Jahazz Octave, left, and Sydney Pickett, right, try and get a tree out of its pot during a planting at Englewood Park Monday. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) A group of volunteers grabbed shovels and got to work Monday, planting more than 200 native trees and shrubs in northeast Salem’s Englewood Park[Read More…]

Volunteers will plant more than 200 trees and shrubs in Englewood Park on Monday. (Courtesy/ Northeast Neighbors) After years of removing invasive species, volunteers are about to give Englewood Park some new life. On Martin Luther King Jr. Day Monday, a group of volunteers will plant more than 200 native trees[Read More…]

Beyond Limits Aerial Dance formed in Salem last year. (Courtesy/ Beyond Limits Aerial Dance) On a stormy Wednesday evening, a group of dancers does crunches in a shop on the Willamette University campus. They’re conditioning to perform dance routines in which they’ll wrap their legs around steel circles or cubes[Read More…]

McKay High School’s theater students will perform 80s rock songs during “Rock of Ages,” which opens Friday. (Courtesy/ Tiffany Carstensen) Relive the glory days of glam rock as the teens at McKay High School perform “Rock of Ages.” The tunes of Poison, Styx and Pat Benatar will fill the air[Read More…]

John Oberdorf looks at a selfie David Wilson took with Oberdorf’s painting on his phone. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) When John Oberdorf talks about his oil paintings, he says he’s asking questions through his work. Questions about memory, archeology and the human species. His latest exhibit titled: “ArcheoSpaces,” is on display[Read More…]

A 3D design student paints the backdrop ahead of a CTEC fashion show Thursday. (Courtesy/ Sina Zimmerman) Cupcakes. Secret agents. A drone half-time show. All that and more will be on display when students from Salem-Keizer’s Career Technical Education Center hit the runway Thursday night for the CTEC Extravaganza. Titled[Read More…]

The Salem Poetry Project meets at IKE Box every Thursday night. (Courtesy/Salem Poetry Project) Every Thursday a group of poets gather at IKE Box, listening to a featured reader followed by an open mic that Marc Janssen jokingly calls “infamous.” Janssen started the Salem Poetry Project four years ago to[Read More…]

Oregon white oak. (Courtesy/Wikimedia Commons) Wallace Marine Park is about to get a little greener. On Saturday, Jan. 11 Friends of Trees, a Portland nonprofit, is hosting a tree planting from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The group will be planting 50 trees of various species at the north end[Read More…]

Carla Brauer at the 2019 TEDx Salem event. (Courtesy/TEDxSalem) Eight years ago, Carlee Wright and Brian Hart were texting each other about Candy Chang’s TED Talk “Before I die I want to…” In it, Chang talks about a wall she created for people to share their hopes and dreams. The[Read More…]

“Racing to Change – Oregon’s Civil Rights Years Exhibit” is on display at the Oregon State Capitol until Jan 28. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) In 1967, the public was invited to see Eldridge Cleaver, an early leader of the Black Panther party, in a Portland Park. The press labeled it a[Read More…]