Local corgi lover tapped to judge Westminster Dog Show
Good evening, Salem.
A group of business and nonprofit executives tasked with reviewing Salem's budget had its first meeting at the Salem Civic Center on Wednesday. Over a marathon two-week series of meetings, they'll suggest ways to save as the city prepares to make nearly $14 million in cuts.
The committee appointed Brian Moore, the CEO of Neighborly Ventures, as its chair, and Ernesto Toskovic, a banker and the senior vice president at KeyBank in Salem, as vice chair.
The first meeting helped define the group’s scope which will focus on examining the budget and providing suggestions for efficiencies, enhancements and adjustments to the city’s finances. We'll have a fuller report tomorrow and will keep you posted on their work, along with the budget itself and the city's likely effort to take a property tax levy to voters in May.
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Marilyn Van Vleit has spent most of her life breeding, competing or judging corgis. Over a year ago, she was invited to be one of the judges at this year’s…
Tuesday marked the start of the criminal trial of truck driver Lincoln Smith, who in May 2023 struck and killed seven farmworkers on Interstate 5 in one of the deadliest…
Salem high school students studying construction have a side hustle, crafting custom benches, planters, dog houses and more through the a new Build Club.
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