A musician's recovery, and the state of local schools
Good evening, Salem.
Salem-Keizer School District leaders are hosting a first-ever "State of the District" event starting at 6 p.m. at North Salem High School.
It comes as the school district faces substantial uncertainty in both policy and funding amid a dramatic reshuffling of the federal government. We have more on that in our recap of last week's school board meeting below.
Tomorrow, we'll bring you a deeper report on the district event.
We're also keeping an eye on Chemeketa Community College, where board directors on Wednesday will decide whether to ask voters to renew a property tax measure to fund campus improvements. Supporters of a city of Salem tax levy are worried putting both measures before voters at the same time could doom them both.
Finally, our apologies for a typo in yesterday's email in the section about Gregg Peterson's Salem First Citizen award. The organization he runs is the Be-BLAC Foundation.
Here's some of today's news. Catch all of our reports anytime on our website.
Mark Parrish is a local musician who started playing in bands at a young age along the West Coast, where he first started using heroin and meth. Five years sober,…
Superintendent Andrea Castañeda briefly addressed uncertainty over federal schools funding in a Feb. 11 meeting, but said the district remains on track for a balanced budget this year.
West Salem High School recently earned a national recognition banner from the Special Olympics for its Unified program. The school celebrated with an assembly.
Salem police said Mark Coutis got into a standoff with officers for almost two hours on Friday, Feb. 14, before surrendered and was arrested on accusations of stalking, menacing and…
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