Two recent events spotlighted the many ways McNary High School students are putting their creativity to work. The Fine Arts Department hosted an open house Thursday, Oct. 18 and the choir hosted its annual Night of Hope, on Oct. 25, a fundraiser for Liberty House and the Mid-Valley Women’s Crisis Center. (Photos by Eric A. Howald)

By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes Abigail Marzolf, Holly Provost and Isabella Rodriguez lead me around the Forest Ridge Elementary School naturescape showing off their favorite spots, talking about the macroinvertebrates they find in the two ponds and listing the various birds they’ve spotted in the space right outside their classroom door. This isn’t [...]

By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes Spoiler Alert! Of all the things they might have looked forward to about McNary High School’s upcoming production of Little Shop of Horrors, the thing Kendra Smith and her understudy Julia Fegles are most looking forward to getting eaten by a nine-foot plant puppet. “It’s going to be [...]

By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes There was a moment in his math class earlier in the morning when Gubser Elementary School fifth grade teacher David Baumer felt his grip on his class slipping. The students were trying to calculate how many gallons of water 400 cups would fill. He stood at the whiteboard [...]

Cummings and Gubser Elementary Schools held their annual Jog-A-Thon fundraisers last week. Students braved a chilly morning and thick fog to raise money for their schools. (Photos by Eric A. Howald)

The McNary High School Fine Arts Department is hosting an Open House Thursday, Oct. 18, at the high school. Students will be rehearsing the upcoming production of Little Shop of Horrors on the stage, recording music in McNary’s brand new Studio M recording space, creating music in choir, orchestra and band rooms, working on amazing [...]

McNary instructor takes part in Holocaust Museum Fellowship

By HERB SWETT For the Keizertimes Use of remaining bond funds primarily for repair and renovation of schools was approved at Tuesday’s Salem-Keizer School Board meeting. The available funds from the 2008 bond total about $66.7 million, of which about $42 million would go repair and renovation after allocating $15 million over the next six [...]

Will restore MHS greenhouse for hands-on botany lessons

By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes It’s a lesson she reminds herself of daily when she encounters a difficult student. “Sometimes you have to dig deep, but there’s something to love in every child and they deserve that,” said Donna Wyatt, a Claggett Creek Middle School health teacher. In one recent year, she had [...]