Salem, Oregon News
Uncategorized Books fill the downtown office of the Salem-Keizer Education Foundation on Dec. 17, 2019 (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing free access to its content related to the coronavirus as a community service. Subscriptions help support this. The Salem-Keizer Education Foundation’s signature event, the Awesome 3000, will be postponed until[Read More…]
Uncategorized One of the 65 community gardens supported by Marion Polk Food Share in the greater Salem area (Courtesy/Marion Polk Food Share) If this week’s sunshine has you thinking about getting outside, Marion Polk Food Share wants to help. The organization is hosting “Celebrate the Seed,” a free seed share and[Read More…]
Uncategorized Mady Breitling as Lady Macbeth and Isaiah Lane as Macbeth in dress rehearsal for the West Salem High School theater production (Courtesy/Joe Gottsch) The witches’ cauldron is a five-gallon plastic bucket. Shields and axes are made in part with discarded license plates, and pieces of refuse litter the stage. Audience[Read More…]
Single grandmothers Jeanine and Julie give a testimony about the Y, with board member Vanessa Nordyke. (Courtesy/Ashley Russell) The Salem YMCA has been changing lives in Salem since 1892. The Y (YMCA) is more than a fitness center. For over 125 years they have been providing education, care, and activities for[Read More…]
Uncategorized Gabriella Smith’s new composition will debut in Salem on Friday. (Courtesy/ Gabriella Smith) Gabriella Smith likes to make recordings of the natural world. The 28-year-old composer will listen to early morning bird songs or dip a hydrophone into the water to record shrimp crackling or fish grunting. “The underwater ones[Read More…]
Uncategorized Visitors read about Salem’s Mickey Mouse Club at Willamette Heritage Center’s new “Join the Club” exhibit (Courtesy/Willamette Heritage Center) For much of the 1930s, more than 1,000 children flooded Salem’s Elsinore Theatre on Saturday afternoons to watch Mickey Mouse cartoons and act in skits. They were members of the city’s[Read More…]
Uncategorized Theo Bleckmann is performing at Willamette University Wednesday evening. (Courtesy/Willamette University) A Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist is performing at Willamette University Wednesday evening. Theo Bleckmann and pianist-composer Dan Tepfer will perform a mix of dark and political songs from a pre-World War II period as well as sections from their own[Read More…]
Animal rights activists gathered in front of the Oregon State Capitol to protest the sale of fur. (Caleb Wolf/Special to Salem Reporter) A group of animal rights activists gathered in front of the Oregon State Capitol to protest the sale of fur and the inhumane way people kill animals on[Read More…]
Uncategorized Salem Housing Authority. (Troy Brynelson/Salem Reporter) In his years of working with homeless people, Stephen Goins has explored the why of homeless thought patterns and behavior. On Thursday, Jan. 23 he’s going to share his insights during a talk titled: “The Homeless Brain” from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at[Read More…]
Uncategorized Salem’s Historic Grand. (Caleb Wolf/Special to Salem Reporter) Residents who want to learn more about the mental health crisis and participate in an audience discussion can head to Salem’s Historic Grand Tuesday evening. “Bedlam,” a documentary that tracks individual stories of mentally ill patients in Los Angeles, starts at 7[Read More…]
