Category Neighborhoods
Stretch of trees planted at Riverfront Park honors Salem stream lover
Cheryl Hummon, who is retiring after 11 years with the Oregon Department of Agriculture, rolled up her sleeves with friends and coworkers to plant trees celebrating her work helping Oregon rivers and streams.
Bike repair station coming to Minto Brown Park
People cross the Peter Courtney Minto Island Bridge, which connects Minto Brown Island Park to Riverfront Park (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Salem’s largest park will soon have a station for cyclists to repair their bikes on the fly. A bike repair station with attached tools like…
Volunteers bring native plants to Englewood Park
Volunteers examine a clod of dirt during a work party at Englewood Park on Saturday, March 26, 2022 (Gerald Patrickson/Special to Salem Reporter) More than two dozen pairs of happy hands attacked the invasive growth on the east side of Salem’s Englewood Park Saturday in…
After overhauling ravine, Mission Street Parks Conservancy has ambitious plans for Salem parks
Gretchen Carnaby, a garden designer and co-founder of the Mission Street Parks Conservancy, shows off a Japanese maple the group planted in the Bush Pasture Park ravine. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) A dozen volunteers pulled weeds from bare dirt and sprayed water on newly-planted Japanese maple…