Local moms promote safe gun storage to protect kids
Good evening, Salem.
The Salem Poetry Festival returns tomorrow for the first time since before the pandemic. Poets from Salem, Portland, Eugene and beyond will come for a series of free readings and workshops.
The grassroots event is in partnership with Willamette University's Hallie Ford Ford Literary Series and Dwell Press and the Salem Art Association. Events will be at the university, the Bush Barn Art Center and at IKE Box Café.
The festival starts Thursday evening, Feb. 27, and goes until Saturday evening, March 1. See the full lineup in the image below, and see the festival's Facebook page for more information.
The schedule of events for the 2025 Salem Poetry Festival, which includes readings and workshops. (Courtesy/ Salem Poetry Festival)
Here's some of today's news. Catch all of our reports anytime on our website.
Two local moms lead Salem’s chapter of BeSmart, a gun safety campaign that educates parents about safe firearm storage and provides free resources to keep guns away from kids.
Salem Reporter took a historic look at the budget for two of the city’s most expensive departments, police and fire. The agencies’ staffing hasn’t kept up with rising costs, and…
Oregon lawmakers expect to have about $38.2 billion to spend in the state’s next two-year budget. That’s $350 million more than they expected at the last forecast in November.
Nearly four months after 26-year-old Jada Thompson was discovered dead on a rural road southeast of Salem, police arrested a woman they suspect killed her in an act of domestic…
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