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NEWBERG, Ore. — Painting galleries, mosaic classes, ceramics workshops, and theater shows — Newberg’s Chehalem Cultural Center offers all this and more for hundreds of community members who come to make or view art in a variety of mediums. Get These Stories First, Right in your Inbox.

Municipal broadcaster K23 TV, which serves the City of Keizer, Oregon, has integrated PTZ cameras from Telycam to improve the visual quality of its live broadcasts of city meetings. The channel, managed by Ambition Pictures, provides coverage of city council, planning commission, and other public sessions from the...

As the shift towards online learning continues to rise, students are increasingly seeking out alternative study spaces to break the monotony of studying at home. A recent discussion on social media highlighted the need for such spaces in Salem, Oregon. The original poster, an e-campus student at Oregon State...

The Oregon Health Authority has found two providers and three insurance plans had unreasonable cost increases in 2023. The Corvallis Clinic, St. Charles Health System in Bend, PacificSource’s commercial insurance plan, and United Healthcare’s and Moda’s Medicare Advantage Plans were found to have unreasonably cost...

At Salem Health Orthopedics, patients who undergo hip replacement surgery receive care plans based on their health history and needs. Jeff Cooksey, PA-C, is a physician associate who works with hip and knee replacements. He says preparation is important for recovery after surgery. The first six weeks require patients...

Age and genetics are major factors in heart disease that cannot be changed, according to David McWhorter, a cardiology physician associate at Salem Health. He states that other causes, such as obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and sleep apnea, can often be managed with appropriate care.

The loved ones of a hunter who died in the Mount Hood National Forest thank the community for volunteering and donating to continue the search long after official efforts ended. Devon Dobek’s remains were recovered Sunday afternoon, Nov. 16. His body had been spotted the day before at the bottom...

Ruben Robert Navarro-Herrera received an 85-month prison sentence for attempting to rob a West Salem man and possessing a stolen firearm and commercial-level narcotics. Marion County, OR. — Ruben Robert Navarro-Herrera, 31, of Albany, has been sentenced to 85 months in prison for attempting to rob a West Salem man...

The Salem-Keizer School District is launching an effort to persuade lawmakers and the Oregon Department of Education to correct what the district’s leaders believe is a systemic, decades-long undercount of more than 100,000 of the state’s poorest students. At stake is at least $290 million that they say...

The crew at Evergreen Skateparks just hit us with another batch of progress photos from the massive 20,000-square-foot build going down in Salem, Oregon—and things are really starting to take form in a real way. You can already see the flow developing, (even with all the rebar, forms, and framing ...