Marion News

The din of children's laughter and talk filled the dining room at Salem First Free Methodist Church.

Marion County commissioners on Wednesday approved a 2009-10 budget that is $13.9 million smaller than this year's and includes 45 fewer positions.

A poetry workshop sponsored through Stayton's Second Sundays Series of Poetry Readings is coming to Stayton on Saturday.

Law enforcement officers and area youth gathered this morning for a long-standing Detroit Lake tradition.

Earlier this month, the paper highlighted Marion County Healthy Communities kickoff.

A decision on the future of J. Kevin Henson as fire chief of Marion County Dist.

The public is invited to Salem Public Market's annual Strawberry Shortcake Celebration 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, June 20.

The public is invited to Salem Public Market's annual Strawberry Shortcake Celebration 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on June 20.

Marion-Polk Food Share is seeking volunteers to help serve free lunches in rural communities this summer.

A severe thunderstorm watch was issued for Oregon until 9 p.m. this evening. The counties included in the alert are Marion, Polk, Linn, Lane, Benton, Clackamas, Multnomah, Yamhill and Washington counties.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Marion and other Oregon counties will share $35 million in federal stimulus funding meant to put people to work maintaining forest roads and restoring vital watersheds and floodplains.

Museums If you need a day's or an afternoon's diversion that's not far from home, the Mid-Valley and nearby coast offer a variety of venues that explore local history and science.

Salem and Marion County will be hit especially hard by job losses resulting from cuts in the Democrats' proposed state budget.

Frozen blueberries distributed to Oregon food shares in April have been recalled, officials said Thursday.

Salem officials are so happy with the first year of results with red-light cameras that they want to install them at two other intersections: Lancaster Drive and Center Street NE, and Silverton and Fisher roads NE.

Federal stimulus money will be coming to Marion and Polk counties for emergency food and shelter programs.

Health officials said Oregon was scaling back its swine flu response because it is behaving like a typical flu outbreak.

From Smudge: Before Timon complains about the bias dripping from this week's column, I will declare that the following information is indeed shameless self-promotion for my breed - which unequivocally is the cutest of all canines .

As of 6:12 a.m., traffic is reportedly running clear, officials said. No crashes were reported.

WASHINGTON - Calling on Americans to volunteer, President Obama signed a $5.7 billion national-service bill on April 21 that triples the size of the AmeriCorps service program during the next eight years and expands ways for students to earn money for college.