioner[Read More…]
Uncategorized Marion County’s waste disposal partner was unable to secure from 2019 legislators a lucrative deal that would deem the company a renewable energy producer and now the Brooks plant’s future is in question. Now, Covanta and the county are publicly making veiled threats that, if lawmakers don’t pass a proposal[Read More…]
Uncategorized The site of the proposed Kuebler Gateway Shopping Center in South Salem. (Troy Brynelson/Salem Reporter) A sprawling shopping center on Kuebler Boulevard, anchored by a Costco Wholesale, will likely go back before Salem City Council. The State Land Use Board of Appeals on Wednesday remanded the council’s decision from December,[Read More…]
Uncategorized Scattered trash and belongings at an encampment near Marion Square Park. The city announced this week it plans to evict the camp Tuesday. Concerns arose afterward about a program that provides free meals. (Troy Brynelson/Salem Reporter) After word spread the city of Salem would cancel a program that helped feed[Read More…]
Uncategorized The homeless camp under the Marion Street bridge pictured in December. The camp was given a notice to evict by the end of the week. (Troy Brynelson/Salem Reporter files) UPDATE 4:35 p.m. Jan. 9: The city of Salem issued a press release. The release said the city had received “reports[Read More…]
Uncategorized Two women jog Monday at Minto-Brown Island Park on a trail less than a mile south of the Peter Courtney Minto Island Bridge. (Troy Brynelson/Salem Reporter) After a report surfaced Thursday of a man kidnapping and trying to rape a woman in Minto-Brown Island Park, some Salem residents took to[Read More…]
