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In uncertain times, Salem cellist turns to music for connection
Joseph Harchanko filmed himself playing cello at the Oregon State Capitol State Park on Sunday. (Ron Cooper/Special to Salem Reporter) NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing free access to its content related to the coronavirus as a community service. Subscriptions starting at $5 a month help support this. In…
Awesome 3000 postponed until August
Books fill the downtown office of the Salem-Keizer Education Foundation on Dec. 17, 2019 (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing free access to its content related to the coronavirus as a community service. Subscriptions help support this. The Salem-Keizer Education Foundation’s signature event, the Awesome…
Salem young professional opens the way for women through financial advice
Brenna Baucum. (Courtesy/Brenna Baucum) When a camera crew approached Brenna Baucum, she knew what they intended before they said anything. “I know what this is,” Baucum exclaimed as a group of people filed into Bentley’s Grill, boom mic and cameras in tow. Baucum, a financial…
The lights are going out on one Salem event after another
NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing free access to its content related to the coronavirus as a community service. Subscriptions help support this. Salem organizations are canceling events altogether, looking to reschedule or haven’t decided what to do yet in the wake of a state ban on gatherings…
South Salem resident recounts experience being quarantined in China for nearly a month
Dago Benavidez and his wife in quarantine in China. (Courtesy/Dago Benavidez) During the month Dago Benavidez quarantined himself in Guilin, China, he would watch a small, white husky from the window of his fifth-floor condo. He noticed the owner’s routine as they took the dog…
Former Oregon Supreme Court Justice Paul De Muniz to be honored for service to community
Paul De Muniz will be awarded First Citizen at a banquet Saturday night. (Courtesy/Willamette University) Former Oregon Supreme Court Justice Paul De Muniz will take the top award at Saturday’s First Citizen banquet. First Citizens are nominated for improving the lives of those in the…
Get your garden going this spring with free help from Marion Polk Food Share
One of the 65 community gardens supported by Marion Polk Food Share in the greater Salem area (Courtesy/Marion Polk Food Share) If this week’s sunshine has you thinking about getting outside, Marion Polk Food Share wants to help. The organization is hosting “Celebrate the Seed,”…
Through a century-old set of keys and pipes, Rick Parks sets the mood at Salem’s Elsinore Theatre
Rick Parks sits in front of a Wurlitzer console, which represents about 2% of the entire theater pipe organ in the Elsinore Theater. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) In the early morning a few times a week, Rick Parks enters the Elsinore Theatre, sits down before a…
Chemeketa board unanimously raises tuition for fifth year in a row
The Chemeketa Community College Board of Education at a Feb. 26, 2020 meeting (Taylor Wynia/Special to Salem Reporter) The Chemeketa Community College board of education voted in favor of a tuition increase for the fifth year in a row Wednesday night. For the 2020–21 school…