A group of teens with Camp Fire Central Oregon is organizing a monthly ‘safe space’ for teens dealing with isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Counseling, socialization and care packages are planned.
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Two Bend pickleball courts, Pickleball Zone and Widgi Creek Pickleball, have been closed until Nov. 12 due to an increase in COVID-19 cases in the pickleball community.
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COVID-19 has claimed four more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 705, along with 597 new cases, the Oregon Health Authority reported Wednesday.
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Residents of Regency Village Assisted Living in Bend created a ‘COVID friendship quilt’ out of 542 tongue depressors. Everyone living in the facility contributed to the project.
Continue Reading COVID-19 has claimed nine more lives in Oregon, including a 47-year-old Jefferson County woman, raising the state’s death toll to 701,along with 495 new cases, the Oregon Health Authority reported Tuesday.
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More than 2,000 people have been approved to receive benefits under a new state program that helps people who work in Oregon and need to quarantine or isolate due to COVID-19 exposure, but do not have access to COVID-19-related paid sick leave.
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A rise in Deschutes County COVID-19 cases is further delaying reopening of in-person classes for Bend-La Pine Schools, even under the new state metrics released last week, an official told families on Monday.
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The Pavilion ice rink in Bend closed early in the spring, because of COVID-19, but now it’s back for this winter season.
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NeighborImpact’s mobile food bank serves the Redmond community twice a month. Those in need are able to pick up a week’s worth of groceries from the Redmond High School parking lot.
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Ricardo Orazetti of Bend will not serve any jail time after pleading guilty to removing COVID-19 restriction signage from Quail Park in Bend last May.
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COVID-19 has claimed another life in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 692, along with 557 new cases, the Oregon Health Authority reported Monday.
Continue Reading COVID-19 has claimed two more lives in Oregon, including the second Crook County woman in two days, raising the state’s death toll to 691, along with 524 new cases, the Oregon Health Authority reported Sunday.
Continue Reading COVID-19 has claimed 14 more lives in Oregon, including a Crook County woman, raising the state’s death toll to 689, along with 555 new cases, the Oregon Health Authority reported Saturday.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — With COVID-19 cases recently surging and the weather getting cooler, the Oregon Health Authority urges Oregonians to rethink holiday traditions to celebrate safely and still enjoy the season. Along with the “three w’s” —wear a face covering, wash your hands frequently and watch your distance—OHA encourages everyone to participate in lower-risk activities to keep all Oregonians
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Despite two straight days of record COVID-19 case numbers, Gov. Kate Brown and other state officials on Friday unveiled new, more flexible guidelines for more — but not all — students to return to classrooms.
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The Crook County School District said students will stay in the classrooms, thanks to new COVID-19 metrics announced Friday by Governor Kate Brown.
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The staff at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend thought of a fun way to connect with kids for Halloween on Friday. Parents and students drove by as faculty in costume handed out holiday treats and treasures. Meanwhile, teachers at R.E. Jewell Elementary school dressed up and toured neighborhoods aboard the ‘Boo Bus,’ so that
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In late July, the City of Bend allocated $500,000 to United Way of Central Oregon to assist vulnerable populations in the Bend community. The funding came from state-directed Coronavirus Relief Funds, which were part of the federal CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security) Act.
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Despite rising, record daily COVID-19 case numbers, Gov. Kate Brown and other state officials unveiled new, more flexible and complex school reopening metrics Friday, with a goal of returning many more students to classrooms, noting that recent data shows they are not the “super-spreader” locations many fear.
Continue Reading COVID-19 has claimed two more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 675, while there have been 600 new cases, hitting yet another daily record, the Oregon Health Authority reported Friday.
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