Category COMMUNITY
LISTEN IN: Salem is dressing up neighborhoods with murals
Managing Editor Rachel Alexander talks planned street murals, pay raises for Salem educators, and a collection of historic Oregon travel photos from the 1930s.
PHOTOS: Bands take the stage for Salem’s first Capitol Jam
The day-long music festival Saturday drew a few hundreds people to Riverfront Park and served as an unofficial opening for the amphitheater stage.
Teen farmers serve up prescription vegetables to Salemites in need
An urban farm on the Chemeketa Community College campus gives high schoolers a summer of experience in agriculture, and supplies weekly boxes of fresh, organic produce to clients at local low-income clinics with diseases like diabetes and high blood pressure.
Broadway heads to Salem for one-day show
A Sunday evening performance at the Grand Theatre caps off a week of Salem students working with Broadway professionals.
Trio hopes to prove Salem isn’t “So Lame” with new record store
After Ranch Records closed its doors in 2020, a trio of local music lovers figured they needed to take matters into their own hands if they wanted a better music scene in Salem.
Help get books to east Salem kids through Rotary drive
Until Sept. 23, you can buy children's books at the Book Bin to be placed in 11 free libraries serving kids in east Salem, who live far from the city's branch libraries.
Federal grants could help get dozens of Salemites off the streets
Applications are due Aug. 31 for a roughly $1.1 million federal grant intended to help connect the most vulnerable homeless residents in Marion and Polk counties with stable housing and services.
COLUMN: What to know about switching from Obamacare to Medicare at 65
Jim Sellers, former Oregon journalist and state agency employee, writes a regular column to help thousands in Salem deal with the confusing world of Medicare and federal benefits. He's available to answer your questions.
A “mad scientist garage” for makers opens in Salem
Spark Studio Salem recently secured a 1300 square foot industrial space in a former brewery, and aims to turn it into a community hub for tinkerers, artists, engineers and inventors of all stripes.