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These are uneasy times in Salem.

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A 16-year-old is shot to death during the day in a city park.

A high school goes into lockdown, students cowering behind barricaded doors.

Random shootings disrupt the night peace of northeast Salem.

Meantime, the city forges ahead with cutting services. Yet it may take over private ambulance services that officials find inadequate.

And this week, teachers decide whether to tee up a strike. Such a strike would close every school in the city.

One news team is on top of all these developments: Salem Reporter.

Day after day, our local team produces exclusive reports.

These are stories you can trust. They are carefully done – factual and fair. We leave the opinions to others.

Salem Reporter is locally owned and managed. We’re not part of a hedge fund or national chain. We need people like you to do this work.

More and more people are turning to Salem Reporter for local news that matters. They are subscribing.

That’s crucial. Every single subscriber matters hugely to our small team. We depend on subscriptions almost entirely to pay professional reporters and cover public records fees and other news-gathering expenses.

But we do more than report. We do more than spotlight trouble. We help find solutions to community issues.

That’s why we hosted recent community Town Halls, including the recent one on gun violence.

We’ll soon conduct a debate between candidates for mayor, giving voters unusual access.

But our core duty is local reporting. No one keeps an eye on Salem as well as we do.

I’m asking you to join our team of subscribers.

You can get all of our news for just $10 a month. An annual subscription is an even better deal – $100 for 12 months of Salem news. Signing up HERE is easy and secure.

What’s that buy you?

You get around-the-clock access to our website – read the news when you want, where you want. You can catch the latest headlines, find out about local events, or search for stories on topics that matter to you.

You get our morning newsletter and evening newsletter, delivering the latest headlines straight to your email. Produced during the week, these share in an easy-to-read format news of the moment.

You get news produced with attention to professional standards and ethics. We are proud to share our principles with you. You can read HERE what guides our work. That’s important in this era when it’s hard to know which information sources to trust.

Our team’s unmatched coverage of the shooting at Bush’s Pasture Park demonstrates our commitment to Salem. We didn’t just report the crime. We went to a school meeting to learn the impact. Another time, we listened one evening as neighbors shared their concerns. And we took the temperature of gang activity in Salem.

Too many communities are losing their news sources. With your subscription, Salem Reporter grows and gets stronger. Please say “yes” to subscribing.

I thank you for your time and feel free to reach out to me anytime at [email protected] with ideas, questions or concerns.

–Les Zaitz, CEO and editor

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