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DESCHUTES COUNTY
Deschutes County cases: 6,249 (26 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 70 (zero new deaths)
Crook County cases: 801 (2 new case)
Crook County deaths: 18 (zero new deaths)
Jefferson County cases: 2,007 (2 new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 31 (zero new deaths)
Oregon cases: 163,295 (505 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,373 (3 new death)
COVID-19 patients hospitalized at St. Charles
Bend on Friday: 3 (1 in ICU)
130
(Dec. 4)
What is COVID-19? It’s an infection caused by a new coronavirus.
Symptoms (including fever, coughing and shortness of breath)
can be severe. While some cases are mild, the disease can be fatal.
108 new cases
120
(Jan. 1)
90
new
cases
7 ways to help limit its spread: 1. Wash hands often with soap
and water for at least 20 seconds. 2. Avoid touching your face.
3. Avoid close contact with sick people. 4. Stay home. 5. In public,
stay 6 feet from others and wear a cloth face covering or mask.
6. Cover a cough or sneeze with a tissue or cough into your elbow.
7. Clean and disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces.
110
*No data
available on
Jan. 31
due to state
computer
maintenence
(Nov. 27)
90
50
new
cases
70
60
(Feb. 17)
50
(Nov. 14)
7-day
average
40
31 new cases
28 new cases
(Oct. 31)
30
16 new cases
(July 16)
(Sept. 19)
20
(May 20)
1st case
100
80
47 new cases
9 new cases
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COVID-19 data for Friday, March 26:
8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
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SOURCES: OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY,
DESCHUTES COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES
New COVID-19 cases per day
10
(March 11)
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‘Our Towns’ film to include Bend segment
BY KRISTI TURNQUIST
The Oregonian
After asking readers of The
Atlantic to share stories about
their towns that hadn’t received
national press attention, jour-
nalists James and Deborah
Fallows began traveling.
They spent years visiting
towns around the country,
talking with people about how
their communities were dealing
with challenges. From their re-
porting, the Fallows wrote “Our
Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey
into the Heart of America,” a
nonfiction book based on what
they saw and heard.
In 2018, filmmakers Ste-
ven Ascher and Jeanne Jordan
joined forces with the Fallows
to go back to eight of the cit-
HBO photo
The HBO documentary, “Our Towns,” is inspired by the nonfiction book
by James and Deborah Fallows.
ies included in the bestsell-
ing book. The result is “Our
Towns,” a film that airs on
HBO on April 13. The doc-
umentary visits Bend ; San
Bernardino, California; Sioux
Falls, South Dakota; Colum-
bus, Mississippi.; Eastport,
Maine; and Charleston, West
Virginia.
At a time when so much of
the news is distressing, HBO
is emphasizing the positive
elements that make up “Our
Towns,” including putting a
spotlight on local innovations,
a sense of community and
shared commitment to change
as ways to help move forward.
In 2019, the Bend Bulletin re-
ported on the documentary, as
it was filming in the Bend area.
The story quotes James Fallows,
who said that he and his wife,
Deborah, decided to include the
town because of Bend’s success
in carving out a reputation as a
tourist destination, following the
decline of the timber industry
that had long been an economic
driver for the region.
Deborah Fallows is also
quoted, discussing how the au-
thors were motivated to share
stories that reflected a more
upbeat portrait of the nation
and its people than was being
widely reported at the time.
“As the country was having
its national challenges, peo-
ple became more interested in
wanting to hear these stories
as another view of what was
going on in America,” Debo-
rah Fallows said in the Bulletin
report. “It wasn’t just going to
hell-in-a-hand basket story of
America. It was another story
of America that was different,
but equally true.”
“Our Towns” premieres at
9 p.m. Tuesday, April 13 on
HBO, and will stream on HBO
Max.
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LOCAL BRIEFING
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No contested races for
Crook County School
District this May election
Unlike every other school
district in Central Oregon,
there will be no contested
school board races for Crook
County in the May 18 special
election.
The three Crook County
School Board seats up for
re-election this year each only
had one candidate file, accord-
ing to documents from the
Crook County Clerk’s Office.
Two of those candidates are
incumbents: chair Scott Coo-
per and Gwen Carr , according
to county documents.
Only one person filed for
the seat vacated by departing
board member Walter Wagner:
Powell Butte resident Jessica
Ritter. Ritter is an agricultural
appraiser who currently serves
as the board chair for Pow-
ell Butte Community Charter
School.
Falling, spent SpaceX
rocket puts on a show
A SpaceX rocket booster
falling out of orbit made for a
spectacular display over much
of the Pacific Northwest on
Thursday night, prompting
calls to authorities and excited
posts to social media.
A second stage from a
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket had
failed to make its deorbit burn
earlier this month and burned
up in the atmosphere at about
9 p.m. Thursday, according to
reports.
Michael Bertsch/Submitted photo
A SpaceX rocket booster falling out of orbit made for a spectacular dis-
play over much of the Pacific Northwest on Thursday night. This photo
was taken from Redmond.
“The widely reported bright
objects in the sky were the de-
bris from a Falcon 9 rocket 2nd
stage that did not successfully
have a deorbit burn,” the Na-
tional Weather Service in Seat-
tle wrote on Twitter.
The disintegrating rocket
part split into numerous pieces
as it fell into the night sky,
prompting reports of airplane
crashes or meteor strikes.
The spectacle was visible as
far north as Seattle and as far
west as Cannon Beach in Ore-
gon, according to posts on so-
cial media.
The National Weather Ser-
vice in Portland reported on
its social media channel that it
had received numerous calls
about the display and while it
could not confirm that it was
in deed the Falcon 9 second
stage said it seemed possible.
There was no comment on
the spectacle from SpaceX on
its Twitter feed.
— Bulletin staff reports
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