Salem, Oregon News
Uncategorized 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) Long-term care facilities are continuing to drive case counts in Marion County, with two facilities reporting new outbreaks in the last week, according to the latest[Read More…]
Luke Clifton, Esha Puri and Pranav Ramesh stand in front of South Salem High School. The three rising seniors set up the free tutoring program, Connect Oregon Students, to assist K-12 students with distance learning. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) South Salem High School seniors Esha Puri, Luke Clifton and Pranav Ramesh[Read More…]
Uncategorized Katrina Rothenberger, incident commander, stands in the COVID-19 incident command at the Marion County Health and Human Services office on Monday, July 13. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Marion County epidemiologists have linked about 30 cases of coronavirus in the past two weeks to social gatherings like potlucks and bachelorette parties after[Read More…]
A chart comparing unemployment in Oregon caused by the pandemic to the Great Recession. (Courtesy/Oregon Employment Department) Relief is on the way for more self-employed Oregonians affected by the pandemic as the state Employment Department has cleared a goal. During a Wednesday press call, Oregon Employment Department Acting Director David[Read More…]
Uncategorized Gibson Hanowell, left, and Leo Elkington, right, warm up during a cross country practice in Bush’s Pasture Park in early August. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) Cross country runners, soccer and volleyball players won’t start their season until March under new guidelines released by the Oregon School Activities Association Wednesday. Athletes will[Read More…]
The school district salon at the Career Technical Education Center awaits both students and customers. (Moriah Ratner/Special to Salem Reporter) As Salem-Keizer teachers and principals prepare for remote classes, Rhonda Rhodes has more unusual questions than the average administrator. She’s the principal of the district’s Career Technical Education Center, a[Read More…]
Uncategorized 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, Oregon[Read More…]
Uncategorized Work continues on the Gerry Frank / Salem Rotary Club Amphitheater at Salem’s Riverfront Park on Aug. 4, 2020 (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter) The city of Salem is one month in to site work for the future home of the Gerry Frank Salem Rotary Amphitheater, a new performing arts and event[Read More…]
Santiam Brewing co-owner Jim Smiley, left, delivers a food and drink order to the home of Dan Valles on Friday, April 10. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) When Salem residents were stuck at home during the pandemic shut-down order, Santiam Brewing started making house calls. Jim Smiley, the co-owner of Santiam Brewery,[Read More…]
A graph showing the percent change in the Salem area’s private sector employment from Februay 2020. (Source: Oregon Employment Department) The pandemic-related shutdown of the economy will go into the record books with a lot of “firsts” and we’ve just seen another one. The unemployment rate in the Salem area[Read More…]
