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Dancing at Lughnasa opens April 12

Willamette University’s theater department will present Brian Friel’s award-winning play, Dancing at Lughnasa, opening Friday, April 12 at the campus’ M. Lee Pelton Theatre. The play will run through Saturday, April 27.

Keizer’s Public Square

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Teachers strike averted

After a March 25 mediation session that began and ended early in the morning, both the teachers unions and the Salem-Keizer School District (SKPS) have finally come to a tentative agreement. 

Gervais fires police chief, fueling ongoing feud and attempt to recall city officials

Lt. Tim West of the Gervais Police Department said he’d never had a loaded firearm pointed at his face. Until 2022.

“I didn’t think it would be by my chief,” West reportedly told a colleague.

West’s blistering allegation appeared in a 101-page investigative report on former Gervais Police Chief Mark Chase that the city commissioned in October. The document led to Chase’s firing last month and sparked an ongoing feud between his defenders and elected officials in the quiet city of 2,700 people about 15 miles northeast of Salem.

Sandler gets serious, again

Adam Sandler has admitted that often he picks roles depending on whether or not they let him travel to exotic locations so he can essentially have a studio-paid vacation while only occasionally doing work in front of the camera.