Tucked within Keizer’s Palma Ceia subdivision, Pam and John Johnsons’ home doesn’t stick out. The beige colored split-level home, while cute, is just one of a dozen other similar looking homes on the block. But hidden behind the suburban home is the Johnsons’ own private beach. Grass replaced by sand,[Read More…]
Author: JOEY CAPPELLETTI
Driving with influence: The death of three and the driving of one
A Keizer home on Trail Avenue that Andrew Modine is alleged to have driven into on Jan. 22, 2022. (KEIZERTIMES/Joey Cappelletti) The Modine brothers, Andrew and Thomas, were drinking at The Shack Bar and Grill in Salem on a September night in 2015. The brothers left the bar around 8[Read More…]
Keizer leaders announce candidacies for Senate District 11
(Left) Richard Walsh and (right) Anthony Rosilez. (Submitted photos) Two more prominent Keizer figures announced this week that they would be running in Senate District 11, joining current state Senator Kim Thatcher in the race to represent Keizer and much of Salem. “I have spent decades taking on and prevailing[Read More…]
Man sentenced to 70 months in prison for Keizer car shooting
Keizer Police Department. (KEIZERTIMES/Joey Cappelletti) A man arrested in Keizer last year after shooting into a car with two adults and an infant pleaded guilty on Monday, Feb. 14 and was sentenced to just under six years in prison. Twenty-one-year-old Christian Diaz-Diaz was arrested on June 30, 2021 following a[Read More…]
COVID restrictions loosen throughout county, state
COVID Coronavirus State health officials announced in a press release Monday, Feb. 7 that mask requirements for indoor public places and schools would be removed no later than March 31, with the possibility of the requirement being lifted sooner. “We should see COVID-19 hospitalizations drop by the end of March[Read More…]
City to host Feb. 15 community forum with city manager finalists
City of Keizer department heads sit to the left of city council at a Jan. 3 meeting (KEIZERTIMES/Joey Cappelletti). Community members are invited to a public forum on Tuesday, Feb. 15 to meet Keizer’s three city manager finalists and ask them questions. The forum will take place in the council[Read More…]
Former employee returns to Keizer Safeway to start fire
The Safeway located in Keizer. (KEIZERTIMES/Joey Cappelletti) A former Safeway employee was arrested on Feb. 4 after returning to a Keizer Safeway two months after he quit and lighting a fire in the store’s bathroom, setting off the sprinkler system and causing $1,500 in damages, according to police reports. The[Read More…]
Hundreds gather outside S-K district offices to protest mask requirements in schools
Parents, students and others gather alongside Lancaster Drive in Salem to protest mask mandates. (KEIZERTIMES/Joey Cappelletti) Over 200 people gathered outside of the Salem-Keizer School District offices on Tuesday morning to protest ongoing mask mandates within schools. The rally’s attendees, who stood along Lancaster Drive, held signs and waved American[Read More…]
Keizer Diversity Committee holds first meeting
The Community Diversity Engagement Committee meets in the council chambers on Jan. 25 (KEIZERTIMES/Joey Cappelletti). When attendees walked into the Community Diversity Engagement Committee’s first meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 25 they were given statistics. 71% white, 23% Hispanic and 12% multi-racial; statistics that outline the demographic makeup of the 39,376[Read More…]
Sobriety at Simonka: The redemption story of Laura Hammack
Laura Hammack works the front desk of Simonka Place on Jan. 28 as part of the New Life Fellowship program (KEIZERTIMES/Joey Cappelletti). It wasn’t Laura Hammack’s first time in the hospital. A decades-long drinking problem had resulted in four hospital scares in the past. But an emergency room visit in[Read More…]
