Tag MARION COUNTY GOVERNMENT
Marion County has federal funding on standby for infrastructure improvements, homeless services
County officials have until 2026 to spend nearly $68 million in federal aid and are awaiting requests for reimbursement when construction and other projects are completed.
Incumbent Cameron, challenger Dennis vie for Marion County commissioner seat
Kevin Cammeron in his bid for re-election seeks to continue the work he started as a commissioner. His opponent, Andrew Dennis, says his experience as a state housing policy analyst makes him better equipped to oversee the county’s budget.
AGENDA: Solid Waste Management Advisory Council to discuss upcoming legislative session
A Covanta Marion worker operates the claw that hoists trash into the incinerator.(Troy Brynelson/Salem Reporter) The Marion County Solid Waste Management Advisory Council will meet Tuesday, Jan. 28 to go over any legislation in the upcoming short session that might impact the county’s solid waste…
Marion County prepares a Plan B for handling local garbage
A Covanta Marion worker operates the claw that hoists trash into the incinerator. (Troy Brynelson/Salem Reporter) Garbage truck after garbage truck wheels into a nondescript industrial area in Brooks every day, bringing heaps of trash to the Covanta Marion waste incinerator. Last year, trucks hauled…
AGENDA: Marion County to discuss church’s plan to turn land into housing
The Marion County’s Courthouse Square Building in downtown Salem. (Caleb Wolf/Special to Salem Reporter) Whether a piece of church-owned property in the Four Corners neighborhood can become housing will be the subject of a public hearing Wednesday. Christ the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church wants to…
Marion County to go to court over inmate’s lost eye
Marion County Courthouse (File/Salem Reporter) After inmate Billy Gostevskyh asked for days for help for pain in his already-damaged right eye, the Marion County Jail’s doctor advised him to see an ophthalmologist as soon as possible. The next day, jail employees sent him to a…
Marion County leaders sidestep complaint over transgender discrimination
Offices for Willamette Valley Community Health, where Behavioral Care Network holds its meetings. Both entities oversee healthcare for low-income residents in Marion and Polk counties. (Jessica Floum/The Lund Report) A political game of chicken has hit a regional healthcare bureaucracy that’s leaving the transgender community…
Marion County gives trash burner another year to win state tax credits
Covanta Marion, a trash incinerator in Brooks, burns roughly 170,000 tons of garbage every year. (Troy Brynelson/Salem Reporter) Local garbage will be shipped to Brooks another year under a deal approved by Marion County commissioners that will avoid a shutdown and gives the plant operator…
Marion County, Covanta continue seeking ‘renewable’ status amid threats to close plant
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…