Residents at Wildwood Mobile Villa are hoping to fight back against rent increases. (KEIZERTIMES/File photo) The owners of homes in Wildwood Mobile Villa, a manufactured home park in northwest Keizer are feeling the pinch of rent burdens, but it’s not the only way residents feel they’ve been squeezed – even[Read More…]
Author: Eric A. Howald
Museum exhibit is (slightly) radioactive
Tammy Wild’s collection of uranium glass emits a ghostly green glow under black light. Tammy Wild picked up her interest in colored glass from her in-laws who had colorful displays in their homes. But, a chance encounter with information on uranium glass on the internet helped her discover some of[Read More…]
A call for fellow sojourners
Cara Meredith Cara Meredith’s journey from Keizer led her into the arms of the man she loves and then into confrontation with her own “colorblind” view of the world. “I think I’ve gotten a lot wrong. Sometimes I think my book is what not to do when it comes to[Read More…]
Keizer at least 500 ACRES short of growth space
Keizer will come up short of the space it needs to absorb expected growth over the next 20 years, by at least 500 acres. The news was delivered by Bob Parker, a project director at ECONorthwest, at a meeting of the city’s Housing Needs and Buildable Lands Inventory Task Force Monday,[Read More…]
Keizer woman charged as accomplice in Cloverdale bank robbery
Cassandra Maughan A 36-year-old man from the Salem-Keizer area and a 34-year-old woman from Keizer were arrested Friday, March 22, on charges related to an armed bank robbery in Cloverdale that ended with a crash into a police vehicle and exchange of gunfire. On March 21, 2019 at 11:30 a.m.,[Read More…]
Planning commission tables urban transition zone talks
Members of the Keizer Planning Commission discussed options for transforming a limited section of the city’s development code at its meeting Wednesday, March 13, but were uncomfortable with making a recommendation before engaging property owners to discuss the matter with them. At issue is a section of the development code[Read More…]
Clark lauds city’s efforts at Chamber lunch
Mayor Cathy Clark delivers the annual State of the City address at a Keizer Chamber of Commerce luncheon Tuesday, March 12. From livability and development to what’s being done to assist some of Keizer’s most vulnerable residents, Mayor Cathy Clark is feeling good about the future of the city. “We[Read More…]
Parks board seeks boost to matching grant fund
A conversation about instituting a parks improvement fund aimed at assisting youth projects turned into a plan to ask for a $5,000 increase to a matching grant program administered by the Keizer Parks Advisory Board at a meeting Tuesday, March 12. Inspired by some of the past projects completed with[Read More…]
Committee floats 4th option for bikes, peds along River Road
The Keizer Traffic Safety Committee put forth a new option for redesigning non-vehicle traffic flow on River Road North. The proposal would mean narrower lanes and a multiuse sidewalk for both bikes and pedestrians on each side of the street. KEIZERTIMES/Candace Johnson Members of the Keizer Traffic Safety, Bikeways and[Read More…]
Bracing for change
The McNary High School campus is about to get a lot busier. Beginning later this month or April, Salem-Keizer School district officials are expected to start staging a multimillion dollar expansion of the Celtic’s school. “Now that we’ve purchased the [church] property, we’ll start the mobilization. You’ll see the trailers[Read More…]