A hot-air balloon made an unexpected landing in a Keizer neighborhood Friday morning. The balloon, passengers in tow, landed in the 500 block of Menlo Drive just about 8 a.m. Friday, Sept. 3. No one appeared to be injured. “We just ran out of wind and it was time to put it down,” said Jim [...]

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By LANCE MASTERSON Of the Keizertimes McNary’s new principal is clearly a product of the Salem-Keizer school district. Though born in Montana, John Honey went to middle and high school in Salem. After graduating from South Salem High School, he attended the University of Oregon where he majored in journalism. When it was time to [...]

By HERB SWETT For the Keizertimes “We’ve known for a long time that we’ve been doing great things. The federal government is just realizing that, I guess.” So said Colleen Johnson, the new principal of Claggett Creek Middle School, about its emergence from school improvement status by meeting the federal adequate yearly progress (AYP) status [...]

A man was arrested just east of Keizer after police said they found 136 marijuana plants in his Hazelgreen Road NE home. Detectives from the Keizer Police’s Community Response Unit along with the Marion County Sheriff’s Office Street Crimes Unit served a search warrant at a home in the 5500 block of Hazelgreen Road NE [...]

Two men who donate lots of time to Keizer’s parks were recognized at RIVERfair last weekend with the SPARKLE awards. The awards are given out by the Keizer Parks Foundation, a nonprofit established to improve parks in Keizer. Garry Whalen, a parks and recreation board member, “has been there to help the Keizer Parks Foundation [...]

By JASON COX Of the Keizertimes A program to help homeowners pay for sidewalk repair and installation is in the works. There’s been no official decision to create it, but Keizer city councilors asked staff at a work session earlier this month to create a framework for either a city-wide or smaller local improvement districts [...]

Roth’s Fresh Markets has renewed a lease with Schoolhouse Square to stay for at least five more years. [MAP: 5] The lease was renewed “at the very end of July,” said Michael Roth, president of the company. “We think it’s a good market – full of nice people,” Roth said. Roth’s was founded in 1962 and [...]

A farm hand discovered a marijuana grow on a farm just northwest of Keizer. The grow was discovered Friday, Aug. 27, in a field on Windsor Island Road near Simon Street. A field manager there with Chapin Farms showed Marion County Sheriff’s deputies a field where they found 42 marijuana plants growing. The plants ranged [...]

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