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Oregon needs more financial aid for nursing students and more educators, experts say
Nurses staff a mobile vaccine clinic in Salem (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) More scholarship money and perhaps tax credits would help stem Oregon’s nursing shortage, according to nursing students and deans of Oregon nursing schools. In an one-hour online discussion on Wednesday, they told U.S. Rep.…
AGENDA: Salem City Council meets Monday to consider raising deputy chief pay, proposed Meyer Farm subdivision
Salem City Council Chambers. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) The Salem City Council meets Monday evening to consider raising pay for the Salem Police Department’s deputy chief by 8%. They’ll also consider a final order affirming a scaled back development plan to build over 100 single family…
VOTE 2022: Q&A with ward 6 candidates Julie Hoy, Stacey Vieyra-Braendle
Stacey Vieyra-Braendle, left, and Julie Hoy, are running to represent east Salem, Ward 6, on the city council (Campaign photos) On May 17, Salem voters will select four city councilors and the city’s next mayor. Council candidates are running in ward 2, 4, 6 and…
Colin Mochrie coming to Elsinore with hynosis-improv act “Hyprov”
Hypnotist Asad Mecci and improviser Colin Mochrie will take the stage at the Elsinore Theatre April 28 for their “Hyprov” comedy show. (Courtesy photo) Colin Mochrie has been racking up marriage proposals. The Canadian improviser, best known for his years on “Whose Line Is It…
Salem weekly Covid report for April 22: Regional hospitalizations, cases rising
Empty beds in the hallway of the emergency room at Salem Hospital (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Covid cases are ticking up again in Oregon both statewide and in the Salem area. Hospitalizations remain low locally and regionally, but have increased from a low point several weeks…
New Word of Mouth owners plan to preserve menu
Longtime Word of Mouth employees Nicole Murphy, left, and Mychal Arredondo bought the restaurant in April and are planning a May reopening. (Courtesy/Word of Mouth) When Mychal Arredondo started work as a host at Salem’s Word of Mouth, he wasn’t expecting to meet his fiancée.…
Gender-bending “Twelfth Night” adaptation opening Friday at Pentacle dives into identity
The final dress rehearsal for “Twelfth Night,” scheduled to run Friday through May 14 at the Pentacle Theatre. (Courtesy/Vicki Woods) Isaac Joyce-Shaw was 11 years old when he performed in his first show at Salem’s Pentacle Theatre. Joyce-Shaw, 27, is now one day out from…
Biden drops into Portland, reels off benefits of infrastructure money for Oregon
President Joe Biden speaks to a small crowd of Oregon officials, union workers and reporters in Portland on Thursday, April 21. (Julia Shumway/Oregon Capital Chronicle) PORTLAND— New federal infrastructure spending will create millions of high-paying jobs in Oregon and across the country and modernize infrastructure,…
City will revise skate park design plans after early feedback
Two proposed design options for the Geer Park Skate Park (City of Salem) Designers are reworking a proposal for a skate park at Geer Park after gathering public feedback on two early designs. Salem’s Parks Department is planning to construct a skate park in the…