Salem, Oregon News
Uncategorized Students eat breakfast on the first day of school in September 2019 at Bush Elementary School. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) The 351,000 Oregon students who normally receive free or reduced-price meals at school will receive extra food stamps to cover the value of those meals while schools are closed. Oregon last[Read More…]
Uncategorized A snapshot of Marion County’s COVID-19 heatmap on May 4, 2020. Marion County again saw a jump in residents testing positive for COVID-19 over the weekend, with no clear epicenter. Sixty-five people in the county had a positive test come back between May 1 and May 4, data from Marion[Read More…]
Uncategorized A snapshot of Marion County’s COVID-19 heatmap from Friday, May 1, 2020. Marion County remains the epicenter of Oregon’s COVID-19 outbreak, with twice as many cases per capita as the state average. Salem Reporter is publishing data from state, county and other sources regularly to provide the latest information in[Read More…]
Uncategorized ARCHES project outreach workers Ali Stephens, left, and Lucy Briseno talk with motel resident Diane Murphy about a newly instituted curfew at a Salem motel being used to house the homeless on Thursday, April 9. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Oregon’s Bureau of Labor and Industries is investigating complaints that nearly a[Read More…]
Uncategorized Sarah Kirk stands next to a high performance liquid chromotography system in her lab at Willamette University. Kirk will spearhead a research project funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate treatment for a hereditary eye disease. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) A Willamette University chemistry professor is[Read More…]
Uncategorized Andrea Davila, a nurse at the Kaiser Permanente North Lancaster clinic administers a test for COVID-19 at the clinic’s drive-thru testing site on Wednesday, April 29. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) The existing health conditions of Oregonians play a significant role in the impact of COVID-19, according to a new state analysis[Read More…]
Uncategorized Kids celebrate Oregon’s 161st birthday on February 15, 2020 with hands-on activities in the Oregon State Capitol rotunda. (Courtesy Joel Zak/Oregon State Capitol Foundation) Oregon’s Capitol may be closed to the public, but you can still take a look around it from the comfort of your living room. The virtual[Read More…]
Uncategorized A snapshot of Marion County’s heatmap showing COVID-19 hotspots by ZIP code as of April 27, 2020. Nearly 30 Woodburn residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since April 24, showing the virus continues to spread in one of the most vulnerable populations of Marion County. Over half of Marion County[Read More…]
New summer Class of 2019 graduates face their families and supporters after a ceremony at West Salem High School (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Students from the Class of 2020 were loud and clear: they want to walk across a graduation stage. After talking with senior class leaders and high school principals[Read More…]
Seen through a sliding glass door, Noah Hall, wife Jessica and children Evan, 6, and Ruby, 2, sit at the kitchen table of their Salem home on Wednesday, April 23. The Halls are both elementary school teachers who are currently teaching classes from phone via video while also caring for[Read More…]
