On Any Sundae's hand-painted mural at 3239 Market St. NE may have to be covered after the city issued a signage compliance notice, and the ice cream shop plans to seek approval from the Salem Public Art Commission.
Salem Cinema will show Halloween films starting today, Oct.
28, with Trick 'R Treat at 7:30 p.m., Scream Friday at 8:30 p.m., and Psycho Saturday at 8:30 p.m. The final Saturday Market will run 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31 (865 Marion St. S.E.), while a free Día de los Muertos at the library (585 Liberty St. S.E.) and Rudy's Chess O Ween tournament will also happen that day.
A former Safe Routes to School coordinator will receive $250,000 to settle claims after she was fired by the Mid-Willamette Valley Council of Governments in November 2025 for wearing a shirt showing the Ruby Bridges painting that includes a racial slur.
Salem City Council met Oct.
26 to consider a month-to-month lease of 1.69 acres at 2640 Portland Road NE so a local owner can open a food truck park and administrative offices, with proposed rent of $4,843 a month starting Nov. 1.
Salem-Keizer Public Schools plans to close six elementary schools in 2027, and students from three of those schools would move into buildings with significantly lower reading proficiency.
Superintendent Andrea Castañeda says academic performance was not used in the selection because the district considered that inequitable.
Oregon will raise PacificSource's capitation rate by 6% next year, increasing payments by about $34 per member per month so the insurer can care for roughly 160,000+ Medicaid enrollees in Marion and Polk counties.
Backus Estates is proposed along Chemawa Road in Keizer to subdivide 5.15 acres (1171, 1191 and 1201 Chemawa Road N) into about 80 lots, mostly townhomes, with two duplex lots, and the existing single‑family homes would be removed.
The Salem Public Market building, Oregon’s oldest farmers market, suffered fire damage on Oct.
21 after a late-night blaze — photos captured the extent of the damage.
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