Month: November 2013

Petersen Rock Garden near Redmond is among Oregon’s latest entries in the National Register of Historic Places, the state Parks and Recreation Department said Friday. Petersen Rock Garden was designed and constructed by Danish immigrant Rasmus Christian Petersen from about the time he retired from farming, in the winter of 1935-36 until his death in

Nearly two weeks after most of the ballots were counted, the outcome was finally known Friday evening: Culver’s fourth try in seven years at a school bond measure was approved – by just five ballots out of nearly 1,200 cast. The vote on the $8.8 million measure to renovate and upgrade schools was so close,

Oregon State Police is seeking the public’s help to find a suspect in an early Friday morning assault involving a Samurai sword at a home near Grants Pass in Josephine County. The suspect is also wanted on outstanding unrelated warrants, and OSP urges the public to not contact him and to call OSP Southern Command

The first two stages of the Reed Market Road project in Bend will be substantially complete and open to traffic by Saturday, weather permitting, the city said Thursday. Construction this season included the completion of Reed Market Road from Newberry Drive to Orion Avenue. The city thanked residents for their patience and understanding during the

Central Oregon artist Jennifer Lake is working on a new original print depicting the City of Redmond during the winter to be unveiled right before the Holiday Starlight Parade in downtown Redmond. Jennifer is a renowned international artist best known for her folk art paintings. She is composing a scene of Redmond during winter, featuring

The price of most hard-copy Pacific Northwest Recreation Series, Wilderness, Ranger District, and Special Area maps will increase Jan. 1, the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management announced Friday. This is the first price increase for these maps in seven years. Meanwhile, purchasing maps is becoming easier through online, retail outlet, and credit

The results of Bend’s initial sewer modeling were announced this week, and the news is good, city officials said Friday. Engineers see the potential to save tens of millions of dollars on the total cost for needed sewer system upgrades, compared to earlier plans. Master planning for Bend’s sewer collection system has been underway since

Deschutes County announced Thursday that Bank of the Cascades will take over from Hooker Creek as the sponsoring partner of the county fairgrounds’ Event Center, in a five-year deal that will provide $200,000 in revenue for the facility. County officials will join Bank of the Cascades management and local business leaders to celebrate the new

Bend-La Pine Schools has often been recognized for making healthy school lunches that students want to eat, and next week, these tasty meals and their makers will earn national attention. Seventeen of the district’s schools will be awarded Gold, Silver or Bronze awards on Wednesday, November 20 in the federal government’s HealthierUS School Challenge, a

Gov. John Kitzhaber has a lofty goal: He wants 100 percent of Oregon students to graduate high school by 2025. To reach this goal, schools need to target help for special groups, like students who come from low-income families. A report released Monday by the Annie E. Casey Foundation said 19 percent of low-income third-graders

Have you ever thought about getting into home brewing? Central Oregon is the place to do it. Tom Brohamer the President of the Central Oregon Homebrewers Club says it’s easy and fairly inexpensive. “I started out doing five gallon batches on my stove top,” Brohamer said recently. It’s a hobby he’s been working on for

Devastation half a world away, leaving some speechless who feel it so close to home. “We can’t put into words what we felt when we saw it,” Filipino American Association of the High Desert chairwoman Nenette Reynolds said Thursday. She said she’s been on edge waiting to hear from various family and loved ones —

Redmond’s ice rink will open on Friday, November 22, at 5 p.m., weather permitting. Due to the success of the rink last year, the City is hoping to open it earlier this year so that families have an affordable, fun activity to enjoy during the Thanksgiving Holiday week. The approximately 4,000-square-foot rink will be open

Thanks to the support of Bend, La Pine and Sunriver residents, a new elementary and a new middle school will open doors to students as soon as Fall 2015. These learning centers will help balance student enrollment growth across a district that has seen more than 1,000 new students enroll in the last five years

The Oregon Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the Lions Clubs of Oregon, is partnering with Lions Clubs and schools to help children in need of vision and hearing screenings statewide. The Mobile Health Screening Program (MHSP) is part of the nonprofit’s 2020 Vision campaign that aims to have all Oregon school-aged

Will the dam stay or go? It’s an issue that’s been swirling around Mirror Pond for months, some would say years. But Wednesday night the Mirror Pond ad hoc committee decided it will announce its preference to keep the dam or get rid of it, at its next meeting, just three weeks away. The announcement

Repeating a move that proved successful a year ago, Central Oregon LandWatch and WaterWatch of Oregon filed a lawsuit Thursday in federal court, seeking an injunction to again block the city of Bend’s Surface Water Improvement Project. The two groups had vowed to take that step at U.S. District Court in Eugene last week after

A paved trail from the Crossroads Subdivision to Sisters High and a paved trail running from the edge of Sisters to Black Butte Ranch. Two proposed projects with one goal — connectivity. “They’re great recreational trails and they bring in a lot of people from outside the area so this would be great for our

For some students, the pressure of studying for midterms and finals gets to be too much. So they decide they need some chemical help. Enter Adderrall and Ritalin, just two of the drugs prescribed to people who have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. “I’ve heard just in general, people will take it to get

The Oregon Humane Society said Wednesday it was rescuing more than 100 dogs from a Columbia County puppy mill that is under investigation for animal neglect. The dogs were being taken to an emergency animal shelter set up by the Oregon Humane Society, where they will be sheltered and receive medical care from the OHS