McNary post Boston Smith (30) beats South Salem’s Trey Galbraith off the dribble and looks to score. (KEIZERTIMES/Matt Rawlings) Back on Jan. 31, the McNary boys basketball pulled off the upset of the year in the Mountain Valley Conference, knocking off second-ranked South Salem 59-57 — giving the Saxons their[Read More…]
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Volcanoes make return to KYKN
Mitche Graf, the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes president of business operations, announced at the organization’s winter sports banquet on Feb. 7 that the team has entered a new multi-year radio partnership with 1430 KYKN, returning Volcanoes games to the station after an absence of more than a decade. KYKN was the flagship[Read More…]
Keizer athletes place second at national tourney
(From left to right) Emily Blagg. Madison Corpe, Isabella Rodriguez and Talia Medlin smile for the camera after helping their team take second at a national volleyball tourney in Missouri. (Submitted) The North Pacific Juniors (NPJ) 14U Salem National club volleyball team got the opportunity to compete at the Triple[Read More…]
McNary bowlers pull off upset at state tournament
McNary bowler Bailey Gekeler works on her technique at a practice back in February. (KEIZERTIMES/Matt Rawlings) The McNary girls bowling team competed in the state tournament over the weekend (Feb. 23-24) and pulled off a major upset in the first round. The Celtics were seeded 15th coming into the tournament,[Read More…]
Celtics can’t overcome poor fourth quarter
McNary guard Kennedy Buss desperately tries to find a teammate after getting trapped in the corner in the Celtics 53-40 loss to South Salem. (KEIZERTIMES/Matt Rawlings) For three quarters, the McNary girls basketball team practically played even with South Salem — who won the Mountain Valley Conference regular season title.[Read More…]
Parra and Burrows represent McNary at state
Gilbert Parra (blue singlet) fights for position in his opening match of the tourney. (KEIZERTIMES/Matt Rawlings) After each placing third in their respective divisions at the Mountain Valley Conference District Tournament, both Grady Burrows and Gilbert Parra were thrilled to be representing McNary High School at the state wrestling meet[Read More…]
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Grady Burrows
GRADY BURROWS Sophomore at McNary High School Burrows was the only McNary wrestler to win a match at the state meet on Friday, Feb. 22 at Memorial Coliseum. The 113-pound sophomore pinned Finn Whittaker from Wilson High School less than a minute into the bout in the first round of[Read More…]
Choose River Road options wisely
Lyndon A. Zaitz The options a consulting firm presented at a recent open house for a revitalized River Road will not please everyone, especially commuters. One of the options unveiled at the Feb. 12 open house at Keier Civic Center called for removing the center turn lane and installing bike[Read More…]
Will the real Post please stand up?
Rep. Bill Post built his name locally as an entertaining, sometimes bombastic talk radio host who delighted in aggravating the left and affirming the right’s beliefs. These skills put him in a position to run for the Oregon Legislature, but it was in many ways his less prominent qualities that[Read More…]
Debate over ISIS bride
In 2014, Hoda Muthana, then 20 years old, left Alabama to become an ISIS bride in Syria. When she left the United States, she posted her passport on her Twitter account and implied she was about to burn it. Now Muthana wants to return to the U.S. with her 18-month-old[Read More…]