A graph of the average annual all-industry wages of several areas in Oregon. (Courtesy/Pam Ferrara) The Salem area unemployment rate came down by a bit more than a percentage point from June to July, a smaller drop than the three points from May to June. As a result, 3,000 people[Read More…]
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Uncategorized Salem police scanners go quiet after system enters the digital age
A Salem police car. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Rubbernecks wanting to know about the latest police activity won’t be able to turn the dial of their radios to hear police chatter after Salem’s public safety agencies transitioned to a digital radio system this year. The Salem Police Department scanner traffic is[Read More…]
Uncategorized Woodburn drive-through testing event finds most people positive for Covid show no symptoms
A Covid-19 test swab is packaged up to be tested during a free drive-through testing clinic at Woodburn Ambulance Service on Tuesday, August 25. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) [ NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing this information free as a community service. You can support dissemination by subscribing. ] A mass coronavirus testing[Read More…]
Easy solutions are few as employers and working parents prepare for online school
School hallway at Stevens Middle School (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) When schools closed in March due to the Covid pandemic, Trish Straw was one of the luckier parents. A mental health associate at Marion County who serves as president of the employees’ union, Straw had six weeks of paid leave she[Read More…]
Willamette University reporting few Covid cases since reopening one week ago
Two people walk through Willamette University on May 15. 2020. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) [ NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing this information free as a community service. You can support dissemination by subscribing. ] Willamette University has had one student and two employees test positive for Covid since students returned to campus[Read More…]
Uncategorized With school moving online, Polk County expands faster internet access to rural areas
Polk County Courthouse (Courtesy of Jolene Guzman/Polk Itemizer-Observer) Remote corners of Polk County will get improved internet access under a $1 million project that will allow more rural children to better connect to schools. The county is using a share of its federal pandemic funding to install broadband infrastructure in[Read More…]
New report shows Oregon taking conservative path to classrooms
An empty classroom at Stevens Middle School on Aug. 18, 2020 (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) [ NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing this information free as a community service. You can support dissemination by subscribing. ] About 2% of school employees and 1% of students would become infected with Covid between September and[Read More…]
BUSINESS ROUND UP: More cash for unemployed. New restaurant. Theater closes. Future of work.
Oregon Employment Department. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) EXTRA CASH. An additional $300 a week is on its way to Oregonians collecting unemployment benefits. The Oregon Employment Department announced on Friday that its application was approved for a federal program intended to help make up the gap between what Oregonians’ are getting[Read More…]
AROUND OREGON: OHSU drops massive coronavirus study, citing lack of minority involvement
Viviana Gourley, medical assistant at Salud Medical Center, waits between patients at the center’s COVID-19 testing area on Wednesday, April 29. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) A study intended to track the coronavirus in Oregon and understand its impacts on minorities is now dead after Oregon Health & Science University, which lead[Read More…]
Uncategorized PHOTOS: With a namesake amphitheater in mid-construction, a Salem legacy gets his first glance
Gerry Frank, Oregon legacy and Salem resident, was the guest of Salem Rotary on Friday, Aug. 28, at the construction site of the Gerry Frank Salem Rotary Amphitheater. It was the 96-year-old Frank’s first look at the site since construction began in Salem’s Riverfront Park. (Ron Cooper/Special to Salem Reporter)[Read More…]
