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Latest reporting from the Community desk.
Latest reporting from the Community desk.
Community
The Salem Art Association opens its inaugural Indigenous Northwest Biennial on Sept. 4 at the A.N. Bush Gallery, featuring 16 Pacific Northwest Native artists curated by Grand Ronde tribal member Steph Littlebird, with three free public talks through October.
Community
The Salem Art Association opens its inaugural Indigenous Northwest Biennial on Sept. 4 at the A.N. Bush Gallery, featuring 16 Pacific Northwest Native artists curated by Grand Ronde tribal member Steph Littlebird, with three free public talks through October.
Community
The Salem Art Association opens its inaugural Indigenous Northwest Biennial on Sept. 4 at the A.N. Bush Gallery, featuring 16 Pacific Northwest Native artists curated by Grand Ronde tribal member Steph Littlebird, with three free public talks through October.
Community
Salem's Heat Watch Campaign is recruiting about 100 community volunteers to drive designated routes with temperature sensors, mapping the city's hottest neighborhoods to guide future cooling investments.
Community
The Marion County Fair opens Thursday, July 9, at the Oregon State Fairgrounds with $3 admission, anchoring a week that also features Pentacle Theatre's final run of "Rumors," Marion Berries baseball, a free movie at Riverfront Park, and a Salem Philharmonia Orchestra concert on the Capitol Mall.
Community
The Willamette Heritage Center's "Music at the Mill" series features a different local band every other Tuesday evening through summer 2026, with the next show on July 14 featuring THIS The Funk.
Community
Salem's July arts calendar opens with the downtown Art Walk on Friday, July 3, followed by new exhibits exploring motherhood, America's 250th anniversary, and Pacific Northwest craft at three local venues.
Community
Salem's 2022 Safety and Livability Bond is generating construction activity across multiple neighborhoods simultaneously, with park makeovers at McKay Park and Bailey Ridge Park, road rehabilitation on Commercial Street SE and Doaks Ferry Road NW, and a Civic Center retrofit that just got a $1.5 million budget addition.
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