Salem, Oregon News
Uncategorized Marion County’s waste disposal partner was unable to secure from 2019 legislators a lucrative deal that would deem the company a renewable energy producer and now the Brooks plant’s future is in question. Now, Covanta and the county are publicly making veiled threats that, if lawmakers don’t pass a proposal[Read More…]
Teacher Dena Archibald helps first-grade student Zander McCurry present a math problem during a summer school class at Grant Elementary School on July 16, 2019 (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Dena Archibald leaned over a first-grade student’s desk on a warm July morning at Grant Elementary School. She pointed to a grid[Read More…]
Uncategorized Thursday The Salem Library is hosting an end of summer reading party on Thursday for kids who have completed at least 10 hours of reading. The afternoon will be filled with games, food and guest appearances from Caesar The No Drama Llama and Los Colores de America Latino music group.[Read More…]
Uncategorized The site of the proposed Kuebler Gateway Shopping Center in South Salem. (Troy Brynelson/Salem Reporter) A sprawling shopping center on Kuebler Boulevard, anchored by a Costco Wholesale, will likely go back before Salem City Council. The State Land Use Board of Appeals on Wednesday remanded the council’s decision from December,[Read More…]
A former grant writer at Salem Housing Authority called out the agency in her resignation letter, calling it “very toxic,” at a time when the agency’s flagship homeless assistance program is in flux. Pamala Garrick wrote that the agency hired “unqualified” managers and that her supervisors lied to her in[Read More…]
A first-ever survey of Oregon public bodies sheds light on how well government of all sizes complies with public records law. The results are a mixed bag, said Ginger McCall, the state’s public records advocate. The survey was sent to 132 bodies, a mix of state agencies, counties, cities, school[Read More…]
Chad Barkes (Courtesy/Salem-Keizer School District) One week after former Sprague High School principal Craig Swanson announced his departure, assistant principal Chad Barkes has stepped up to take the job. Barkes, who has been an assistant principal at Sprague since 2015, said he applied after staff in the building reached out[Read More…]
SALEM — Newport Mayor Dean Sawyer was driving back from a conference of mayors in Medford when he got the call. Rep. David Gomberg, D-Central Coast, had bad news. The governor wanted to veto $4 million in state money to help replace two critical dams in Newport, a coastal city[Read More…]
The Polk County Courthouse. (Courtesy of Jolene Guzman/Polk County Itemizer-Observer) The Polk County Commission will review a “memorandum of agreement” with several government bodies in the area to create a development council for health services in Polk and Marion counties at its weekly meeting Wednesday. The agreement is between Polk[Read More…]
Uncategorized Marion County commissioners on Wednesday will consider renewing its funding for a program that sends mental health professionals right to people in the middle of a crisis. Since 2014, a mental health professional has paired with a Sheriff’s Office deputy to respond to 9-1-1 calls involving mental health crises, said[Read More…]
