Dayton cancels high school, junior high classes due to staff shortages
Dayton School District's high school and junior high will be closed Thursday, Jan. 13, due to staff shortages. The elementary school is open as usual today, but both schools will be closed Friday. Dayton ...
Commissioners push for changes to COVID website
County Commissioners Mary Starrett and Lindsay Berschauer sought on Thursday to add to the information provided by the county’s Public Health website about COVID-19, and include unproven home treatment ...
‘Very difficult decision’: Mac Parks & Rec facilities closed
McMinnville’s aquatic center, community center and senior center are closed as a precaution against the spread of COVID-19. The city made the “very difficult decision to pause” its programs ...
County gives up contact tracing
Yamhill County has given up on contact tracing for people with COVID-19, after more than 10,000 new cases were reported in the state on Friday, and new cases in the state increased more than 300%. The ...
New COVID-19 cases up 140% last week in Oregon
New COVID-19 cases increased 140% in Oregon last week, and hospitalizations rose 57%. The state has set new records for daily cases in recent days: with 3,534 new COVID-19 cases on Dec. 30. On Jan. 4 ...
Students can ‘test to stay’ in classes
Unvaccinated students in the McMinnville School District can “test to stay” in class if they are exposed to someone with COVID-19 at school. If a student tests negative, they can continue ...
Mac hospital stops patient visitors as COVID spreads
Willamette Valley Medical Center announced last week that it is “enforcing a no-visitor policy for all in-patient units and out-patient areas” because of “increased COVID-19 activity ...
County’s positive test rate more than triples in a week
The percentage of positive tests for COVID-19 in Yamhill County shot from 5.8% on Dec. 20 to 21.7% on Dec. 27, and the county reported 100 new cases on Wednesday, Dec. 29, following a report of 87 new ...
2021 in Review Part 1: Vaxes and variants
By early January of 2021, Oregon was in the full grip of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the state was just beginning to distribute vaccines to residents of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. ...
County offers free testing
Yamhill County is offering free COVID-19 testing at the fairgrounds on Lafayette Avenue in McMinnville, every Tuesday and Thursday, from 2 to 7 p.m. Pre-registration is preferred, but not required. People ...
State opens new high volume vaccine sites as Omicron spreads
Thousands of flights were canceled across the country over the long Christmas weekend as the Omicron variant spread with breathtaking speed across the country. The CDC reported that average daily new ...
Region’s hospitals back to zero ICU beds
Although the Biden administration has continued to assure Americans they can still hold holiday gatherings if they are vaccinated, the World Health Organization asked people not to. “There ...
Starrett and Berschauer object to tightening mask provision
As health experts warn of a massive surge in COVID-19 cases hitting the United States because of the extreme transmissibility of the new Omicron variant, Yamhill County’s two majority rule commissioners ...
Omicron set to massively overwhelm hospitals still reeling from Delta
The Omicron variant is on track to eclipse the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations seen in September in Oregon during the Delta variant surge. Hospitals are still overwhelmed and unprepared for such a ...
Yamhill County exceeds 10,000 cases since start of pandemic
Yamhill County reached a milestone this week, when the total number of county residents who have had COVID-19 surpassed 10,000. In the same week, deaths in the county reached 152, deaths in the United ...
