An outbreak of 29 cases of COVID-19 has been reported at Good Shepherd Health Care System in Umatilla County. The case count includes all persons linked to the outbreak, which may include household members and other close contacts to an employee. WEDNESDAY, Aug. 12. — COVID-19 has claimed seven more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 375,…
Month: August 2020
Oregon reports 302 new COVID-19 cases; 16 in Umatilla County
Outbreak reported at Smith Frozen Foods in Weston TUESDAY, Aug. 11 — COVID-19 has claimed 11 more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 368, the Oregon Health Authority reported at 12:01 a.m. today. Oregon Health Authority reported 302 new confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19 as of 12:01 a.m. today, bringing the state total to 21,774. The…
Native American Activists See Purpose with Black Lives Matter
By Brian Bull/Opinion for Underscore For more than a century, “The Pioneer” stood tall on his pedestal on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene. With his bushy beard, boots, and buckskin, he struck many Oregonians as the embodiment of frontier courage and determination, representative of settlers who traveled thousands of miles to tame the Wild West and build a…
Oregon reports 227 new COVID-19 cases; 15 in Umatilla County
Oregon reports 227 new confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases, 1 new death MONDAY, Aug. 10 — COVID-19 has claimed one more life in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 357, the Oregon Health Authority reported at 12:01 a.m. today. Oregon Health Authority reported 227 new confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19 as of 12:01 a.m. today bringing the state…
Driver intentionally strikes, kills six pronghorn antelope near Christmas Valley, Ore.
August 6, 2020 CHRISTMAS VALLEY, Ore. — Six pronghorn antelope run down with a pickup truck on a roadway in Lake County on April 26 are the latest in a string of poaching thrill kills in Oregon. The driver, Michael Scott Phillips, 48, of Christmas Valley, told authorities that he did it because he hates pronghorn. Oregon State Police Fish…
CTUIR Language Program awarded NEH CARES grant
Mission, OR. – The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation Language Program has been awarded a grant of $125,000 from a National Endowment for the Humanities program funded by the CARES Act. Their grant project is to create video-recorded oral histories from Tribal elders about pandemics and natural disasters previously experienced on the reservation and ceded lands. The funding…
Oregon reports 263 new COVID-19 cases; 40 in Umatilla County
SUNDAY, Aug. 9 — COVID-19 has claimed one more life in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 356, the Oregon Health Authority reported at 12:01 a.m. today. Oregon Health Authority reported 263 new confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19 as of 12:01 a.m. today, bringing the state total to 21,272. The new cases are in the following counties: Clackamas…
OHA Releases Weekly Testing Summary
Today, OHA released its Weekly Testing Summary, showing 35,424 test results were reported during the week of July 26 – Aug. 1. Of those test results 2,174 were positive, indicating a test positivity of 6.1 percent, one of the highest rates observed since the early pandemic. The most recent weekly in-state theoretical testing capacity estimate is 48,000 tests for the…
Oregon reports 272 new COVID-19 cases; 64 in Umatilla County
PORTLAND, Ore. — COVID-19 has claimed two more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 328, the Oregon Health Authority reported at 12:01 a.m. today. Oregon Health Authority reported 272 new confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19 as of 12:01 a.m. today bringing the state total to 19,366. The new cases are in the following counties: Baker (3),…
Gov. Kate Brown says COVID-19 spike, political stalemate led to the Umatilla County rollback
This story was published Saturday, Aug. 1, in the East Oregonian. By GARY A. WARNER, For the Oregon Capital Bureau SALEM — Rapidly rising COVID-19 infections, an ominous public health report, and a political stalemate led to Gov. Kate Brown’s unprecedented late-night order rolling back the reopening of Umatilla County. “It was clear (Thursday, July 30) that if we did…