Over the centuries, tribal elders, parents, and grandparents have passed on cultural heritage and wisdom through storytelling around the bonfire or late at night to send their children to sleep and dreamland. In the first concert of their 48th season,…
Five Keizer neighborhood associations are joining to host a candidate and issue forum on Wednesday, Oct. 19, at the Keizer Civic Center, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Candidates for Keizer city council, mayor, Oregon legislature, Congressional district 6, Marion County…
Willamette Riverkeeper, the City of Keizer, City of Salem, Marion SWCD and Oregon State Parks are hosting a famil- friendly trash clean up event at Keizer Rapids Park as a part of Willamette Riverkeeper’s 14th Annual Great Willamette Cleanup. The…
It’s the oldest haunted attraction in Oregon…and the largest. The Oregon School for the Deaf’s Nightmare Factory is back until Halloween night, on Oct. 31. The COVID pandemic kept it closed for two years. It first opened in 1979 and…
Members of the McNary High School band and color guard will spread throughout Keizer neighborhoods on Saturday, Sept. 17, to collect redeemable cans and bottles as a fundraiser to the benefit the band program, including updating the marching uniforms for…
The final three performances of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man are scheduled for Friday, Sept. 9 through Sunday, Sept. 11. Keizer Homegrown Theatre’s production is being staged in the Ken Collins Theatre at McNary High School. The community-wide musical features…
The Kennedy Neighborhood Council held its first event on Saturday, Aug. 20, at the Church on the Hill, near Kennedy School. The Council was formed in July with the mission of informing Kennedy School parents, families and neighbors that a…
Irene Jone’s earliest memory is attending an Indian school near Porterville, Calif., sometime before the age of four. A hundred years later, she celebrated her 104th birthday with family and friends. She was born in Atwell, Texas on Aug. 16,…
The Wells Fargo wagon is coming and it is bringing instruments to the kids in the town of River City, Iowa. The trombones, trumpets, clarinets and piccolos are part of conman Harold Hill’s plot to fleece the good people of…
Summer’s Big Finish, the 2022 Oregon State Fair will open on Friday, Aug. 26 and run through Labor Day, Sept. 5. The eleven-day event will include the elements fair-goers expect including livestock, horse shows, 4-H competitions and creative living competitions…
