By CRAIG MURPHY Of the Keizertimes Sometime this year, Marc Adams will no longer be Keizer’s police chief. Adams, chief of the Keizer Police Department since 1997, had originally planned to retire in March 2014. That later changed to the end of 2013. Yet another change has prompted a rather fluid end date. Adams now [...]

By CRAIG MURPHY Of the Keizertimes Shawna Fenison appreciates her late son being honored. Now, she hopes Ryan Hill will be remembered for generations to come. A step towards that took place Monday evening, as emotional members of the Keizer City Council unanimously approved a resolution to name park property in Keizer Station Area A [...]

  By CRAIG MURPHY Of the Keizertimes For the most part, things went smoothly at the first budget committee meeting of the season May 2. Except for discussion of a new position for the Keizer Civic Center, that is. City Manager Chris Eppley has proposed adding an Events Center Coordinator position, which would handle some [...]

By CRAIG MURPHY Of the Keizertimes Part of Cherry Avenue NE in Keizer was closed for nearly two hours Tuesday due to a suspicious package. Cherry was closed between Manbrin Avenue and Sam Orcutt Way around 11 a.m. when the package was found by the city water pump station at 4160 Cherry Avenue NE. Officers [...]

By CRAIG MURPHY Of the Keizertimes Keizer Rapids Park has room for all kinds of activities, including…armored combat? Yes, youth armored combat practices could soon be taking place at the park. Carissa Spenst (or Lady Duvessa of Movilla, as she is also known), Youth Armored Combat Warden for the Principality of the Summits, spoke about [...]

By CRAIG MURPHY Of the Keizertimes Keizer Planning Commission members looked over figures April 24 that had been discussed and tweaked over the course of several months. Then they were told the numbers weren’t quite right. Two weeks before the meeting, members of the Economic Opportunities Analysis (EOA)/Housing Needs Assessment (HNA) task force approved a [...]

By CRAIG MURPHY Of the Keizertimes Vellis Salway doesn’t do her special project anymore, stopping after 124 were completed. But oh, how the 85-year-old Keizerite would love to keep going. For years, Salway would make a baby quilt for expecting parents in her Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints ward on Lockhaven Drive. “I’ve [...]

By CRAIG MURPHY Of the Keizertimes Next weekend, Nick Boston suspects some Keizer residents may need to put running shoes on. Why? May 11 marks the 21st annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive, when letter carriers around the country collect cans of food. Boston, who retired last spring after being a mail carrier for 39 [...]

By CRAIG MURPHY Of the Keizertimes A new Silverton Health clinic is expected to be open at Inland Shores in Keizer by January. Rick Cagen, president and CEO of Silverton Health, confirmed details with the Keizertimes on Wednesday. The day before, Cagen met with various Keizer officials. “The meeting was incredible,” Cagen said. “We’ve done [...]

  By CRAIG MURPHY Of the Keizertimes A Keizer family was uninjured after a kitchen fire Monday afternoon. The incident on the 2000 block of Chemawa Road North left Keizer fire chief Jeff Cowan preaching what to do. According to Cowan, the mother had hot oil on the stove and was making tortillas. She was [...]