Mac High expects good grad rates for COVID year
McMinnville High School’s graduation and dropout rates are expected to once again exceed state averages, Principal Amy Fast said. The school is projecting a graduation rate above 90% for 2021, at ...
Hughes: Bouncing back from a nasty bout with the coronavirus
Dick Hughes, retired editorial page editor of the Salem Statesman Journal, is a Linfield alum who got his start at the McMinnville News-Register. His Capital Chatter column appears on the Oregon Capital ...
Board to Gov. Brown: End vaccine mandate
Yamhill County commissioners on Thursday voted 2-1 to send a letter to Gov. Kate Brown, asking her to withdraw the state’s vaccine mandate for healthcare workers, school staff and state employees. County ...
Mandate upheld by high court a century ago
In 1901, smallpox broke out in Massachusetts and sparked a battle over vaccine mandates that still resonates today. The Cambridge Board of Health ordered mandatory smallpox vaccinations. Those who refused ...
State reports 550 COVID deaths missed; county announces two new deaths
The Oregon Health Authority on Thursday announced that 550 deaths from COVID-19, most of which took place between May and August, “only became recently known to state epidemiologists due to a technical ...
As state deadline arrives, most county employees prove they’re vaccinated
Monday was the deadline for county employees subject to a state vaccine mandate to either be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, or to have obtained an exception for medical or religious reasons. County ...
County has reported two more deaths from COVID
Yamhill County reported a new death from COVID-19 on Friday, and another on Monday, along with 67 new cases on Monday, spanning the weekend. The county has a cumulative total of 8,585 cases and 111 deaths. A ...
Most McMinnville school employees now vaccinated as deadline nears
About 93% of McMinnville school staff members are vaccinated against coronavirus, and the rest have agreed to precautions, including weekly COVID tests and heavy-duty masks. Personnel Director Steffanie ...
Linfield COVID outbreak involves exempted students
Linfield University says it believes a recent outbreak of COVID-19 that infected 21 students last week is now under control. One person at the university said they had heard “through the grapevine” ...
Pirates break through against rival Amity
DAYTON – With a midseason COVID-incurred cancellation of three matches, it’s been difficult for the Dayton volleyball team to maintain much rhythm this fall. The Pirates started their season ...
Area schools report more than 100 cases
The National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., rang its bells 700 times Tuesday, once for every 1,000 Americans lost to COVID-19 since the pandemic started — 700,000 deaths. In Oregon, 3,867 people ...
Masking issue fuels Amity rally
Caleb Hulett, a third-grader at Amity Elementary, said wearing a mask during the day at school makes him feel light-headed. Eight-year-old Caleb was standing alongside his mother, Jocelyn, at a rally ...
Amity schools now enforcing mask mandate
Parents angry over state rules plan student walkout, rally Complaining that “someone tattled” that Amity School District was not enforcing a statewide school mask mandate, Amity parent Melissa ...
With COVID raging at FCI, conditions deserve a look
The federal prison system is a growth industry with few peers in either the public or private sectors. When Sheridan began trying to sell itself as a future federal prison site in 1981, the system housed ...
