Category Community
New homeless alliance director leads with compassion
With a background in public health, Elaine Lozier facilitates hard conversations as the new executive director of the Mid-Willamette Valley Homeless Alliance.
COLUMN: The pandemic’s lingering effects on the Salem economy
Transportation and warehouse jobs are down from a pandemic high, while other sectors have seen jobs largely recovery, writes columnist Pamela Ferrara.
PHOTOS: Thousands find glory, friendship on the court at Hoopla
Basketballers took over Salem's streets all weekend as the Hoopla tournament saw record turnout.
REPORTER’S COLUMN: What Northgate residents value about their neighborhood, and what they’d change
Schools, the local park and a sense of peace were among what Northgate residents praised about their neighborhood. At their annual Fun Friday event, neighbors said they wanted to see a heavier police presence and reductions in homeless camping, drug use and gangs.
EVENTS: Celebrate Oregon history with logging and heavy machinery
The Great Oregon Steam-Up festival returns this weekend with demonstrations of historic workmanship and a parade of steam engines and other vehicles. Other events this weekend include a movie at Riverfront Park, Hoopla and a Blues performance.
Advocates for peace will walk, talk nuclear weapons in Salem Friday
The annual Northwest Interfaith Peace Walk for a Nuclear-Free Future will make its way through Salem Friday, ending with a program highlighting Marshallese Salemites who are from Bikini Atoll, where the U.S. tested nuclear weapons for years.
“A demonstration of resilience:” one family’s journey to housing in Salem
A family of six received an AC unit to make their new apartment more comfortable after staying in the Family Promise shelter program for six months.
PHOTOS: MIG Fest draws enthusiastic crowd
MIG Fest, Salem's only punk and ska music festival held on an organic farm, returned for a third year.
Hoopla back for another year of forging friendships through basketball
More than 1,000 teams are signed up to compete in this year’s 3x3 Hoopla basketball tournament, which will take over streets by the Oregon Capitol starting Tuesday, July 25.