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Ballots were mailed out to Marion County voters starting today. We’ll be wrapping up our pieces on school board and city council candidates this week, along with getting out more reporting on Salem’s budget issues and its tax levy proposal.

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Superintendent Andrea Castañeda and leaders of six other large Oregon school districts released a video Wednesday saying actual and proposed federal cuts to preschool programs, food banks and school funding…

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Two South Salem High School graduates, Angelo Arredondo Baca and Jennifer Parker, are vying for the Zone 3 seat on the school board.

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Salem police have provided few details about a Tuesday afternoon shooting in the area of Northwest Elm Street and Northwest Kingwood Avenue. A 16-year-old boy accused of pulling the trigger…

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Jason Kiser, 38, is accused of setting off explosives on three separate days at a home in the 5700 block of Southeast Woodside Drive. Salem police said Kiser and the…

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