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The Jefferson County School District’s Free Summer Meals for Kids provides meals weekdays at the Warm Springs K-8 Academy. Breakfast is served from 8:30-9am and lunch 11:30 until noon. Meals are open to all kids 18 and younger. No enrollment is required. This institution is an equal opportunity provider.
Millions in state funding saves three Salem homeless shelter sites
Three of Church at the Park's homeless shelters, Salem's first-of-its-kind microshelter villages, created in partnership with the city, faced closure due to the city's budget shortfall. Millions of dollars from the state will keep the shelters open for another year. ...
Fire-Themed Plays Rip Through JAW New Play Festival
As the Durkee Fire in Eastern Oregon rages and that familiar summer climate change despair kicks in, why not process your emotions with some live theater? Two of the four plays in Portland Center Stage’s JAW New Play Festival this weekend happen to be eerily prescient with fire themes.
Thorns add big Portland sports names as investors
PORTLAND, Ore. — This story comes from the Portland Business Journal, a KGW news partner. This and other stories can be found here. The Portland Thorns announced a new round of high-profile investors, courtesy of its new ownership. The group consists of a litany of former and current athletes...
Downtown Merchants to Host Inaugural Camas Art & Wine Walk on Sept. 7
Camas, WA — A brand new event for wine and art enthusiasts is coming to Camas on Saturday, September 7 from noon to 5 pm. Attendees over the age of 21 will visit 17 wineries at 17 downtown Camas merchant locations as part of the first ever Camas Art & Wine Walk.
Shop at the Dock returns in Newport
Shop at the Dock has returned to the Newport Bayfront, with opportunities for people to learn more about the local commercial fisheries on the Oregon coast. The popular tours, organized by Oregon Sea Grant and Oregon State University Extension Service, give locals and visitors an in-depth look at the different types of fishing vessels, what they fish for and how they catch fish, sustainability efforts, and how they can buy fresh fish directly from the fishermen selling it off their boats. ...
Former Blazer Mark Bryant Joins the Knicks
New York extends Tom Thibodeau and gets a new assistant. Former Portland Trail Blazers big man Mark Bryant is joining the New York Knicks in an assistant coaching role according to Ian Begley of SNY. Mark Bryant is joining the Knicks as an assistant coach on Tom Thibodeau’s staff, per SNY sources. Bryant, most recently with Pistons, is widely viewed as one of the top big man coaches in the NBA. Bryant is a 15-year NBA veteran who spent the first seven years of his career in Portland from 1988 to 1995. Since retiring in 2003, Bryant has served as...
Former Lake Oswego High School coach sues school district over firing related to transgender participation in athletics
John Parks, the former track and field and cross country coach at Lake Oswego High School, filed a lawsuit against the Lake Oswego School District and Lake Oswego School Board on Wednesday, July 24 in the U.S. District Court District of Oregon. The complaint, which was first reported by OregonLive, alleges that the district violated Parks’s First Amendment free speech rights and conducted an unlawful retaliatory investigation and subsequent firing, in violation of his 14th Amendment right to due process. ...
Massive Wildfire in Northern California Forces Thousands to Evacuate
A rapidly expanding wildfire, named the Park Fire, has consumed over 45,000 acres in Northern California, prompting widespread evacuations. The blaze, which ignited near Chico on Wednesday afternoon, escalated from 6,400 acres on Wednesday night to 45,550 acres by Thursday morning. Firefighters are prioritizing evacuations and structure defense, using bulldozers...
Bill Oram: Counting the ways Oregon and its inflatable Duck are making a splash in the Big Ten
INDIANAPOLIS — No, the inflatable Duck was not Dan Lanning’s idea. But that massive inflatable bath toy was never going to find its way into the middle of the largest waterway in the Indiana capital without the head coach’s say-so. If you purchase a product or register...
US promises $240 million to improve fish hatcheries, protect tribal rights in Pacific Northwest
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. government will invest $240 million in salmon and steelhead hatcheries in the Pacific Northwest to boost declining fish populations and support the treaty-protected fishing rights of Native American tribes, officials announced Thursday. The departments of Commerce and the Interior said there will be an initial $54 million for hatchery maintenance and modernization made available to 27 tribes in the region, which includes Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alaska. The hatcheries “produce the salmon that tribes need to live,” said Jennifer Quan, the regional administrator for NOAA Fisheries West Coast Region. “We are talking about food for the tribes and supporting their culture and their spirituality.” Some of the facilities are on the brink of failure, Quan said, with a backlog of deferred maintenance that has a cost estimated at more than $1 billion.
A look inside the Oregon Capitol under construction
For more than two years, most of the Oregon Capitol has been closed to the public as hundreds of construction workers retrofit the historic building to withstand earthquakes. Lawmakers and visitors have heard, glimpsed and, at some points, smelled the effects of construction, as loud bangs and whirring noises interrupted debate in hearing rooms and […]
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