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…]
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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…]
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…]
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…]
For Konditorei, pandemic layers on challenges as business opens and closes
Gerry Frank’s Konditorei plans to open again on Monday, Aug. 17 – the pandemic willing. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) [ NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing this information free as a community service. You can support dissemination by subscribing. ] “I’m getting a little irritated by this whole thing,” said Linae Sielicky, co-owner[Read More…]
YOUR QUESTIONS: What share of people testing positive for Covid exhibit symptoms?
[ 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…]
Corban, Willamette universities will open for in-person classes Aug. 24
Two people walk through Willamette University on May 15. 2020. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) As Salem six-year-olds prepare to learn to read over Zoom, more than one thousand local college students will be back inside classrooms and dorms this fall. Willamette and Corban, both small private universities, are planning for in-person classes[Read More…]
Keizer In-N-Out Burger is the latest workplace to report a Covid outbreak locally
An image of the coronavirus from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [ NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing this information free as a community service. You can support dissemination by subscribing. ] In-N-Out Burger is the latest Marion County workplace to report a Covid outbreak. The Keizer location of[Read More…]