For 10 years, Oregon Humanities’ Dear Stranger project has invited Oregonians to exchange letters with people they’ve never met. Since 2014, more than 1,000 people have sent letters to Dear Stranger and received letters…
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OREGON DEPT. OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (DEQ): Air quality advisory for much of Oregon through Sunday Sept. 8th
(Sept. 6, 2024) QUICK FACTS Location: Clackamas, Crook, Deschutes, Grant, Harney, Jefferson, northern Klamath, northern Lake, northern Malheur counties End date: Through Sunday for western Oregon, until further notice for central and eastern Oregon Smoke source: Fires…
AUTHORS AGAINST BOOK BANS – LETTER TO TILLAMOOK SCHOOL BOARD – Over 700 signatures to bring back Garcia Girls
September 3, 2024 Dear Tillamook School Board Members, We, the undersigned authors and illustrators, are writing to oppose the removal of How the García Girls Lost Their Accents from your district’s 10th-grade…
OREGON DEPT. OF TRANSPORTATION (ODOT): U.S. 101 bridge North of Manzanita Repair Work Expected to Start in Late September; Lane Closure, Flagging Traffic until Repairs Complete
(Sept. 5, 2024, MANZANITA, OR) – The Oregon Department of Transporetation (ODOT) expect repair work to start in late September on the Necarney Creek Bridge on U.S. 101 four miles north of…
Summer EBT Application Deadline Extended to September 30, 2024
(Salem, OR) – The application deadline for the new Summer EBT program has been extended to Sept. 30, 2024. The program offers $120 per child to help cover grocery costs when school food programs…
OREGON DEPT. OF FORESTRY NEWS UPDATE: Fire Season is not over
(9/5/24; Salem, OR)— The Oregon Department of Forestry wants to remind Oregonians that with weather fluctuating across the state, fire is still on the landscape and fire season is still in effect….
City of Rockaway Beach Monthly Update September 3, 2024
By Mayor Charles McNeilly Welcome to my City of Rockaway Beach Monthly Update with a look back at the month of August 2024. I delivered my annual State of the City Message…
OREGON DEPT. OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (DEQ): Air quality advisory for Portland-Vancouver metro and Salem areas due to smog Thursday Sept. 4; Wildfire Smoke Advisory for Central, Eastern & Southern Oregon
(September 4, 2024, Statewide, Ore.) – Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and the Southwest Clean Air Agency issued an air quality advisory for Thursday, Sep. 5 for the Portland-Vancouver metro and Salem…
Request for Reversal of Tillamook School Board Decision to Remove Book
I do not currently have children or grandchildren in the Tillamook School District, but I pay taxes in this district, and I care deeply about the quality of education the students TSD…
NEWS UPDATE FROM STATE REPRESENTATIVE DAVID GOMBERG: Offshore Wind in Scotland – Part 2
Our newsletter this week is being sent on Tuesday. Monday we observed Labor Day. We honor working people every day and this day in particular. Here are just a few examples of…