In a spray of water, a Mallard Duck gets a running start while taking off from the Willamette River near Riverfront Park (John Svendsen/Special to Salem Reporter)
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Uncategorized Bulk of CARES money has gone to payroll reimbursement locally
Katrina Rothenberger, incident commander, holds up an activity log at the Marion County Health and Human Services COVID-19 incident command on Monday, July 13. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Before the pandemic, Susan McLauchlin supervised Marion County’s health promotion and prevention team. The team worked with members of the community to help prevent suicide,[Read More…]
Uncategorized QUICK READ: Low rates of Covid in Salem’s unsheltered, whiplash from school reopening rules
Tent sites at Wallace Marine Park on Wednesday, May 27. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) [ NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing this information free as a community service. You can support dissemination by subscribing. ] Local health providers see low rates of Covid in Salem’s unsheltered population One Salem population appears to be[Read More…]
Uncategorized Goodwill loss prevention officer stabbed by alleged shoplifter
A Salem man is being charged with attempted murder after allegedly stabbing a loss prevention officer at the west Salem Goodwill while trying to shoplift Friday morning. Sean Graham, 49, was stealing items from Goodwill and stabbed the store’s loss prevention officer, 33-year-old Matthew Thompson, when he detained him around[Read More…]
Uncategorized DATA: Hospitalizations up, new cases down in Marion and Polk counties
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) [ NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing this information free as a community service. You can support dissemination by subscribing. ] The number[Read More…]
Uncategorized YOUR QUESTIONS: How will staff and families be able to get tests done quickly if in-person school returns?
[ NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing this information free as a community service. You can support dissemination by subscribing. ] Salem Reporter turned to various experts to find out answers to questions from readers ranging from how many people are asymptomatic to who can get tested. The Marion County Health Department,[Read More…]
AROUND OREGON: Another Oregon county is sent back to a step as virus spreads
Gov. Kate Brown (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) [ NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing this information free as a community service. You can support dissemination by subscribing. ] ONTARIO – The unrelenting spread of the coronavirus in Malheur County prompted Gov. Kate Brown on Thursday to move the community back a level in[Read More…]
Uncategorized Glass artist uses her work to escape the stress of Covid
Salem glass artist Daryle Ryder. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Daryle Ryder’s two car garage is packed with handmade shelving containing jars and sheets of glass. Inside her studio, Ryder picked up her latest creation – glass flowers she attached to metal stakes to turn into yard decorations. It was a class[Read More…]
Uncategorized AROUND OREGON: After county shuts down his corn cart, McMinville teen garners community support
A McMinnville teenager who tried to sell spicy corn on the cob from a cart, only to be shut down by county health officials, has received an outpouring of community support for his entrepreneurial efforts. (Marcus Larson/News-Register) A McMinnville teenager who tried to sell spicy corn on the cob from[Read More…]
Some Oregon superintendents, parents report ‘whiplash’ as state school reopening rules change again
Salem-Keizer superintendent Christy Perry talks during a virtual school board meeting on Tuesday, April 14. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) [ NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing this information free as a community service. You can support dissemination by subscribing. ] Salem-Keizer Superintendent Christy Perry was preparing for a school board meeting Aug. 11[Read More…]
