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And now a break from Salem’s pandemic

Customers browse through the Thursday West Salem Farmer’s Market on Edgewater Street which runs from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. until mid-September. On Saturdays, the Salem Saturday Market runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 865 Marion St. N.E. with extra precautions because of COVID-19. (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)

Photographer Ron Cooper and his wife Penny moved to Salem in 1969 to take a job as photographer at the Oregon Statesman (later the Statesman Journal). Their three children, Monica, Kimberly, and Christopher, attended and graduated from Salem public schools. Cooper retired from the Statesman Journal in 2001 but, has continued his passion for photography in many ways, including as a photographer for the Salem Reporter.