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 Ken LeDuc, who joined the Keizer City Council in January, has resigned. LeDuc, who got into a heated argument with fellow councilor Dennis Koho during a budget committee meeting Thursday evening, posted a short resignation notice on his Facebook page late Friday morning, May 10. He also sent 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 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 Laura Donaldson and Aerial Rice, both members of the Lady Celts’ 4×100 relay team, had been looking forward to a race with Sprague High School all week. It was set for Wednesday past press time, but Sprague’s relay team is the Celts’ closest consistent competitor in the Central [...]

John P. Rizzo has announced his candidacy for the Keizer Fire District Board Position No. 1 in the May 21 election. “My interest in this is to support and pay back for all the assistance I received during my law enforcement career from fire rescue professionals,” said Rizzo, who first became a state trooper in [...]

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 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 [...]