Category City News
With death of her husband, Councilor Sally Cook says she will step down
Salem city hall (Salem Reporter) Sally Cook plans to resign her seat on Salem City Council soon, she informed City Manager Steve Powers on Thursday. The 39-year-old councilor said the sudden death of her husband three months ago and reality of being a single mother…
Hoping for affordable apartments, Salem eyes new twist on urban renewal
The Oregon State Hospital North Campus, pictured in April, where Mountain West Investment Corp. aims to build more than 40 homes and a 246-unit apartment. It could also be where the city of Salem uses its new incentive for affordable apartments. (Troy Brynelson/Salem Reporter) It…
First forum for Salem’s proposed “sit-lie” ordinance leaves residents, officials wanting more discussion
Kelly Teves, 48, voices her opposition to an idea to ban sitting or lying on city public rights-of-way for most hours of the day. Teves spoke during the first community forum held to discuss the proposal. (Troy Brynelson/Salem Reporter) The first public talks about a…
Neighbors of proposed Costco, shopping center file with Oregon Court of Appeals
The site of the proposed Kuebler Gateway Shopping Center in South Salem pictured September 2018. (Troy Brynelson/Salem Reporter) The fate of a proposed Costco-anchored shopping center in south Salem will be decided a little bit later than previously thought. Three neighbors in the South Gateway…
Downtown stakeholders split on ordinance to restrict sitting, lying on sidewalks
Robert Stone, of Cheyenne, Wyo., sits outside near a coffee shop in downtown Salem. The homeless Salem resident said he would “probably” be impacted by a proposed ban on sitting or lying down on public rights of way. (Troy Brynelson/Salem Reporter) Those who provide safety nets…
New York firm appears to be reviving shuttered Salem solar panel plant
An excavator drops dirt into a truck at Panasonic Corp.’s former solar panel plant in east Salem on Aug. 29. (Troy Brynelson/Salem Reporter) Construction workers have been busy at a closed solar panel factory in east Salem, but mystery shrouds their work. Sources in the…
Retirees snatching up new senior care homes as industry continues to boom
Construction crews work on one of the 17 new duplexes being built at Capital Manor on Aug. 6. (Troy Brynelson/Salem Reporter) At Capital Manor Retirement Community, an institution almost as old as its youngest residents, new life clambers together on the west side of campus.…
Plastic bag ban starts impacting small Salem retailers Sept. 1
People shop in downtown Salem in the winter. (Caleb Wolf/Special to Salem Reporter) Plastic bags that already disappeared from checkout stands at big grocers and other large retailers in Salem will soon be gone from small shops, too. Starting Sept. 1, retailers under 10,000 square…
Costco-anchored shopping center sent back to Salem City Council
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…