Month: June 2013

The Oregon State Marine Board and law enforcement partners from 32 counties and Oregon State Police will be participating in Operation Dry Water June 28 -30, as part of a nationally coordinated effort to reduce the number of accidents and fatalities related to boating under the influence (BUI). The mission of Operation Dry Water also

The Oregon House of Representatives passed HB 2510 B unanimously on Monday to provide relief for seniors who were disqualified from the Senior and Disabled Property Tax Deferral Program in 2011. “This legislation allows people, who were kicked out of the program by HB 2543 in 2011, to participate again in the program beginning in

Is Bend’s housing market back on track? Could we be facing another bubble? “Obviously, everybody’s concerned by how quickly prices are going up,” Cascade Sotheby’s International Realty’s principal broker Wendy Adkisson said Tuesday. According to the Bratton Report out this week, last month, Bend had its highest number of homes sales since the boom in

After 2 hours more testimony and debate Wednesday night, Bend city councilors still didn’t decide whether to send a proposed 2 percent room tax hike to voters in November. But they called a special July 10 meeting, vowed to decide then – and urged large and small lodging operators to try once more to reach

From the truck, to the bag, to the creek and out into the world. About 200,000 fish were released into Whychus Creek on Wednesday, part of an ongoing effort to restore the habitat to its natural state. “It’s an amazing odyssey, if you think about it — 3,000 or 4,000 miles these fish will travel,”

Your typical gym class games such as soccer, basketball and dodgeball are things we in America take for granted.But in Third World countries, equipment as simple as a ball is hard to come by. A global foundation known as ‘One World Futbol Project’ is working to change that. Its product is a special kind of

On Thursday, June 13th, the Bend Park and Recreation District completed the purchase of a 4 acre parcel of land located on the corner of SE 15th and Reed Market Road, adjacent to the Bend Senior Center. The land allows for the Bend Senior Center’s future expansion, as well as a second egress into Larkspur

Several crudely photocopied, counterfeit $20 and $100 bills have been passed at Prineville gas stations and convenience stores in the past week, prompting police to warn merchants and the public Wednesday to be on the lookout. In most cases, the bills weren’t spotted until the business tried to make a bank deposit, said police Capt.

Public corruption hits at the heart of what a government is supposed to do: serve its people. When public officials – whether elected, appointed, or under contract – use their public office for personal gain, they damage the public’s trust in all forms of government. These crimes are the result of deals sealed with whispered

The Family Access Network is the recipient of a $19,600 challenge grant from the Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund in support of the 2013 FAN Private Dinner held in February. Those attending the private dinner knew their contributions were going to be matched dollar for dollar, thanks to the generosity of the Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund.

A 16-year-old girl on a youth work crew doing trail maintenance in the fire-hit Pole Creek area southwest of Sisters tumbled down a steep hill Tuesday afternoon, suffering injuries that prompted a nearly four-hour air and ground rescue effort, authorities said. The unidentified teen was flown by AirLink helicopter to St. Charles Bend with injuries

A significant printing omission was discovered on the Forest Service Crooked River National Grassland Map that was published in 2012. The vicinity road system which includes two bridges that cross the Deschutes and Crooked River arms of Lake Billy Chinook did not show up on the map. The road system was inadvertently deleted in the

The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office is partnering with The Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to present one-day local public safety personnel training on mental health awareness. The Sheriff’s Office received a grant from DPSST to provide this training to the agency and other agencies statewide, said Capt. Shane Nelson in a news release

There are numerous studies that show children suffer from the summer slide when school is not in session. Summer slide is the decrease in skills and knowledge over the summer months while children are on summer vacation, when their brains tend to go on vacation too. There are many ways to help keep your child’s

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The unemployment rate in Oregon has dipped below 8 percent for the first time since the nation fell sharply into the Great Recession in the fall of 2008. The Oregon Employment Department said Tuesday the state unemployment rate was 7.8 percent in May and, after a revision, 7.9 percent in April.

Right now, most of the housing options at the Deschutes County Jail are dorms — and that’s a problem. “When we originally designed the jail we didn’t anticipate the numbers (of people) that we would see that were high risk medical need or high risk behavioral health,” said Sheriff’s Captain Michael Espinoza on Monday. The

Oregon State University researchers conclude in a new report that a global push for small hydropower projects, supported by various nations and also the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, may cause unanticipated and potentially significant losses of habitat and biodiversity. An underlying assumption that small hydropower systems pose fewer ecological concerns than large

A 65-year-old Madras man was killed Monday evening in a motorcycle crash on Highway 26 about two miles west of Rhododendron, Oregon State Police reported. The victim, identified as John Edward Tomer, was wearing a helmet, and was pronounced dead at the scene, troopers said. The crash, which occurred around 7:20 p.m., closed the highway

The nearly 50-year-old Madras High School bleachers were leveled by flames Monday morning – a fire set by firefighters. And as you might have guessed, it was a “burn to learn” drill to make way for a new facility, one of a list of projects Jefferson County School District voters approved in a $26.7 million

School’s out for the summer. For some kids — freedom. For parents and teachers — fear of the dreaded “summer slide.” “Summer learning loss is a problem, particularly with young children,” said Bend-La Pine Schools Assistant Superintendent Lora Nordquist. “We actually see gaps from when students left in the spring, in terms of reading skills