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The commission also talked itself into participating in one more meeting. In the lone commission amendments to the $181 million budget that City Manager Mark Shepard introduced May 3, commissioners recommended Wednesday that the city target facilities with the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds it receives and that a further Budget Commission meeting be scheduled to discuss the issue. More than 100 members of the Republican party say there needs to be change.The group plans to release a stat...

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Dramatically, the Corvallis City Council heard in a presentation at Monday’s virtual session. The annual monitoring report that university officials provide to the city shows just 21% of general on-campus spots were being used last fall. A total of 53% of the residence hall sports were used. In March, the Cornish Seal Sanctuary released two rescued baby beaver sisters to their nursery which has been specifically created to be a wild haven for the animals, after years of work and developmen...

How an old Massachusetts policy kept people on health insurance A now-defunct policy in Massachusetts designed to protect people from losing their state-sponsored health care insurance due to lapsed payments worked well, according to a new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research and co-authored by several Harvard researchers. The analysis found that the old state policy called “automatic retention” protected 14% of adults annually from losing health insurance cov...

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Kids in southern Ontario can return to school safely, despite higher community spread of COVID-19, says Dr. Peter Jüni, scientific director of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. But he says it will be a challenge that needs to be well-managed. A proposal that would have temporarily lowered the number of required graduation credits at Fremont High School died on the floor during Monday’s Fremont Public Schools Board of Education meeting, potentially putting the prospect of rece...

There might not be a plot of land in Corvallis that has inspired more discussion than the acreage along the now-extended Northwest Circle Boulevard between Witham Hill Drive and Harrison Boulevard. It took eight annexation votes, the final one in 2004, to get the 95 acres of property into the city’s stock of land. It took until 2015 for city land use actions and state court battles to wind up, with the final decisions allowing the construction of 900 bedrooms of student housing. Along the ...

The Corvallis City Council and city staff participated Thursday in a remote two-hour work session on team building, roles and responsibilities. The session was facilitated by Larry Patterson and Andy Parks of GEL Oregon. Parks also served six months as the city’s interim finance director. The discussion was a blend of principles and practical examples and came to life mainly when the latter were on the table. Issues covered ranged from parliamentary procedure to meeting protocols, with the...

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The RV and car camping facility in Corvallis’ Pioneer Park has reopened. Parks and Recreation Department employees began admitting campers Tuesday morning, one week after the lot was cleared to allow time to stripe the lot, add amenities and use an application process to ensure that all campers have local ties. By noon Tuesday two RVs already were in their numbered slots, and Jason Quick, the owner of a third RV, had stopped by to pick up his permit and forms. Quick, who owns a 45-foot mot...