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The trees are more than 100 years old and causing damage in the basement of a unique Salem house.

With no incumbents running for re-election, voters will be picking a brand new line-up for half of Salem City Council and Salem mayor.

The city of Salem, Oregon ordered a local private business to remove a mural featuring a patriotic display of the flag-raising at Iwo Jima during WWII.

A patriotic mural painted on a Salem business ignited questions and controversy this week.

Oregon white oaks are iconic trees in the Willamette Valley. Sure, they're more sturdy than sexy with their gnarled branches twisting from stout trunks and canopies of leaves budding from broad crowns, but they are noticed and appreciated in parks, on farms and vineyards, and at private residences. And, they're protected in Salem by city ordinance. Despite their historical and cultural value to this community and the region, they've been vanishing from the landscape for the past two centuries. Many of our old white oaks were hit hard by the recent ice storm, and two professors at Willamette ...