PHOTO BY MEG HIBBERT Ginny Savage Ayers signs a copy of the book her father, Lon Savage, started and she...

PHOTO BY MEG HIBBERTSalem Parks & Recreation Director John Shaner, with back to the camera, explainsto members of the Salem...

PHOTO BY MEG HIBBERTNew American citizen Edgar Ornelas, formerly fromMexico, holds his 4-month-old daughter, Gia, after hewas sworn in as...

PHOTO BY MEG HIBBERTGreenway Commission Director Liz Belcher and Salem CityCouncilman Bill Jones listen to discussion during a worksession before...

Salem resident Timothy Cannaday. Dale Smith Dale Smith was never an idle person, and neither were the 23 people who...

PHOTO BY MIKE STEVENS, CITY OF SALEM COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR Salem Fire and EMS Chief John Prillaman speaks at a regional...

Hurricane Florence changed its plans to come to Salem this week, but Gov. Ralph Northam made the announcement anyway. Salem...

For almost half of her life, writer Mary Carter Bishop grew up believing she was her parents’ only child. Then...

PHOTO BY MEG HIBBERTSalem resident Christine Young looks over an early map of Salem’s firstsubdivisions during Alex Burke’s lunch talk...

PHOTO COURTESY OF SALEM MUSEUM.Jane Hough, first woman elected toSalem City Council. Jane Hough was the first lady of Salem....