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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…]

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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…]

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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…]

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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…]