Month: September 2013

The newest BottleDrop Redemption Center will open in north Salem on Thursday, one in a growing number of such facilities that soon will include Bend. The new Salem facility, operated by Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative (OBRC), is located at 1917 Lancaster Dr. NE. BottleDrop will allow area consumers to redeem their bottles and cans quickly

Strong winds, heavy rain and lots of damage. “Out in the Ochocos and in some of the other outlying areas, we had rockfall onto the highway,” ODOT’s Bend regional spokesman, Peter Murphy, said Monday This weekend’s storm soaked the Pacific Northwest, breaking trees and records across Oregon. Redmond broke a daily rainfall record Saturday when

The prescribed fires planned southwest of Crescent and within the Lava Cast Forest east of Sunriver have been postponed to a later date due to precipitation received over the weekend. For more information, please visit the “Prescribed Fires” link on the Central Oregon Interagency Dispatch Center website, http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/centraloregon/fire/

NPG of Oregon Inc., a cluster of television stations that broadcasts live news on the NBC and FOX affiliates in Bend, Oregon is accepting applications for News Producer. This position will be responsible for producing our top rated newscasts. We are looking for a Journalist with the ability to be pro-active in connecting with the

NPG of Oregon Inc., a cluster of television stations that broadcasts live news on the NBC and FOX affiliates in Bend, Oregon is accepting applications for News producer/anchor/reporter. This position will be responsible for producing, reporting, and presenting enterprising stories on our top rated newscasts. We are looking for someone who combines strong journalistic skills

In an effort to better serve our patients in the Bend area, Mosaic Medical is excited to announce the opening of our Bend Internal Medicine Clinic on September 30 th . The Mosaic Medical Internal Medicine clinic is located at 2965 NE Conners Ave. (in the PacificSource building) on the east side of Bend. Longtime

Cascade Natural Gas continues replacing gas lines on Bend’s west side; having completed replacement of services in the alley between NW Newport & NW Ogden from NW 6 th St. to NW 7 th . Crews will move across NW 7 th and continue replacing services in this alley moving west to 8 th.. A

A pair of intense early-autumn storms swept into Oregon Saturday and Sunday, buffeting much of the state with high winds and heavy rain, toppling trees from Portland to Bend and knocking out power to thousands on the Oregon coast and in the Willamette Valley. Portland General Electric reported more than 17,000 customers lost power in

Flowers and the color purple flooded Bend’s Riverbend Park Sunday morning as more than 100 Central Oregonians came together to fight Alzheimer’s disease in the Alzheimer’s Association’s ‘Walk to End Alzheimer’s.” The flowers represented the ways in which people are affected by the disease: one color for those who had the disease, another for those

Marion and Linn County sheriff’s office search teams were busy Saturday night and Sunday morning, looking for and finding two mushroom pickers who became separated from two different groups of pickers west of Salem. Hun Meas, 31, of Salem went to an area off McCoy Road and Highway 22 with three other friends on Saturday

Gov. John Kitzhaber and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) were among several speakers in Bend Saturday at the Oregon AFL-CIO’ convention. The organization drew about 300 union members from across the state to it biennial convention at the Riverhouse Convention Center. Delegates representing Oregon unions met to set policies, discuss issues and hold informational sessions on

It was canceled last minute last year, spurring lots of disappointment in Central Oregon’s music community. But this year, the seventh annual Bend Roots Revival is back to the music — in a much different venue: Pakit Liquidators on Bend’s Eastside. It’s a big change from the festival’s former venue at the Century Center, but

When you walk into the bookstore on the COCC campus, staff members are waiting, to make sure when you walk out, you only have what you paid for. In her 16 years at COCC, Bookstore and Auxiliary Services Director Lori Willis says she’s seen a new level of crime on campus. And they have determined

A dozen Concept Stage companies pitched to a turn-away crowd at PubTalk at the Bend McMenamins Thursday night. Each company battled for the opportunity to be chosen as one of five finalists to present at the Oct. 18 Bend Venture Conference (BVC), the largest angel investment conference in the state. PubTalks and the BVC are

A 16-year-old Oregon teen was arrested Friday, accused of an online threat made Thursday on an Internet blog site, Oregon State Police reported. OSP detectives, assisted by Corvallis police and the FBI, took the teen into custody on a first-degree disorderly conduct charge, after an investigation identified him as a “person of interest,” troopers said.

The Bend Park & Recreation District is planning a prescribed field burn in coming weeks at the Riley Ranch Nature Reserve in northwest Bend. The burn will occur after the burning ban is lifted and prescribed burning conditions are met. It is anticipated that the burn will be in early October but it could be

Next Tuesday, the federal government will make changes to the calculations used to determine how much an eligible person may receive in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, formerly known as food stamps. The annual changes are cost-of-living adjustments to the income requirements and allowable deductions for SNAP eligibility, known as the SNAP standards. The

The cleanup from a fuel tanker crash and spill along Highway 26 on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation will continue through the weekend, reducing traffic to one lane, an ODOT spokesman said Friday as the estimate of fuel spilled rose to 5,000 gallons. About 3,500 gallons of diesel and 1,500 gallons of gasoline spilled in

For many years, archaeologists and historians have attempted to identify the first people to reach and populate the Western hemisphere, including North America. Beginning next week, the 20th annual Oregon Archaeology Celebration (OAC) series will examine several current theories on the matter through a sequence of presentations at Smith Rock State Park with the theme

For many La Pine residents, this has been a long time coming. “It’s a bad intersection — it needs a light, and there are too many accidents here,” a La Pine woman said Thursday. The city and Oregon Department of Transportation officials finally have a plan for the first stoplight on Highway 97 in La