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Chinese Qingming festival Saturday celebrates arrival of spring, honors the dead
On Saturday, April 4, the community is invited to Salem Pioneer Cemetery to experience the sights and sounds of the traditional Chinese Qingming festival. The festival was first celebrated in Salem by the city’s Chinese community in the 1800s.
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Martial arts schools celebrate 30 years in Salem
Sandra Davis earned her first black belt in shao-lin kempo karate in downtown Salem in 1998. Three decades later and just across the Willamette River, she and her daughter are training students in the martial art in West Salem.
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6 things to do in Salem this Easter: Egg hunts, vendor market, Easter Bunny photos
Easter events in Salem this week include egg hunts at the Salem Center, Deepwood Museum, Salem’s Riverfront Carousel and more. Some hunts will also have photos with the Easter Bunny, a bounce house and face painting.
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5 exhibits to see at Salem’s galleries, museums in April
This month, a new paper arts fair will debut in downtown Salem. Exhibits at local galleries will share work by young artists and local colored pencil experts.
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Festival atmosphere prevails as Salem protesters stand against Trump
Local demonstrators, many carrying clever and pointed signs, participated in Salem's No Kings demonstration on Saturday, March 28. The peaceful event was matched by similar events in communities all across Oregon and the country.
Updates on apartment developments, Mill Creek restoration, Dome Building
In a monthly feature, Salem Reporter is returning to past stories to report the latest.
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COLUMN: Meet Salem’s heron family
Columnist and bird expert Harry Fuller walks us through local members of the heron family, from the famous great blues to the bitterns that make a bullfrog-like swallowing call.
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5 things to do in Salem this week: Nighttime cherry blossoms, Pentacle Theatre musical, Salem Center egg hunt
Events in Salem this week include the annual nighttime viewing of the Oregon Capitol cherry blossoms, showings of Pentacle Theatre’s Something Rotten! musical and an Easter egg hunt and market at the Salem Center.
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Kalapuya weaver demonstrates traditional basketry in Salem talk
Stephanie Craig said Indigenous basket-weaving is a form of ecological knowledge in addition to artistry, during a recent standing-room-only talk at the Salem Public Library.
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