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The City of Keizer recently approved a new design for a new welcome sign. City officials assume that Salem will install the sign shortly at the junction of Broadway Street, Stark Street, and River Road.

Items including power tools and hand tools are going up in batches on the website govdeals.com. The auction closes the book on a theft case dating back some five years.

Children can read to Maxwell, a black Labrador, on the first and third Saturdays of the month at the Keizer Community Library.

Keizer artists will showcase their work at a free outdoor festival on Saturday, Aug. 9, at Englewood Park in Salem. The festival will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and will feature a diverse range of artists.

A new Mexican restaurant is set to open at Keizer Station in October. Jorge Castro, the owner of the Margarita Factory restaurant chain, is redoing the building’s interior in preparation for his Latin American and cocktail eatery.

A blaze tore through a Keizer home on Tuesday, July 22, at approximately 10:30 p.m. Keizer firefighters arrived at the scene at 5293 Chehalis Dr. N. and found the back half of the home ablaze, threatening neighboring structures. “When I got there, there was one…

Around 450 families attended the events last year for National Night Out, a national community-building campaign. Keizer’s five neighborhood associations will host family activities throughout the evening on Tuesday, Aug. 5.

The Keizer Chamber of Commerce has selected Shaney Starr, also president of the Keizer City Council, to lead the organization until it finds a permanent director later this year.