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City staff levels on deck as major council goal

KEIZERTIMES/File Revising and updating the city charter, beginning a new parks master plan, expanding the youth council program, continued outreach and engagement and beginning a conversation about long-term city staffing will be the top goals for the Keizer City Council for the next two years. Goal-setting was the only thing[Read More…]

Snow reverie

Snow was coating the Twilight Reverence statue in north Keizer when residents awoke to falling snow Wednesday, Feb. 27. (KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald)

Traffic signal coming to transit center

Prep work is being done for a new signalized intersection where the Keizer Transit Center meets Keizer Station Boulevard. (KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald) After operating the Keizer Transit Center (KTC) for more than five years with only right-in /right-out access only, the KTC is about to get a new traffic signal[Read More…]

Cherriots could dramatically reduce youth fares

It’s less than 200 days until Cherriots restores Saturday service and, in addition to that, the Salem Area Mass Transit District Board of Directors will take public comment on proposed changes to its youth fare program at a meeting Thursday, Feb. 28. The meeting will take place at 6:30 p.m.[Read More…]

40 days for life hosts kickoff rally

40 Days For Life will host a kickoff rally for their 40 day fast and prayer to end abortion in Salem on Sunday, March 3. The rally will begin at 3 p.m. at Salem First Baptist Church in the Commons of the Community Life center at 395 Marion Street NE.[Read More…]

Chemeketa hosts VEX robotics state finale

Chemeketa Community College will host the VEX Robotics State finale on Friday, March 8 and Saturday, March 9. The event will be at the Salem campus in the building 7 Gym starting at 5 p.m. on Friday and 8 a.m. on Saturday. The public is invited to see middle and[Read More…]

Annual Brooks breakfast

The Marion County Fire District Volunteer Firefighters Foundation will present the annual Brooks Breakfast on Saturday March 9 and Sunday March 10 at Station 5, 4960 Brooklake Road NE. All you can eat pancakes, ham, and eggs will be served from 7 a.m. to noon both days. Food will be[Read More…]

KT ON VACATION

Submitted photo Walt and Doris Jackson recently took their Keizertimes on a month long Australian cruise. One of the stops shown here was at Ulun Danu, a Hindu temple in Bali, Indonesia. You too can have your photo in the Keizertimes. Simply take the paper to your destination, snap a[Read More…]

Why we celebrate our presidents

Most of us didn’t have school on Monday, and while I’m always up for a three-day weekend, I never knew why Presidents Day was important when I was a kid. I figured it had something to do with presidents but I couldn’t tell you much more than that. Presidents Day[Read More…]