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Legislative leaders announced a deal Monday to fix a $527 million hole in the state budget by nixing major tax hikes, cutting some spending, increasing borrowing and delaying payments.
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West Salem Public Works Director Wade Peterson has resigned after 11 years with the village.
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FEATURES |
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It might take about 750 pairs of tiny hands, but the result is one enormous and lasting message.
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OPINION |
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In the late 1930s, when I was a middle school student in West Salem, we were subjected to the last vestiges of the totally discredited corporal punishment practices for the management of student behavior.
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SCHOOL |
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The laptops were out in force last Friday at Western Technical College as 85 electronics students from 12 area high schools tried to coax robots representing their respective schools through a series of intricate maneuvers.
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OBITUARIES |
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Donald R. ‘Don’ Mattie Sr. | Judith R. Schaller | Shirley Fruechte | David Bechtold Hoff |
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For the week of April 25 through March 2, the West Salem Police Department wrote six traffic citations, wrote two municipal citations and issued three warnings. The following is a selection of incidents.
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 | ROBOT WORLD: West Salem High School's Marek Hevasi lines up three robots that he and fellow students in a technology class programmed to "dance" to the song "Mr. Roboto." Their demonstration was one of the high points of the Robot Challenge at Western Technical College. For the complete story on the Robot Challenge, see the school section below.
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