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Salem is losing another legacy business.
As Reporter Abbey McDonald shares, Cooke Stationery is closing.
This was a place you could go and actually get help with questions on supplies and equipment.
This place has that feel of a local business, where the staff remembers the names of those who come in regularly. And it’s the kind of business you’re likely to see the same face behind the counter or out on the floor from one week to the next, one month to the next.
This news comes just days after Withnell Dodge closed following decades in Salem.
Such firms are not just suppliers or employers. They are key to making a community livable. Any engaged business willingly gives back, whether it’s by donations, by sponsoring a Little League team, or pitching in at an event.
So, look around the community. Is there a business you know is owned by a local family? Have you dropped in lately? None of them is looking for charity. They just want a chance go give good service – and learn your name.
–Les Zaitz, editor and CEO
In other developments, two local teacher unions recently wrote to the Salem-Keizer School Board and district leaders, urging them to respond to frequent violent attacks by students at school.
The unions surveyed over 1,200 Salem-Keizer School District employees about harm at the hands of students.
The letter comes nearly four years after the state Occupational Safety and Health Administration found the district failed to report or investigate staff injuries caused in 2019 by students at Mary Eyre Elementary School. We’ll bring you a story Monday on what the survey showed.
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