Salem, Oregon News
Uncategorized Dentist Brian Westover and dental assistant Steven Sadaya care for a Scott Elementary School student in the Tooth Taxi. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Dentist Brian Westover leaned over a reclined chair. “I’m just gonna make your tooth go to sleep, buddy,” he explained to his young patient, a second-grade student at[Read More…]
SALEM — Oregon lawmakers are considering putting a stop to license suspensions for drivers who don’t pay fines for certain traffic tickets. Every year, thousands of Oregon drivers get tickets for non-criminal traffic offenses. Suspending licenses for unpaid fines unfairly punishes poor people who can’t afford the full weight of[Read More…]
Uncategorized The West Salem High School Class of 2019 celebrates during graduation on June 6, 2019. (Courtesy/Salem-Keizer School District) This week, about 2,750 Salem-Keizer students donned caps and gowns and walked across the stage after earning a diploma or GED. The Class of 2019 has collectively earned more than $33.5 million in[Read More…]
SALEM — These bills might not make headlines, but they may make a difference to Oregonians all the same. Each of these bills passed their last hurdle this week and now head next to Gov. Kate Brown for her signature. TOW TIME: Senate Bill 396 slashes the amount of time[Read More…]
Uncategorized Visitors look at the CSI Salem exhibit during a member’s opening on June 6 (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) Two years ago, Sharon Borgford brought Willamette Heritage Center curator Kylie Pine a box of her grandfather’s things. It contained what would be the starting point for the CSI Salem exhibit, which opened[Read More…]
SALEM — Last week, 31 Democrats voted to cut into benefits promised to public employees in what was likely their toughest vote of the 2019 legislative session, if not their career. It prompted 17 to file public explanations for why they voted. In a political environment where public employee unions[Read More…]
Dr. Pritam Rohila and Bahdur Singh light a candle to open ceremonies on Wednesday. (Mary Louise VanNatta/Special to Salem Reporter) A red and gold dragon made its way down Liberty Street. No reason for alarm. It was just Zach Swanson and a team of local children with the World Beat[Read More…]
SALEM — A proposal to put Oregon on year-round Daylight Saving Time passed the House Thursday, and now the only hurdles to the change are outside the state. Senate Bill 320, which passed 37-20, now goes to Gov. Kate Brown. But the shift away from twice-yearly changing of the clocks[Read More…]
Uncategorized This weekly list is a new way we’re providing readers with information about events going on in the region. Feel free to reach out with feedback or event suggestions. Friday A new exhibit at the Willamette Heritage Center will showcase crime fighting history in the state’s capital and explain how[Read More…]
Uncategorized Artist and animator Melody Mendez shows off her sketchbook in the McKay High School photography room. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) This profile is part of a series on Class of 2019 high school graduates. Salem Reporter asked high schools in Salem and Keizer to select an outstanding graduate – someone who[Read More…]
