By HERB SWETT For the Keizertimes Sale of the Middle Grove School property was taken off the agenda of Tuesday’s Salem-Keizer School Board meeting. At its April meeting, the board learned from Paul Dakopolos, the district’s legal counsel, that although a quiet-title action would be needed to sell the land, there was a 98 percent [...]

  By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes It’s not uncommon for the contestants in the Distinguished Young Women of Keizer scholarship program to be labeled as “pageant girls,” but the stereotypes associated with such a label couldn’t be further from the truth, said Michelle Nelson. “For the past few weeks everyone has been calling [...]

  By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes Nine McNary High School juniors will take the stage Saturday, May 11, at the high school to compete for scholarships in the annual Distinguished Young Women of Keizer (DYWK) scholarship program. The program, formally known as Junior Miss, gives young women with college aspirations the opportunity to [...]

By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes In the Salem-Keizer School District, and across the nation, incoming freshmen are struggling when making the transition to high school, but a program in its second year at McNary High School is hoping to make it easier for the students who take part. “We offer high school credit [...]

  By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes Here are a few of the things that the McNary High School orchestra achieved during its recent trip to the Seattle Worldstrides Heritage Music Festival April 18-21: • The highest single score out of a festival adjudicator. • A gold rating, the highest possible rating for their [...]

By HERB SWETT For the Keizertimes A shortfall of about $17.7 million is estimated for the 2013-14 budget of the Salem-Keizer School District, superintendent Sandy Husk told the budget committee Tuesday. The proposed budget totals $563,891,655, of which 65 percent is the general fund. Husk focused her presentation Tuesday on the general fund. Referring to [...]

By ERIC A, HOWALD Of the Keizertimes It’s possible for someone to not know Karissa Rush’s name, but anyone who has spent time in the McNary High School hallways likely knows her work. She’s had a hand in nearly every poster for productions of the McNary drama department, she’s created posters for choir concerts and [...]

MHS curtain to rise on Two Gentlemen

By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes For the past two weeks, a group of German students has been visiting McNary High School, but the students’ preparation for the trip actually began long before they arrived in the U.S. “We got to choose classes we wanted to sit in on from a huge master schedule [...]

By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes McNary High School history teacher Gary Bulen was talking with a friend about his upcoming lessons on the Vietnam War. Then the friend mentioned his sister was a student at McNary when a former student was writing back to The Piper about his experiences on the front lines. [...]