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Car choir performs for retirement home in first show off campus
The Chemeketa Car Choir performed for residents at Capital Manor Sunday, April 11. (Courtesy/Ken Porter) The Chemeketa Community College car choir had its largest audience yet Sunday as the singers took their show on the road to Capital Manor in west Salem. There, hundreds of…
After meandering path marked by ‘oddball invocations,’ Willamette University’s “heart and soul” plans her retirement
Karen Wood, Willamette University chaplain, will retire in July 2021 (Courtesy/Willamette University) For over a decade, Karen Wood, the chaplain at Willamette University, has had a challenging task: addressing hundreds of faculty, students and their family from different faith traditions (or none at all) in…
First tribally owned medication-assisted treatment clinic opens in Salem
Jennifer Worth, operations director at Great Circle Recovery, holds up a hygiene kit they’ll hand out to unsheltered clients at a new medication-assisted treatment clinic operated by the Confederated Tribes of Grande Ronde. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) For years, the Confederated Tribes of Grande Ronde has…
PHOTOS: Car parade aims to raise awareness about child abuse
Participants in a child abuse prevention car parade drive past the Oregon State Capitol on April 2, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Cars decked in blue paraded past the Capitol Friday morning past a tree adorned in blue ribbons to raise awareness about child abuse in…
Chemeketa plans to resume classes in the fall, anxious if students will return
Chemeketa Community College on Thursday, April 16, 2020. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) One year ago, Chemeketa Community College instructors and staff moved more than 1,600 scheduled courses online with just two weeks’ notice. But about 2,000 students opted not to follow. So far, they haven’t come…
Austrian music, absurdist poetry coming to Salem as Oregon Symphony plans October return
The Oregon Symphony performs at Smith Auditorium in Salem in November 2019 (Courtesy/Danielle Peterson, Oregon Symphony) Peter Frajola learned to play the violin as a child in Salem under the direction of his parents, both musicians. This fall, he’s eager to return to Willamette University’s…
Three people arrested following left- and right-wing clash at Capitol
Police lined up near the Oregon State Capitol on Sunday, March 28 after declaring an unlawful assembly. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) 12:20 p.m. This story was updated with an additional arrest reported by Oregon State Police. Police arrested four people after a Sunday event in which…
With an uncertain reopening, Salem’s events magazine ponders its future
Copies of Press Play Salem, which hasn’t printed in more than a year because of event cancelations. (Courtesy/ Carlee Wright) It’s been more than one year since issues of Press Play Salem have dotted coffee shops and bars offering residents a one-stop source for concerts,…
After helping write landmark laws and keeping Salem’s nonprofits humming, Ken Sherman retires
Ken Sherman Jr. holds out a treat for Max the cat in the library of his condo in downtown Salem on Wednesday, March 24. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Ken Sherman Jr. is the first to admit that the minutiae of Oregon’s wage garnishment laws don’t make…