Historic cemeteries want to leave Confederate flag out of Memorial Day honors May 30 2021
Policy adopted in October 2020 recommends against placing controversial flag on graves of Confederate veterans buried in Oregon.
Monday, May 31, will be the first Memorial Day after a state commission agreed last fall to a policy discouraging display of the Confederate battle flag in historic cemeteries, where thousands of Civil War veterans are buried.
In October, Oregon s Commission on Historic Cemeteries adopted a position paper recommending the cemetery groups avoid displaying the battle flag on graves at the state s nearly 1,400 historic cemeteries. The commission s decision on the controversial flag is only advisory. It cannot require cemetery organizations to prevent the Confederate flag from being displayed.
Washington County beats Multnomah County in Lower Risk application May 14 2021
Multnomah County officials said they could not submit their plan for closing the vaccination gap in time.
Multnomah and Washington counties split over applying to be moved quickly into the Lower Risk pandemic restriction categories authorized by Oregon Gov. Kate Brown.
Both counties are close to meeting the standard Brown announced on Wednesday that 65% of residents 16 and older must have received their first COVID-19 vaccination.
Washington County applied to move out of the more restrictive High Risk category by also submitting a plan to the Oregon Health Authority to close the vaccination gap between ethnic groups. If approved, the county could be classified as Lower Risk on Friday, May 21.