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Deteriorating headstones at a Salem pioneer cemetery will get a new life thanks to a state grant.

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The Lee Mission Cemetery received a $5,000 grant from a historic cemetery grant program through the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, the agency announced Tuesday.

The money will fund the repair and leveling of 25 stones.

“The still-active cemetery is the final resting place of a sizable concentration of missionaries, clergymen, educators, and lay leaders of the Methodist Episcopal Church on the West Coast,” according to the Oregon Encyclopedia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

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Salem resident named Ms. Wheelchair Oregon

Anne Giffin spent much of her life homeless in Salem. She’s now sober, housed, a peer support specialist and the latest woman to be crowned Ms. Wheelchair Oregon.

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Teen committed to Oregon Youth Authority for fatal 2023 stabbing at Salem Center Mall

A Salem boy, 16, admitted in juvenile court to first-degree assault as part of settlement in the case of a stabbing in Salem Center Mall that left a 20-year-old man…

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Weapons detector pilot begins Wednesday at South

South Salem High School is piloting two weapon detector systems through the end of the school year as part of a district effort to decide if they should be installed…

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State hospital suspends visits after patient dies of suspected fentanyl overdose

AROUND OREGON: The Oregon State Police are investigating a death at the state hospital in Salem tied to a possible fentanyl overdose. Visits to patients have been suspended.

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Salem resident named Ms. Wheelchair Oregon

Teen committed to Oregon Youth Authority for fatal 2023 stabbing at Salem Center Mall

Weapons detector pilot begins Wednesday at South

State hospital suspends visits after patient dies of suspected fentanyl overdose

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