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Uncategorized Gov. Kate Brown listens to an update from the state Employment Department during a revenue briefing on Monday, April 20. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing free access to its content related to the coronavirus as a community service. Subscriptions help support this. TEXT OF PREPARED REMARKS by[Read More…]
Uncategorized Oregon Health Authority director Pat Allen sits in his office on Monday, April 20. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing free access to its content related to the coronavirus as a community service. Subscriptions help support this. TEXT OF PREPARED REMARKS by Pat Allen: PANDEMIC IMPACTS The Governor[Read More…]
Uncategorized NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing free access to its content related to the coronavirus as a community service. Subscriptions help support this. TEXT OF PREPARED REMARKS by Dr. David Zonies: PANDEMIC MEDICAL CARE My name is David Zonies, and I’m the associate chief medical officer and medical director for adult[Read More…]
Gov. Kate Brown listens to an update from the state Employment Department during a revenue briefing on Monday, April 20. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing free access to its content related to the coronavirus as a community service. Subscriptions help support this. Saying the pandemic situation in[Read More…]
Courthouse Club Fitness in west Salem. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) UPDATE: This story has been updated with additional information from Oregon OSHA documents. Courthouse Club Fitness has been fined a total of $90,000 for keeping four its Salem area gyms open in defiance of state orders intended to control rising Covid[Read More…]
Uncategorized Senior library assistant Armando Trujillo wheels the Salem Public Library’s curbside pickup cart outside for patrons on Aug. 26 (Courtesy/Salem Public Library) The Salem Public Library has suspended its curbside book service so employees can fully work from home as local Covid case numbers continue rising. As of Nov. 24,[Read More…]
New Covid cases have climbed rapidly in Marion County in recent weeks, prompting Gov. Kate Brown to declare the county at “extreme risk” (Graphic by Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Marion and Polk counties will have to live under stringent limits on businesses and gatherings beyond next week as Gov. Kate Brown[Read More…]
Tom Fohn, executive director of the Elsinore Theatre, stands on stage next to the theatre’s ghost light on Monday, Nov. 23. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) The performance venue at the Elsinore Theatre is in danger of closing for good unless enough money is raised to keep it going. Ticket sales cover[Read More…]
Lupe Alvarez (right), the owner of Dough Hook Bake Shop, and her employee Lupe “Lupita” Ortiz (left) stands in front of the plastic shield installed as a Covid precaution. (Jake Thomas/Salem Reporter) When much of the Salem economy was shut down in March because of the pandemic, Tino Land told[Read More…]
DevNW is hoping to turn Evergreen Church into 19 units of affordable housing. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) A former church in a downtown Salem neighborhood will be remodeled into apartments after action by the Salem City Council Monday that won’t please some area residents. By a 7-1 vote, the council backed[Read More…]
