Brooks News

Salem Bible College is growing, changing - and accredited. Starting this fall, Salem Bible College will offer on-campus housing because it has moved to a larger campus.

Keizer residents got their first glimpse at four newly proposed Keizer transit center sites Tuesday.

A former Marion County teacher was sentenced to one year, eight months in prison on sex abuse charges involving a former student.

A Salem-area ham radio organization is hosting its annual field day in Brooks. The 2009 Salem Amateur Radio Club Field Day began Saturday and continues through 11 a.m. today.

Father's Day is Sunday. Don't take my word for it, look on the calendar. It is also the start of summer.

Pastor Ronnie Brooks can envision a day when all Salem residents will reach out to African-Americans in the community.

We wish it was last weekend, Memorial Day all over again. But it's not and so we must soldier forward.

Glenn Watkins of Lake Oswego tries out a 1923 Mack logging truck that was based in Florence and is displayed in the Pacific Northwest Truck Museum.

The public is invited to comment on a proposed new solid waste permit for Agri-Plas2Crude Inc.

Getting here was half the battle. Keizer Station unveiled a 1904 Baldwin steam locomotive just after noon on Friday that will be the centerpiece of a railroad-themed re-branding of the shopping center.

The Mid-Valley is home to an amazing array of festivals. There are festivals celebrating our artistic and cultural traditions, our agricultural heritage and bounty, our forbears, the changing seasons, or just for plain-old fun.

Country Cablevision, a cable TV provider that serves Brooks and portions of Marion County, is getting a $1.2 million upgrade that should bring significant improvements for its customers.

Marion County Dist. 1 Fire Chief J. Kevin Henson received mostly negative comments from the audience at the May 20 board meeting of Marion County Fire District No.

Today, nine thousand gallons of crude oil is headed from Brooks, Oregon to an oil refinery in Tacoma.

Associated Press A April 20, 2009 A BROOKS, Ore. -- A Brooks company, Agri-Plas, is turning waste plastics back into the oil the plastics were made from.

A draft of Marion County's solid waste plan recommends extending the contract with the Brooks incinerator, evaluating uses for the ash created when garbage is burned and examining ways to expand food waste composting.

In the latest showing of Oregona s entrepreneurial and environmental prowess, Agri-Plas, an Oregon-based plastics recycler, is the first company in the nation to convert unwanted and typically unrecyclable ...

Marion County District Attorney Walt Beglau thinks many of the defendants involved in cases his office prosecutes may have chosen a different path in life, if only they'd been positively influenced as children.

Marion County Fire District 1 Volunteer Firefighters Association is hosting two pancake breakfasts for the community this weekend at the Chemeketa-Brooks Regional Training Center.

A man who unsuccessfully tried to kill himself early today in Keizer was stopped by police while trying to "walk to Seattle," officials said.