Meet CC: Media’s new community news director, Meghan Jonas, who hopes to train more local journalists in Salem.
COMMUNITY
Salem neighborhood aims to grow community with new accessible garden
Pringle Creek was created to focus on sustainability and supporting a multigenerational community. A new accessible garden is now part of it.
COLUMN: The ghosts of the Elsinore
Craig Smith of the Willamette Valley Genealogical Society dives into some spooky history surrounding one of Salem’s historic theaters.
Yum Yum Teriyaki gives free meals for kids this Halloween
The Salem restaurant’s owner decided to give back, and help create happy memories like he had as a kid around Halloween.
Salem Peace Lecture to discuss nuclear weapons abolition
This year’s Salem Peace Lecture will feature an expert in nuclear weapons abolition and celebrate PCUN, Oregon’s farm worker union.
Goat yoga brings stretches and smiles to Salem
Practice your downward facing dog while surrounded by friendly goats on a hobby farm in west Salem.
As Salem food pantry demand soars, a west Salem pop-up tries to fill the gap
Following the closure of a decades-old pantry in the Edgewater district, leaders at Northwest Human Services are hosting a weekly food distribution for Marion Polk Food Share in the parking lot of their dental clinic.
City recognizes Salem volunteers for work
The 34 Salemites honored this year included students using fungi to break down plastic, storm drain painters and flag designers.
New chapel, garden spaces at Salem Hospital provide more space for waiting families
The new areas, added during a larger renovation of the hospital campus, are intended to make waiting with loved ones easier in the busiest emergency room on the West Coast.
LOCAL HISTORY: A Salem teacher’s humanitarian mission to Siberia
Salem historic preservation officer Kimberli Fitzgerald recounts how Salemite Nell Sykes joined a national Red Cross humanitarian expedition intended to sway the outcome of the Russian Revolution following the First World War.
