The holiday season kicked off in Salem Friday night with the return of the fourth annual downtown holiday parade .

Salem was aglow as folkloric dancers performed, musicians played and Santa joined Mayor Julie Hoy to light a Christmas tree.

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Ron Cooper

Photographer Ron Cooper and his wife Penny moved to Salem in 1969 to take a job as photographer at the Oregon Statesman (later the Statesman Journal). Their three childr

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