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Salem Kiwanis Club celebrates 100 years of community service
By Shawn Nowlin, shawn.nowlin@ourvalley.org When an organization invests in the community, the possibilities are endless. The Salem Kiwanis Club, established...
Salem Museum’s 23rd Annual Ghost Walk returning in October
East Hill Cemetery comes alive after dark just once a year! The Salem Museum welcomes the living back to the...
OSIG welcomes new medical officer to work with DBHDS
Dr. Jennifer Knips The Virginia Office of the State Inspector General recently announced Dr. Jennifer Knips as its new medical...
Young Roanoke County farmer seriously injured in tractor accident
On Labor Day, Jesse Sowers, a young Roanoke County farmer, was seriously injured while raking hay on a Catawba farm....
Salem Times Calendar
The City of Salem has been monitoring the potential spread of COVID-19, and like you, we have been processing a...
Boy Scouts’ bankruptcy creates rift with religious partners
NEW YORK (AP) — Amid the Boy Scouts of America’s complex bankruptcy case, there is worsening friction between the BSA...
WhatsApp, social posts helped lead Haitian migrants to Texas
DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — For the final leg of his journey from Chile to the United States, Haitian migrant...
One to charge them all: EU demands single plug for phones
LONDON (AP) — The European Union unveiled plans Thursday to require smartphone makers to adopt a single charging method for...
Virginia supreme court rejects redistricting challenge
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Supreme Court of Virginia has rejected a legal challenge to a state law that changes...
COVID-19 creates dire US shortage of teachers, school staff
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — One desperate California school district is sending flyers home in students' lunchboxes, telling parents it's “now hiring." Elsewhere, principals are filling in as crossing guards, teachers are being offered signing bonuses and schools are moving back to online learning. Now that schools have welcomed students back to classrooms, they face a new challenge: a shortage of teachers and staff the likes of which some districts say they have never seen. Public schools have struggled for years with teacher shortages, particularly in math, science, special education and languages. But the coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated the problem. The...
Read moreBoy Scouts’ bankruptcy creates rift with religious partners
NEW YORK (AP) — Amid the Boy Scouts of America’s complex bankruptcy case, there is worsening friction between the BSA and the major religious groups that help it run thousands of scout units. At issue: the churches’ fears that an eventual settlement — while protecting the BSA from future sex-abuse lawsuits...
Read moreWhatsApp, social posts helped lead Haitian migrants to Texas
DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — For the final leg of his journey from Chile to the United States, Haitian migrant Fabricio Jean followed detailed instructions sent to him via WhatsApp from his brother in New Jersey who had recently taken the route to the Texas border. His brother wired him money...
Read moreOne to charge them all: EU demands single plug for phones
LONDON (AP) — The European Union unveiled plans Thursday to require smartphone makers to adopt a single charging method for mobile devices. The European Commission, the bloc’s executive arm, proposed legislation that would mandate USB-C cables for charging, technology that many device makers have already adopted. The main holdout is Apple,...
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Virginia supreme court rejects redistricting challenge
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Supreme Court of Virginia has rejected a legal challenge to a state law that changes how prison inmates are counted for purposes of redistricting. The challenge came from individuals, including southwest Virginia state Sen. Travis Hackworth, who argued that inmates should be counted as residents of...
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WVa lowers vaccination rates because some data counted twice
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia's coronavirus vaccination figures were adjusted sharply lower Wednesday after a problem was identified with data from a federal contractor whose numbers had been double counted. After the error was discovered, the state’s health data was changed to show that 63.7% of people over age 12...
Read moreMcVey appointed WVa insurance commissioner, successor named
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Allan L. McVey has been appointed as West Virginia's insurance commissioner. Gov. Jim Justice announced McVey's appointment Wednesday. McVey fills the vacancy created by the resignation of Jim Dodrill. McVey served as insurance commissioner from March 2017 until his appointment as the Department of Administration's cabinet secretary...
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Apple, Google raise new concerns by yanking Russian app
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Big Tech companies that operate around the globe have long promised to obey local laws and to protect civil rights while doing business. But when Apple and Google capitulated to Russian demands and removed a political-opposition app from their local app stores, it raised worries that two of the...
Read moreUnder Taliban, thriving Afghan music scene heads to silence
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A month after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, the music is starting to go quiet. The last time that the militant group ruled the country, in the late 1990s, it outright banned music. So far this time, the government set up by the Taliban hasn’t taken...
Read moreTrump sues niece, NY Times over records behind ’18 tax story
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday sued his estranged niece and The New York Times over a 2018 story about his family’s wealth and tax practices that was partly based on confidential documents she provided to the newspaper’s reporters. Trump’s lawsuit, filed in state court in New York,...
Read moreBiden to double US global donation of COVID-19 vaccine shots
President Joe Biden is set to announce that the United States is doubling its purchase of Pfizer's COVID-19 shots to share with the world to 1 billion doses as he embraces the goal of vaccinating 70% of the global population within the next year. The stepped-up U.S. commitment is to be...
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