Category Events
Marion County Fair gearing up for (mostly) normal year
Equestrians with Marion County 4-H compete at the Oregon State Fairgrounds on Tuesday, July 6, 2021, ahead of the county fair. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Fair coordinators have to have a bit more than a barn to put on a show. About 30 days after the…
PHOTOS: Make Music Day Salem marks a return to normalcy and the start of summer
RiverCity Rebels perform at the Wooly Bully Stage at the Willamette Heritage Center during Make Music Day in Salem. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) It’s been a rare sight to see huddles of people gathered maskless since the pandemic upended lives last spring. But on Monday, the…
Salem’s Awesome 3000 race won’t happen this summer, but organizers have their sights on a 2022 return
LaTishia Crosen ran her first Awesome 3000 in 1987, just a few years after the annual Salem fun run began. Her daughter Cailinn, 16, has raced every year since 2010, including in 2020 when the event was held virtually. “I told her about how me…
Weekend race helps bolster funding for local soccer club
Runners head north on Howell Prairie Road during the Capitol FC half marathon on Sunday, June 6, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Runners competing in Capital Futbol Club’s half marathon, 10k or 5k Sunday were cheered on by soccer players. The money raised at the races…
On cross-country totem pole journey, carvers pay respect to children buried at Chemawa Cemetery
Freddie Lane, right, a citizen of the Lummi Nation and tour manager for the Red Road to DC journey, bows his head in prayer during a ceremony paying respects to children buried at Chemawa Cemetery on Friday, May 14, 2021 (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) The markers…
PHOTOS: Car parade aims to raise awareness about child abuse
Participants in a child abuse prevention car parade drive past the Oregon State Capitol on April 2, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Cars decked in blue paraded past the Capitol Friday morning past a tree adorned in blue ribbons to raise awareness about child abuse in…
Austrian music, absurdist poetry coming to Salem as Oregon Symphony plans October return
The Oregon Symphony performs at Smith Auditorium in Salem in November 2019 (Courtesy/Danielle Peterson, Oregon Symphony) Peter Frajola learned to play the violin as a child in Salem under the direction of his parents, both musicians. This fall, he’s eager to return to Willamette University’s…
With an uncertain reopening, Salem’s events magazine ponders its future
Copies of Press Play Salem, which hasn’t printed in more than a year because of event cancelations. (Courtesy/ Carlee Wright) It’s been more than one year since issues of Press Play Salem have dotted coffee shops and bars offering residents a one-stop source for concerts,…
Salem art gallery hosts erotic art for the month of February
“Choke” by Alycia Helbling is one of the pieces on display at Salem on the Edge for an erotic art exhibit in February 2021. (Courtesy/ Melanie Weston) When Melanie Weston opened her art gallery Salem on the Edge in downtown Salem last year, she already…