Category Community
COLUMN: How to get involved in Salem’s emergency preparedness
In a new column, Mark Wardell, leader of West Salem's Community Emergency Response Team, shares tips for preparedness and information about local training.
PHOTOS: Make Music Day fills Salem with sound
Bands took to makeshift stages on street corners, in gardens and outside restaurants Friday across Salem.
Gardens, alleys and Salem streets fill with songs for Make Music Day
Performances for the annual June 21 celebration of music kicked off across Salem Friday morning with rock ‘n’ roll, ukulele and visitors who traveled to enjoy the scene.
Ukrainian culture to take center stage at World Beat
Inna Kovtun fled war in her native Ukraine with a collection of folk songs she’s carefully preserved. She’s among the center stage performers at this year’s World Beat Festival, June 28-30 in Riverfront Park.
COLUMN: It’s family season for birds around Salem
Around Salem and across North America, you can spot nestlings, fledglings and juvenile birds learning the ropes of finding food, columnist and local birder Harry Fuller writes.
Salem punks expand from yearly music festival into “epic” outreach service for homeless youth
Salem nonprofit Punx With Purpose, known for its annual Punx in the Park festival, has gone mobile. At monthly pop-up events, teens and young adults can get clothes, connect with housing and build community.
On Juneteenth, Salem remembers history, celebrates freedom
Salemites participated in history walks, talked about the legacy of slavery, shared resources and donated blood in honor of Juneteenth.
Salem events from June 20-27: Make Music Day, cats and tacos, Buddhist wisdom
Summer weather is here and Salem has plenty to offer, with a performance by Tibetan monks, Make Music Day and junior roller derby playoffs over the next week.
Growing therapy program for struggling Salem families benefits from training on play, trauma
Therapists with Family Building Blocks said they’re better able to help parents and children connect and process trauma after training paid for by a donation from Country Financial.