Salem, Oregon News
Uncategorized The sign at The Arches Project, where a sobering center and an expanded day center are proposed. With news Friday the federal government will go back to work, the proposals could be closer to reality. (Anthony McGuire/Special to Salem Reporter) Count the proposed sobering center in downtown Salem among the[Read More…]
Uncategorized The lobby of Salem City Hall. Salem City Council will meet 6:30 p.m. Jan. 28. (Salem Reporter files) Salem City Council’s second meeting of the year will revisit a pair of issues that have drawn high community interest, appoint a new member to the city’s planning commission and learn about[Read More…]
(Jessica Floum/The Lund Report) The major Medicaid insurer in the Willamette Valley will not apply for a piece of the state’s largest procurement in history — the next contract to cover Oregon’s more than 1 million low-income Medicaid patients. Willamette Valley Community Health decided in its first public board meeting[Read More…]
Sen. Lew Frederick talks with Portland students during a tour of the state by the Joint Committee on School Success. (Pamplin file) A small group of legislators spent a year compiling their wish list of improvements to Oregon’s failing education system. Now they have five months to whittle it down[Read More…]
David New, a 2018 graduate from North Salem High School, speaks about how he earned a diploma. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) David New wasn’t sure how far behind he was in school. At the start of his senior year at North Salem High School in 2017, he assumed he was so[Read More…]
Uncategorized North Salem High School saw significant gains in 2018 graduation rates. (Salem Reporter files) Graduation rates are up at every high school in Salem-Keizer, according to state data released Thursday. Those gains mirror increases across Oregon, where the percentage of students completing high school in four years grew to 78.7[Read More…]
The Oregon Department of Transportation will use new pilot programs to increase worker safety during its summer repaving project on Interstate 5. (Oregon Department of Transportation Flickr) The Oregon Department of Transportation has received more money to repave a 12.5-mile stretch of Interstate 5 between Salem and Woodburn after the[Read More…]
Rosa Rivera, counselor at North Salem High School, talks to a student during an advisory period. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) North Salem High School counselor Rosa Rivera was all business as she addressed the seniors trickling in to the school’s upstairs auditorium. “Do you have your schedule?” she asked, checking each[Read More…]
(Photo by Caleb Wolf/Special to Salem Reporter) SALEM — Oregon’s public employees typically pay less for health insurance than their peers in neighboring states, a new study finds. The study by the actuarial firm Milliman was commissioned by The Oregon Business Council, an association of business leaders, as part of[Read More…]
Uncategorized Lobby of Salem City Hall. (Salem Reporter files) Updated 3:30 p.m. with more information about a proposed hub of electric vehicle chargers and the consideration of more bond measures. Delivering the annual State of the City Address on Wednesday, Mayor Chuck Bennett visited a handful of major issues in Salem[Read More…]
