Tag: CORONAVIRUS: LIFE IN OREGON

In rural Oregon, eagerness to get back to normal means barbers in masks, diners at distant tables

Tanya Navarrete, marketing and development director at Four Rivers Cultural Center, hands out make and care kits at the center Saturday, April 18. (The Enterprise/Yadira Lopez) VALE – Residents of Malheur County could be having dinner at restaurants and getting haircuts again under a plan to ease state restrictions week[Read More…]

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Oregon begins accepting unemployment claims for self-employed and gig workers

Salem’s Capitol Mall park, deserted on Friday, March 27, 2020 around 9 a.m., during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Oregon began accepting jobless claims from self-employed and gig workers Tuesday, a little more than a month after President Donald Trump signed a law making those workers eligible for benefits.[Read More…]