Month: July 2012

The Oregon Cultural Trust Board, at its quarterly meeting in The Dalles on July 26, awarded $502,552 in competitive cultural development grants, including two awards totaling $19,000 in Central Oregon. Funded projects in Central Oregon are The High Desert Museum, which received $14,000 to support “Head to Toe,” an upcoming exhibit of Columbia Plateau Native

The NeighborImpact Board of Directors is excited to announce that Scott Cooper has accepted their offer to become the new executive director of NeighborImpact, succeeding its long term retiring executive, Sharon Miller. Cooper joins NeighborImpact from the Partnership to End Poverty. He will assume his duties on September 24. For the past two years, Cooper

Two masked men robbed a downtown Redmond jewelry store at gunpoint during the lunch hour Tuesday. That was quickly followed by a 45-minute lockdown at Central Oregon Community College’s Redmond campus after an anonymous 911 call claiming there had been a shooting there, which turned out not to be the case. Police Lt. Nathan Garibay

Police are still searching for the suspect who police say entered a NW Bend bank armed with a knife, approached a teller and demanded money. Now the question many are asking is, is this the same suspect from two other recent bank robberies in Bend? Police say there are definitely some similarities between the suspect

The Crook County Sheriff’s Office will be holding a series of town Hall meetings in August at various locations around the county. The topics of these meetings will be in regards to the sheriff’s office budget and Crook County Jail operations. Sheriff Jim Hensley said, “We will be discussing the budget and educating the community

Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden and Gov. John Kitzhaber announced Tuesday an agreement on water allocation from Central Oregon’s Crooked River between a broad coalition of stakeholders in the region. Legislation will be introduced later this week by Senator Merkley with Senator Wyden joining as a co-sponsor, the senators said. “This bill ends 40

Police are looking for a suspect or any tips from the public in a southeast Bend stabbing early Tuesday that left two men injured, one seriously, officers said. Officers responded shortly before 2 a.m. to a reported stabbing on Southeast Third Street, near Burnside Avenue, said Lt. Paul Kansky. They found two stabbing victims and

Beginning next week, crews will be restoring a well-loved trail on the Sisters Ranger District. People on the trail may experience detours or delays during the next three weeks around these restoration activities. On Monday, crews will begin work on the Metolius River Trail. They will replace trail structures, such as bridges and puncheon, and

Oregonians will face quite a variety in the nine measures on the November ballot, issues ranging from allowing privately owned casinos, legalizing marijuana and phasing out the estate tax. Secretary of State Kate Brown said Tuesday that measure numbers have been assigned to the two legislative referrals from the 76th Legislative Assembly and the initiative

The Lava Fire, 15 miles northeast of Fort Rock in northern Lake County, has grown to 10,000 acres, burning in a lava flow and a Bureau of Land Management wilderness study area, officials said. As of Tuesday morning, officials said the fire was 25 percent contained but that they don’t expect full containment until about

The Bend Chamber has created a new way to spotlight Chamber members. The Chamber is working in partnership with David Orton Productions to produce short clips of a different member each month. The short video segments highlight the business and will be released each month on the Bend Chamber’s website www.bendchamber.org and its Facebook page.

The Oregon Bankers Association inducted Ron May, director of Capital Pacific Bank, and Patti Moss, vice chair and former president and chief executive officer of Bank of the Cascades, into the Oregon Bankers Hall of Fame during its Annual Convention held in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho recently. The Oregon Bankers Hall of Fame is the highest

A human-caused brushfire broke out Monday afternoon on vacant land in northeast Bend, prompting a multi-agency response and a search for witnesses to the early stages of the blaze. The fire was first reported in three trees in a field off Holiday Avenue northwest of St. Charles Medical Center around 2:40 p.m. The blaze quickly

The Bend Fire Department, in conjunction with the non-profit Condega Bomberos Project, is collecting new and good-quality used sporting equipment for the children of Condega, Nicaragua. Condega has been a sister city with the city of Bend since 2004. Nicaragua is the second-poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. where the average daily wage is about

Bend is top dog according to Dog Fancy magazine. That is: Bend is the most dog-friendly city in the U.S. The magazine chose Bend based on a number of factors, including outdoor recreation, downtown accessibility and pet-friendly businesses. And the people here said Monday it’s no shock to them. “Not at all,” said Bend Pet

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs have just released a second group of Rocky Mountain goats at the base of Mt Jefferson, officials said Monday. A total of 24 Rocky Mountain goats (14 nannies, one adult billy, six yearling nannies, two female kids and one male kid)

The Deschutes County Fair starts Wednesday, and while it’s lots fun for everyone, few people know what really goes into making the fair happen. Deschutes County Fairgrounds Director Dan Despotopulos said Monday that months of planning goes into making the fair possible for Central Oregonians. “We have several meetings with them (Funtastic Shows) over several

There is a place on Earth where the laws of physics appear to not apply. That place is the Oregon Vortex. Only 180 miles away from Bend, or 20 miles north of Medford, the vortex is an ideal One-Tank Trip for the family to experience a bit of the unreal. Discovered in 1854, the Oregon

The Deschutes County Road Maintenance Department will be chip sealing on Knott Road from the Highway 97 overpass to China Hat Road on Thursday. Operations will run from approximately 7:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. A pilot car will be guiding traffic through the job site, but travelers should still expect temporary traffic delays.

Redmond’s city manager has resigned and will take the same job in Cupertino, California at the end of August. While David Brandt has been in Redmond only since 2009, city officials say his work has been important. NewsChannel 21 talked Monday with a city councilor and an economic development manager, and they both had one