Ken Houghton, outreach coordinator for the ARCHES Project, shows a prospective volunteer around a new mobile shower unit at a July 17, 2019 training. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Free showers will soon be available to homeless people in the greater Salem area after more than a year of effort by a[Read More…]
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AGENDA: Chemeketa board to review equity efforts, approve grants and donations
Chemeketa Community College board members will review the college’s equity efforts in staffing at a meeting next week. A scorecard shows the college’s student body has about the same percentage of Latino students as the area Chemeketa serves, but staff and faculty remain mostly white, especially in full-time roles. The[Read More…]
Keizer Fire Department gets eight-legged visitors
Two women brought four scorpions to the Keizer Fire Department Wednesday. (courtesy Keizer Fire Department) The Keizer Fire Station got some surprise visitors of the arachnid variety on Wednesday. Two moms drove nearly two miles from Keizer Rapids Park to the fire station with an open, plastic Red Vines container[Read More…]
Telemedicine connects rural Oregonians to abortion care
SALEM — Telemedicine has provided a new avenue for abortion access for Oregonians, utilized by about 50 patients in its first year. Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette is part of a trial by Gynuity Health Projects that is allowing some patients in Oregon, Washington and several other states to obtain abortion[Read More…]
North Salem students get on track to graduate in summer school
Jon Duff, left, discusses his biology grade with North Salem science teacher Daniel Ortiz at summer school (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) When Briana Ender failed English her freshman year of high school, delayed making up the class so she wouldn’t have to tell her father, who never finished high school. Ender,[Read More…]
80-year-old man Salem arrested for child sex abuse
(Courtesy Oregon State Police) This article was updated at 5:20 p.m. with more information. Oregon State Police arrested an 80-year-old Salem man Monday after he allegedly sexually abused a child in early June. James Allen Moore was charged with first-degree sexual abuse and lodged in the Deschutes County Jail, according[Read More…]
CHECK OUT: A new (to you) book, jousting and LOTS of art
(Illustration by Anna CK Smith/Special to Salem Reporter) Friday Need a good read? The YMCA is hosting its annual used book sale this weekend. The event runs from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. 685 Court St. N.E.[Read More…]
Landlords say they’re taking a risk renting to Salem’s homeless
Cody Freshour stands outside his firm, Ivalor LLC. Freshour rents 10 units to people who would be homeless without the city of Salem-backed program. (Troy Brynelson/Salem Reporter) When it comes to renting homes to the homeless, Cody Freshour says the perception is worse than reality. Freshour is one of 21[Read More…]
Marty Heyen, Jesse Lippold, to lead school board
Marty Heyen, left, and Jesse Lippold, right, take new seats during a Salem-Keizer School Board meeting after being unanimously elected chair and vice chair for the 2019-20 school year. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) A northeast Salem school board director who won re-election in May will lead a relatively inexperienced school board[Read More…]
From mushrooms to pension reform: Here’s what could be on your 2020 ballot
SALEM — Roughly 30 measures are vying for a spot on your ballot in 2020. Some are measures that state lawmakers voted to refer to Oregonians. Others have been proposed by citizens to reconsider or amend state laws. Each, though, raises a hot-button issue. They range from taxes to tolling[Read More…]