Positioning for business recovery

There will be no shortage of opportunities for Keizer residents to support community causes in the coming weeks. Fund raising event season is here. Whatever you want to support there is something for you on the calendar through April. On Saturday, March 2, Clear Lake Elementary School will hold a Fiesta Dinner and Auction at [...]

The $510,000 repair and maintenance wish list that was presented to the Keizer Parks and Recreation Advisory Board earlier this month has heads being scratched all over town. “How can that be?” asked many people.  How can it be that so many things at Keizer Little League Park seem to have fallen into disrepair? In [...]

Keizer Police Chief H. Marc Adams has said he will retire at the end of this year. When he leaves office in Decmeber it will be the end of a good era at the police department. Adams became Keizer’s top cop in 1997 after serving the same role in Coos Bay for five years. He [...]

Former Oregon Attorney General John Kroger’s drive to open and keep open public records should not be squelched. Since the Watergate era in the mid-1970s, Oregon has a good track record of maintaining open records for public bodies and public institutions. Open records are vital to a strong democracy, they allow the public to see [...]

A Box of Soap by Don vowell  We have just been treated to all the media-saturated sound and fury of two Congressional hearings.  In one Congressional hearing, then-Secretary of State Hilary Clinton was asked why she failed to prevent the loss of four American lives at the Consulate in Benghazi, situated in one of the [...]

The conference center at the Keizer Civic Center has been a success and it operates as it was designed. Mayor Lore Christopher and other city leaders envisioned the conference center to be a space to be used both for community organizations to use and as a generator of revenue from other groups. This week the [...]

It says it right in the city motto: pride, spirit and volunteerism. All three traits can be found in the awards presented by the Keizer Chamber of Commerce on Saturday, January 26. Each year the Chamber honors and bestows awards on Keizer’s First Citizen, the Merchant of the Year, and the Service to Education Award. [...]

Burglaries are keeping the Keizer Police Department busy. There have been a rash of break-ins recently including at four local dentist’s offices in the past week. Keizer Police’s part-time Crime  Analyst Cara Steele is on the job. Hopefully she can deduce if there is enough of a pattern to determine the same culprits in all [...]

A person who recently traveled through Keizer commented on how many businesses there were along the main arterials from downtown Salem to Keizer. She was amazed—to her it seemed there were more businesses than one might normally see in cities this size. Her perception is important. We want visitors to see the many businesses that [...]