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Friday evening, galleries in downtown Salem will showcase new paintings and sculptures alongside live music. The event, called Salem Art Walk, happens on the first Friday of each month, from 5-8 p.m.

Newly unveiled exhibitions include miniature paintings at Elsinore Framing & Fine Art Gallery, and eight large-scale portraits of women activists at Salem on the Edge.

For more details, and to see what else showing this month, check out our gallery and museum roundup here.

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Roughly 300 protesters gathered along Center Street in front of the State Capitol building to protest the Trump administration ahead of President Donald Trump’s address to Congress Tuesday night. Many…

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A second-floor collective of salon and beauty businesses will open April 1, with a new French bistro slated for June.

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Leonel Covarrubias Hernandez, 48 was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison Monday after pleading guilty to possessing and intending to distribute fentanyl in November. Police arrested Covarrubias in 2022…

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Gov. Tina Kotek has set a goal of building 36,000 new homes a year – nearly double the average number of homes built in Oregon in recent years.

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Supporters of a bill to provide services and victim outreach to address missing and murdered Indigenous women say it’s an important step that moves beyond studying the problem and allocates…

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