By HERB SWETT For the Keizertimes Nancy MacMorris-Adix, who has been vice chairperson of the Salem-Keizer School Board, was unanimously elected chairperson Tuesday and immediately took over the office. The board also elected Rick Kimball vice chairperson; he stepped down from the chair. It voted to continue the Salem law firm of Garret, Hemann Robertson, [...]

By HERB SWETT For the Keizertimes A 2012-13 budget of $5,386,034 for the Keizer Fire District was adopted last month by its board of directors. Action came after no one spoke from the audience at what was a budget hearing. The board also approved transferring funds as needed from the general fund to the emergency [...]

By HERB SWETT For the Keizertimes Long balls from Joe Rapp and Dashenko Ricardo and the strong pitching of Joan Gregorio led the Volcanoes to a 5-3 win July 6 in the last game of the home series with Vancouver before a crowd of 3,320. Preceding the game was the final night of the patriotic [...]

By HERB SWETT For the Keizertimes An amendment calculated to save Keizer more than $76,000 annually was approved by the City Council on Monday. The vote extended the terms of an agreement between the Keizer Urban Renewal Agency and Bank of America that primarily involves the construction costs of the new Keizer Civic Center. The [...]

By HERB SWETT For the Keizertimes It took the strongest club in the Northwest League 11 innings, but the Everett AquaSox beat Salem-Keizer 4-2 Saturday at Volcanoes Stadium to sweep the three-game series. Everett scored the first run of the game in the third inning, the Volcanoes went ahead by one in the fifth, and [...]

By HERB SWETT For the Keizertimes Rafael Rodriguez’s big bat and effective work from the Volcanoes’ last two pitchers were not enough to keep visiting Eugene from beating Salem-Keizer 10-7 Monday. Rodriguez tripled in the third inning, driving in Matt Duffy and Chuckie Jones, and scored on a double by Brennan Mergenthaler. In the seventh, [...]

BY HERB SWETT For the Keizertimes A 12-inning 3-2 victory over visiting Boise opened the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes’ 2012 season Friday, June 15 before a crowd of 3,256. One of last year’s Volcanoes pitchers, Matt Graham, won the game in relief. The winning run was scored by Sam Eberle shortly after he singled in his first [...]

By HERB SWETT For the Keizertimes Tom Trebelhorn, manager of the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes, has his eye on the draft for this season. Last year’s Volcanoes finished in the cellar of the Northwest League West, although they had a better win-loss record than the East division’s Yakima Bears. Starting pitching was the big problem, but Trebelhorn [...]

By HERB SWETT For the Keizertimes Fire Chief Jeff Cowan of the Keizer Fire District received a B-plus rating from the board of directors Tuesday after an executive session evaluating his performance. The board also renewed his contract, under which his annual salary will be $110,328. In other personnel matters, the board accepted the resignation [...]

By HERB SWETT For the Keizertimes The 2012-13 Salem-Keizer School District budget of $578,990,853 was approved by the board of directors Tuesday. Budget funds are a $343,423,734 general fund, a $48,060,322 debt service fund, $87,940,665 for capital projects, $16,773,133 for food services, a $4,732,503 asset replacement fund, $37,229,314 for grant programs, $15,518,613 for fee-based programs, [...]