Marion News

West Salem resident Amy Wadsworth held her daughter, Sawyer, 3, on her lap while she filled out forms to get the H1N1, or swine flu, vaccine.

A steer was struck by a car and left on a southeast Marion County road Tuesday night, officials said.

Whether it's a booming or busting economy, people still have to eat. During the latter, more people need help feeding their families.

Edward L. "Ned" Clark Jr., a former president of the Oregon State Bar and a pioneer in land-use planning for Marion and Polk counties, has died.

John Kroger will review his first months as Oregon's 16th attorney general during a talk at the next Marion County DemoForum.

Diana Mendez, 6, gets an H1N1 flu mist administered Oct. 14 by North Marion School District nurse Christine Imdieke.

A woman's leg was run over after she jumped out of a car Saturday evening in Marion, deputies say.

The jobless rate in the Salem area has nudged higher, rising from 11.5 percent in August to 11.6 percent in September.

Saturday was an interesting day for two sheriff's deputies in rural Jefferson , about halfway between Eugene and Portland.

Local emergency dispatchers reported Marion and Polk county roadways free of crashes and other traffic-blocking problems.

Two smaller school districts will be among the first local recipients of H1N1 flu vaccine, and they could be setting up clinics for students during the week of Oct.

As unemployment persists, hunger is rising significantly, according to statistics presented by the Marion-Polk Food Share at a forum here Tuesday.

Search and Rescue Team-18, a youth-based wilderness search and rescue squad, has begun its annual recruitment effort and is looking for Marion and Polk county-area youths to join the Salem-based team.

Here's other opportunities to enjoy the outdoors this week: thursday -Get together with Cascade Paddlers, an unstructured group of canoers and kayakers who go on outings and activities on a variety of waters, 6:30 to 8 p.m., Boon's Treasury, 888 Liberty St.

For five years, doctors volunteering for the Salem Free Medical Clinic saw patients inside makeshift cubicles cobbled out of plastic pipes, sheets and bungee cords set up inside a middle school gym.

After falling for two consecutive months, the unemployment rate in Marion and Polk counties rose in August.

According to a survey of garbage haulers, recycling and composting companies, Marion County leads the state in recycling efforts with a recovery rate of 58.4 percent for 2009.

As filing opened last week for the May 18 primary election - which will determine who will be in the general election of Nov.

Oregon Food Bank gave out almost 900,000 emergency food boxes last year, a record number pushed higher by the recession's effect on family budgets.

Marion County families eligible for food stamps can win up to $100 in free groceries in a 'food makeover' kind of contest.