Month: July 2013

Teachers urge people to never stop learning – and they’re taking their own advice in Oregon. This week, more than 400 educators are gathering in Bend for three days of sharing ideas. Topics range from dealing with difficult people and responding to pupil violence to how Oregon’s tax system works and how to decipher a

A fierce fire in Powell Butte Monday afternoon put up a tall column of black and gray smoke and burned a home, barn and several outbuildings as firefighting crews from several agencies fought to contain it, authorities said. Crook County Fire Marshal Casey Kump said crews responded to the blaze around 1:30 p.m. on Riggs

When the flames flare up, firefighters get to work on the ground, digging a fire line around the blaze to contain it. “The term containment means there is a fire line constructed to mineral soil or using roads and other natural barriers such as water or rocks around the fire,” Forest Service Fire Training and

A group of thru-hikers tackling a segment of the Pacific Crest Trail were putting out a small brushfire Sunday at Bobby Lake on Sunday afternoon when they looked up to see a much scarier sight. “We’re fighting this little fire, and we look up — and there’s this huge wildfire in front of us,” hiker

Rachel Woods says she was fine waiting a day after she turned 22 onTuesday to have a special birthday dinner with her hard-working, America- and family-loving, usually-dirt-covered fiance, Josh Ketchem. After all, the Redmond couple, already with three kids between them, learned just a week ago that they would be having their first child together,

Saving Grace is proud to announce our inclusion in the list of Oregon Business magazine’s annual 100 Best Nonprofits to Work For in Oregon. This is fifth consecutive year Saving Grace has made the prestigious list. This year the list and rankings were based on the confidential input of the 5,500 employees from 170 nonprofits

The United Way of Deschutes County announced Monday a funding plan for 2013-14 that invests $1,110,293 in a range of essential community services provided by local non-profit agencies. The total fund disposition package includes $708,337 in allocations, grants, and donor designations to twenty-seven local social service agencies that partner with United Way of Deschutes County,

With hot and dry conditions expected to continue and a series of human-caused fires on public land, the Prineville District Bureau of Land Management, the Deschutes National Forest and the Crooked River National Grassland of the Ochoco National Forest are implementing campfire restrictions. Effective 12:01 a.m. August 2, (Friday), open fires, including charcoal fires,will be

Doing business in Bend Hi. I’m Carolyn Eagan. I’m the Bend Business Advocate. I am employed by the City of Bend but I work for every single business based in Bend. My primary responsibilityis to facilitate communication between the City of Bend and the people and organizations doing business in Bend. I also staff the

A new state foreclosure prevention program will be launched this Wednesday in 33 Oregon counties, and the Portland area next month, officials said Monday. The “Home Rescue Program” will provide assistance to Oregon Homeowners in two ways – through monthly mortgage payments (up to $20,000 or 12 monthly payments), and reinstatement payments to bring mortgages

The Oregon Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee is pleased to announce the appointment of four new members. The eight-member governor-appointed committee advises the Oregon Department of Transportation on issues related to bicycling and walking. New members are: Evan MacKenzie: Evan is a Pendleton city planner Jeff Monson: Jeff is the executive director of Commute Options

Richard Streeter, M.Ed. will join Cascade Youth and Family Center as the Program Manager in August. Cascade Youth & Family Center has provided safety to the runaway, homeless and at-risk youth population in Deschutes County since 1989. Services include emergency and transitional shelter, food and hygiene distribution, family mediation, and crisis intervention for approximately 230

Two fires broke out along Highway 26 on the hill entering Madras to the north Sunday afternoon, sending up thick, black smoke and burning an outbuilding before firefighters were able to corral it, authorities said. The fire was reported around 1:30 p.m. on the hill between Highways 26 and 97, said Jefferson County sheriff’s Deputy

A 15-year-old Bend boy who admitted lighting fireworks that ignited a brushfire during the Balloons Over Bend “nightglow” just over a week ago faces reckless burning and other charges, police said Monday. Onlookers first tackled the fire that Bend police and fire also responded to the evening of Friday, July 19 along the Deschutes River

A week after it ignited, an army of firefighters has stopped the growth of the 51,000-acre Sunnyside Turnoff Fire on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation and the last closed roads have reopened, officials said Sunday as they declared the fire 95 percent contained, and the tab to battle it hit $5.4 million. Sunday’s figure of

A Forest Grove couple was injured Sunday afternoon when their motorcycle crashed along Highway 20 about three miles west of the Santiam Pass summit, Oregon State Police reported. Around 4:30 p.m., a 2004 Yamaha motorcycle operated by Rickie Ray Taylor, 61, of Forest Grove, was heading west on the downhill grade near milepost 78, negotiating

Two Redmond men were arrested Sunday in connection with an early-morning drive-by shooting at a northwest Prineville home in which a house was hit at least once and a parked car was struck several times, Crook County sheriff’s deputies said. A sheriff’s deputy was dispatched around 5:20 a.m. to 4580 NW Lamonta Road on a

A Bend police community liaison officer found a fire burning the exterior of an unoccupied northeast Bend home Sunday afternoon and used a portable extinguisher to douse the small blaze before it could spread inside, fire officials said. Firefighters responded shortly before 2 p.m. to the fire at 2014 NE Holiday Avenue, north of St.

A brushfire ignited on BLM land east of the Redmond Airport on Sunday burning several acres before fire fighters put it out. About 30 Redmond Fire and Forest Service firefighters responded with multiple engines and tankers. The fire broke out on Bureau of Land Management property south of Highway 126, used by the Oregon Army

A southwest Redmond neighborhood was hit by thieves early Sunday morning. Police said more than a dozen people around Glacier Avenue and Fissure Loop had their cars broken into and items stolen before sunrise. Well, “broken into” might not be technically accurate. Police said every one of them had been parked outside with their doors