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1 week ago | 
salemreporter.com | Madeleine Moore |Ardeshir Tabrizian |Abbey McDonald
Each week, Salem Reporter highlights a selection of upcoming local events. For a more complete list, browse our events calendar here. You can submit an upcoming event here. Here’s a roundup for the week from Thursday, April 17, to Wednesday, April 23. *Starred events are free to attend, although they may include ticketed components or a suggested donation. Earlier this week, Salem Reporter published a roundup of Easter events taking place around Salem this weekend.
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1 week ago | 
salemreporter.com | Abbey McDonald |Ardeshir Tabrizian |Joe Siess
A town hall discussion of taxes isn’t often a place for positive emotions. But despite the tough topic, the energy in Elsinore Theatre Tuesday night matched that of the speakers’ main message of the evening: we’re in this together. “How many of us in here really love our Salem?” said City Councilor Irvin Brown from the stage, eliciting cheers and whoops from the audience.
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1 week ago | 
salemreporter.com | Ardeshir Tabrizian |Madeleine Moore
After nearly three years, Debby Clark still has no idea what started the fight that resulted in her husband’s death. She told police at the time, in August 2022, that a man attacked and ultimately shot her husband, Scott “Scotty” G. Tanner, 35, in a parking lot at east Salem’s Geer Park where they all lived out of their cars. Officers arrived to find Clark screaming and lying on top of her dead husband. Marion County Circuit Court Judge Tom Hart on Monday sentenced Tanner’s killer, Thomas P.
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1 week ago | 
salemreporter.com | Madeleine Moore |Ardeshir Tabrizian
An fire early Monday morning destroyed a home in south Salem’s Morningside neighborhood, displacing the resident and their dog. Salem firefighters responded to the fire around 4 a.m. after a caller reported seeing flames at the home and concerns about an elderly occupant and a dog still inside, according to a statement from the Salem Fire Department. Photos show the house was located at 1015 Southeast Ratcliff Drive.
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3 weeks ago | 
salemreporter.com | Ardeshir Tabrizian |Madeleine Moore
Dozens marched across the Union Street Pedestrian Bridge Tuesday morning in recognition of the first day of Child Abuse Awareness Month. Most participants were teachers, classroom assistants and other employees of the Mid-Willamette Valley Community Action Agency’s Head Start programs, according to operations manager Debra Devine. Participants in the Tuesday walk looped from Riverfront Park to Wallace Marine Park and back.
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3 weeks ago | 
salemreporter.com | Ardeshir Tabrizian |Rachel Alexander |Les Zaitz
Concerns over funding for a downtown Salem project intended to bring a slew of social service providers under one roof have prompted state officials to pull the plug. The ambitious project, called the “Block of Humanity,” had $3 million of state lottery funds earmarked during the 2024 session, which was never spent. That was about half of the amount requested by the Salem YMCA, which led the project in its early stages.
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3 weeks ago | 
salemreporter.com | Rachel Alexander |Ardeshir Tabrizian |Les Zaitz |Joe Siess
Each week, a semi truck pulls up to the loading dock at Marion Polk Food Share to deliver tons of meat, dairy, eggs and produce. The food comes from federal programs that buy surplus from farmers across the U.S. and distribute it to food banks to hand out to people in need. But after recent Trump administration cuts to emergency food programs, those deliveries will be cut in half, said Rick Gaupo, the food share’s CEO.
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4 weeks ago | 
salemreporter.com | Ardeshir Tabrizian |Les Zaitz |Joe Siess
A new program in the Marion County Circuit Court is working to keep Native American children with their families or other tribal members by helping parents overcome struggles that landed them in the child welfare system. The effort supports the Indian Child Welfare Act, a federal law enacted in 1978 to stop the systematic removal of Native American children from their communities through adoption to non-Native families.
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4 weeks ago | 
salemreporter.com | Madeleine Moore |Ardeshir Tabrizian |Rachel Alexander
Salem police are looking for additional victims of a Salem man who’s been charged with sex crimes involving three girls between ages 12 and 13. The man, Damien M. Arellano, 19 of Salem, was arrested in Los Angeles in early March after fleeing Oregon sometime earlier this year, a Wednesday news release from the Salem Police Department said. On Feb.
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4 weeks ago | 
salemreporter.com | Ardeshir Tabrizian |Rachel Alexander |Madeleine Moore
A 40-year-old man died early Tuesday morning in the Marion County Jail after he was found unresponsive in his cell, according to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office. In a news release Tuesday evening, the sheriff’s office said authorities were still investigating the cause and manner of Adam Mansour’s death. Mansour was found unresponsive in his cell just before 3:15 a.m. on Tuesday. The sheriff’s office, which operates the jail, did not clarify in its statement who found him.
