Month: September 2013

Oregon Lions Clubs are working with the Oregon Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation to combat preventative blindness and deafness in the community through free health screenings, including one Sept. 24 in Bend. The Oregon Lions Mobile Health Screening Program (MHSP) will provide free health screenings to the adult public in the following areas: visual acuity,

The Oregon State Police Fish & Wildlife Division Bend office is asking for the public’s help in finding whoever is responsible for the illegal shooting with an arrow of a 4×4 trophy-sized buck deer overnight,found Monday morning in southeast Bend. A reward is offered through the Oregon Hunters Association Turn-In-Poachers (TIP) program to help solve

Preliminary information released Tuesday by Oregon State Police indicates one person died in a fatal traffic crash on Oregon roadways during the 2013 Labor Day holiday 78-hour period, which started 6:00 p.m., Friday, August 30 , and concluded 11:59 p.m., Monday , September 2 . According to ODOT’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS): * This

Seven Peaks School has become the newest member of an ever growing global community of schools offering the Middle Years Program International Baccalaureate in 144 different countries. The I.B. has a positive impact on students, schools and their wider communities with learning going well beyond the classroom. Many universities in America allow students with an

Bank of the Cascades employees have helped raise $70,000 to benefit Central Oregon nonprofits as part of an annual matching donation campaign sponsored by the bank. Matching funds provided by the bank doubled the employee donations of $34,000 for a total of $70,000 to benefit the local community. The workplace campaign matches every dollar of

If you own property in Deschutes County, you’re familiar with recent real estate market value “ups-and-downs” during the last few years. Deschutes County Assessor Scot Langton wants to prepare you for an interesting combination of Measure 50 consequences, market fluctuation and economic circumstance coming this fall. When property tax statements are mailed in October, some

A smoke alarm installed by the Bend Fire Department proved vital — and possibly life-saving — early Friday when it alerted residents of a southwest Bend mobile home of a fire burning beneath their home, officials said. Firefighters responded just before 12:30 a.m. to the reported fire at 19650 Gunwood Lane in the Romaine Village

Five more smoke reports were received on Labor Day by Central Oregon fire dispatchers, and at least three were confirmed to be human-caused, officials said Monday evening. One of the five was on private property protected by the state Department of Forestry, and John Day-area dispatchers handled it, according to the Central Oregon Interagency Dispatch

A Tigard man whose small plane ran out of fuel on a flight from Idaho to California tried to land at the Sisters Eagle Airport Sunday evening, but crash-landed about 200 yards short of the runway, authorities said, adding that the unhurt pilot got out of the damaged plane on his own. Deschutes County sheriff’s

Central Oregon is getting another brewery. Boneyard Beer will be opening a second location off of Empire Avenue in northeast Bend. The new location is three times bigger than their current one, and will allow the company to more than double their production. Boneyard Beer currently makes about 15,000 barrels a year, and Co-Owner Tony

The American Red Cross and Sport Clips Haircuts are teaming up to show that “Saving Lives Never Looked So Good.” During the month of September, all presenting blood and platelet donors at participating Red Cross blood drives and blood donation centers will receive a coupon* for a free haircut as a thank you for their

Two Oregon lawmakers — one Democrat, one Republican — issued statements Sunday in support of President Obama’s call for a congressional vote on whether to authorize military action in Syria in the wake of a chemical-weapons attack. While neither brief comment indicated how they would vote, both Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and Rep. Greg Walden.,

A Pendleton man was arrested on a murder charge Saturday night after he called Jefferson County 911 from Madras to say he may have killed a woman near Sisters – about the same time Deschutes County deputies were called to a Cloverdale-area home, where a woman’s body was found, officials said Sunday. Joshua Leo Jokinen,