Third-grade student Levi Black cuts out a shape during an art lesson at Salem Heights Elementary School on Oct. 18, 2019. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing free access to its content related to the coronavirus as a community service. Subscriptions help support this. Students in Salem are expected to[Read More…]
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Uncategorized Cherriots to suspend service starting Tuesday as 7 employees test positive for COVID-19
Cherriots bus routes were all still running on Tuesday, March 17 as people waiting at the transit center. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing free access to its content related to the coronavirus as a community service. Subscriptions help support this. Cherriots announced it is suspending its bus service starting[Read More…]
West Salem’s Building Codes Division office closes after four employees test positive for COVID-19
An image of the coronavirus from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing free access to its content related to the coronavirus as a community service. Subscriptions help support this. The state Building Codes Division office in west Salem has closed after four employees tested positive[Read More…]
Willamette Workforce Partnership has been a pipeline between employers and job-seekers. With the economic crisis, it has even more to do
Parker-Llerenas is the executive director of the Willamette Workforce Partnership, an economic development nonprofit that matches businesses with people looking for work. (Jake Thomas/Salem Reporter) NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing free access to its content related to the coronavirus as a community service. Subscriptions help support this. As record numbers of Oregonians[Read More…]
Uncategorized For the first time in 70 years, Salem won’t have an art fair this summer
Customers browse jewelry at the 2019 Salem Art Fair (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing free access to its content related to the coronavirus as a community service. Subscriptions help support this. Salem Art Association is pulling the plug on the 2020 Art Fair and Festival, a major source of[Read More…]
Uncategorized Got questions about coronavirus? Santiam Hospital doctors want to help
Santiam Hospital emergency department medical director Dr. Steve Vets (center, back row, wearing glasses) posts with his federal Disaster Medical Assistance Team deployed to Omaha, Nebraska to care for patients under monitoring for coronavirus in February 2020. (Courtesy/Steve Vets) NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing free access to its content related[Read More…]
Uncategorized Salem-Keizer board will meet virtually Monday to hear the latest on local school closure
The 2019-20 Salem-Keizer School Board (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing free access to its content related to the coronavirus as a community service. Subscriptions help support this. The Salem-Keizer School Board will hold a virtual meeting Monday afternoon to hear updates on the district’s closure during the COVID-19 pandemic.[Read More…]
Uncategorized Amazon worker at Salem warehouse infected with COVID-19
An image of the coronavirus from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing free access to its content related to the coronavirus as a community service. Subscriptions help support this. An employee at Amazon’s massive Salem warehouse recently was diagnosed with with COVID-19. “We are supporting[Read More…]
As Oregon stations lose workers, plea to lift self-service gas ban is answered
Oregon Department of Transportation photo NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing free access to its content related to the coronavirus as a community service. Subscriptions help support this. As the novel coronavirus took hold in Oregon, workers who perform one of life’s most routine jobs – pumping gas – started to panic. In[Read More…]
Uncategorized THE LATEST: Coronavirus news from around Oregon and the NW
Caryn Connoly, left, a Roberts High School teacher, and Courtney Clendening, a Clear Lake Elementary School teacher, load food into a family’s truck at Four Corners Elementary School on March 25, 2020 (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing free access to its content related to the coronavirus as[Read More…]
