This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Credit: Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAM SALEM – As of Sunday morning, the number of presumed positive cases of the novel coronavirus in Oregon rose to 14, according to the Oregon[Read More…]
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Washington County adopts emergency declaration to address coronavirus
This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Credit: Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAM HILLSBORO – In a bid to ensure that Washington County personnel can act quickly to contain the further spread of the novel coronavirus causing the[Read More…]
Banks School District: No plans yet to close or cancel school or activities during coronavirus outbreak
Photo: Chas Hundley OREGON – Have you heard? The coronavirus, COVID-19, is in Oregon. In fact, people who have are presumed to have the coronavirus have been in Hillsboro, in Lake Oswego, Walla Walla and probably elsewhere throughout the state and county. In Washington, 9 people have died from COVID-19,[Read More…]
State Rep. Tiffiny Mitchell completes living kidney donation
Rep. Mitchell speaks to western Washington County residents at a Dec 12 2018 CPO meeting in Gales Creek. Photo: Chas Hundley Oregon State Representative Tiffiny Mitchell (D-Astoria, District 32) announced via email newsletter that on October 16 she completed the process of becoming a living kidney donor. Rep. Mitchell documented[Read More…]
Ban on flavored nicotine-based vape products halted by Oregon Court of Appeals
Photo of a vaping device that can be used for nicotine or cannabis from reader Kylee Rayne Reichow OREGON – Two days after Oregon Gov. Kate Brown’s flavored vape ban executive order went into effect on October 15, the Oregon Court of Appeals temporarily stayed part of the order after[Read More…]
Gov. Brown issues temporary ban on flavored vape products
Photo of a vaping device that can be used for nicotine or cannabis from reader Kylee Rayne Reichow OREGON – In the wake of at least eight illnesses and two deaths statewide that the Oregon Health Authority says is linked to vaping, Governor Kate Brown issued an executive order Friday,[Read More…]
Oregon Health Authority: Stop vaping, now
Photo of a vaping device that can be used for nicotine or cannabis from reader Kylee Rayne Reichow OREGON – The companies who sold vaping products touted their devices as an effective and safe way to cut down on smoking cigarettes. Now, government agencies — including Washington County and the[Read More…]
Adventist names new president of Tillamook operations
Eric Swanson. Photo: Adventist Health Tillamook TILLAMOOK – Adventist Health Tillamook announced it is naming Eric Swanson as president of its Tillamook operations. Swanson served as executive director of strategy and business development prior to his new role as president, and he also served “in a number of clinical roles[Read More…]
Donors needed for blood drive on Friday, Feb. 8
Banks Fire District 13 main offices. Photo: Brenda Schaffer BANKS – A volunteer-organized Red Cross blood drive will be held on Friday, February 8 from 1:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Banks Fire District 13 training room, located at 13430 NW Main Street in Banks. Paula Jacobs, a local[Read More…]
