This is one of the biggest weekends of the year in Salem — if not the biggest.

It’s Olde Salem Days weekend.

We’ll be posting lots of photos from the festival this weekend — both ours and, well, yours, too, if you’d like to share. (And we hope you will!)

Until then, well, as usual, we have lots of online extras already to go with this week’s print edition. And here they are:

* Police report three burglaries in Salem
* Pam Mears shares photo of bear in backyard
* Fellowship Community Church holds middle school lock-in Sept. 18
* Photos from Lewis-Gale anniversary celebration — the photo above is from that gallery, in fact. Katie Booth gets a dragon painted on her face by her dad, Bobby Booth, with Ziggy’s Entertainment
* More photos from the Greater Griffith Open
* More photos from the opening of Gobbler Gear
* More photos of fans at Salem Red Sox games

AND IN SPORTS . . .
* More photos from Salem-Lord Botetourt football
* More photos from Glenvar-James River football
* Glenvar’s Scott Obenchain eagles on his 18th birthday
* More photos from Glenvar Dragons vs. Glenvar Steam
* Photos of Glenvar vs. Masons Cove youth soccer
* Photos of Salem Red Sox players celebrating after clinching playoff spot
* Photos of Salem band, flag corps and cheerleaders at season opener
* Photos of Salem and Glenvar volleyball
* Photos of East Salem Patriot cheerleaders
* Photos of Salem man with an “awesome” bass
* More photos from the Salem football jamboree — from Ed Sweeney and Hank Ebert
* More photos from Andrew Lewis Middle School volleyball

So how can you get your news and photos in So Salem? Easy! You can share at news@sosalem.com.

For more information on us — and how to advertise and reach more than 90 percent of the households in Salem and western Roanoke County -- see below:

* You can meet our community journalist for Salem and western Roanoke County — Miranda Adkins. She keeps regular hours at our Salem “bureau” — at Mill Mountain Coffee and Tea on Main Street. Here’s her schedule.

* Want to keep up with us in other ways? You can join our “fan group” on Facebook or become one of our “followers” on Twitter. Just search for “sosalem” and you’ll find us.

* So how do we reach 90 percent of the households in Salem and western Roanoke County? Here’s how: Subscribers to The Roanoke Times get it included in their Friday paper; non-subscribers have it mailed to them as part of the weekly Simply Savings advertising flier. Those two add up to more than 90 percent. Plus, we have some free copies available at Kroger, Food Lion, the Salem Y, and the Salem Mill Mountain Coffee & Tea, in case we somehow missed you.

* Are you an advertiser who wants to get your message to more than 90 percent of the households in Salem and western Roanoke County? You can find out more at advertise@sosalem.com. Want to place a classified ad to reach your Salem neighbors? We’re at classifieds@sosalem.com