Your Monday evening update on Salem news

Good evening, Salem.
September is just around the corner, and Salem Reporter is putting together a guide of school backpack and supply drives.
Whether you’re collecting donations or giving them away, we’d like to include it. Send an email to Managing Editor Rachel Alexander, [email protected] by the end of the day Thursday, Aug. 1.
For donations, please include what’s needed, where it can be dropped off, dates and times.
For giveaways, please include when, where and how people can pick them up. Include who’s eligible, and any limits such as first-come, first-served.
Here’s some of today’s news. Find all our coverage anytime on our website.
After around six months at its new location, Salem’s Recovery Outreach Community Center has more than doubled the number of people walking through its doors. ROCC mixes fun and community…
Athletes and spectators filled Salem for the 25th year of Hoopla.
Nathan Soltz will be a delegate to the Democratic National Convention for the third time and said the party’s been reinvigorated following President Joe Biden’s decision to drop out of…
Gov. Tina Kotek’s office declined to answer multiple questions about the group she created to improve poor conditions at the state’s only women’s prison.
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