Month: March 2014

Tickets to see political satirist Will Durst go on sale at bendticket.com on Monday, April 7. Durst’s popular show “BoomeRaging: From LSD to OMG” is at 7:30 pm, Monday, May 12 at the Volcanic Theatre Pub, 70 SW Century Drive, Bend, inside the Century Center. The benefit performance for KPOV, 88.9 fm is presented by

We first introduced you to 7-year-old Mason Procknow last week. He was born deaf and now he needs an ‘FM System’ — a special wireless microphone, connected to his cochlear implant, allowing him to hear his baseball coach’s instructions. Well, his story went viral and now, one of Mason’s biggest idol’s has stepped up to

One year ago, Bend Spay and Neuter Project and Bend Pet Express made a dream they shared come true by joining forces to open a Pet Food Bank for low-income pet owners in Central Oregon. On April 5 th they will celebrate having helped 271 families provide food for over 1,000 cats and dogs in

Project Wildfire announced Monday that Deschutes County has been accepted into the Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network as a pilot community. The network is comprised of 17 communities nationwide similar to Deschutes County who are striving to make their communities more resilient to wildfire. Project Wildfire will be able to celebrate the success of our

Current homeowners facing foreclosure or having difficulty paying their mortgage can receive help through NeighborImpact’s HomeSource office. The agency facilitates two programs, Mortgage payment Assistance (MPA), and the Oregon Foreclosure Avoidance program (OFA). MPA is offered through the Oregon Homeownership Stabilization Initiative (OHSI), which assists homeowners who are unemployed or facing financial difficulties. The program

Summer registration for Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Oregon begins Tuesday, April 1st at Redmond, Terrebonne, East Bend, and Downtown Bend locations and summer packets may be picked up between 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm, Monday – Friday. Due to the demand at the Bend Downtown (500 NW Wall Street), registration will open at

Free tax appointments are still available through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program through United Way of Deschutes County. Appointments are available in Bend at the downtown Library, in Redmond at the Oregon Human Services Building and in Prineville at the Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council Building. VITA volunteers have helped hundreds of mid- to low-income

A Redmond woman accidentally smashed her SUV not just into, but through the Sprint cellphone store at the Redmond Fred Meyer Sunday morning — then backed out again, police said. No one was hurt, as it was hours before the store was due to open, but the crash left behind tens of thousands of dollars

A 28-year-old La Pine man – the son of the owners of Paulina Lake Lodge – was killed Sunday afternoon when a 200-yard-wide avalanche buried him and his snowmobile during an outing near the base of Paulina Peak east of La Pine, authorities confirmed late Sunday night. The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office got a call

A 24-year-old Bend man has been arrested on arson, burglary and other charges in a fire Saturday night that tore through an RV and boat parked in a northeast Bend driveway and damaged the garage of an adjacent home, police said late Sunday. Officers credited an alert neighbor who saw a suspect identified as Lee

There is a lot of debate, including a group trying to mount a legal challenge to stop OSU-Cascades from building on the west side. Now, as the land-use process kicks into gear, a new group has started a letter-writing campaign to support the campus location, though there also are plenty of letters going to city

The evidence search continued Saturday in a field southeast of Redmond where a resident discovered the skeletal remains of an adult Friday afternoon off Highway 126, police told NewsChannel 21. The remains were removed Friday before the latest storm moved in and will be taken to the State Medical Examiner’s Office for an autopsy, in

A housekeeper who showed up at a just-vacated rental home west of Redmond was surprised by an apparent intruder Saturday, fled and called police. Officers soon surrounded the home and called out a SWAT team, which entered and found no one inside, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said. Renters of the vacation home in the 11000

A Sisters-area landowner involved in a lengthy dispute with Deschutes County over weddings on his farm-zoned property has been warned he needs land-use permits to hold services in his home. The Bulletin newspaper (http://is.gd/akHaro ) reports 56-year-old John Shepherd is a pastor, and hosts services out of his home on the property, with about a

A private contractor installing communications lines in northwest Bend cut a natural gas line and a pressurized sewer line Friday afternoon, causing service interruptions, a small raw-sewage spill that partly reached the Deschutes River and the closure of Archie Briggs Road, officials said. Around 2 p.m., the contractor hit a one-inch Cascade Natural Gas service

ODOT has a reminder: Please remove your studded tires by Monday. “Given the current weather forecasts, ODOT does not plan to extend the Oregon studded tire season,” the agency said Friday. Here’s the rest of their announcement: ODOT encourages you to consider other types of traction tires or chains. A study completed in 2000 concluded

The rental market on the High Desert is very tight, with an estimate of only 0.5 percent in vacancies — great for property owners and managers, not so much for those scrambling to find a place to live. “This is the best rental market I’ve ever seen,” Kevin Restine, manager at Plus Property Management LLC,

Your input is needed to help the City of Bend complete its first formal Stormwater Master Plan. The plan seeks to correct stormwater problems with infrastructure improvement projects over the next twenty years. The 2008 draft Stormwater Master Plan is undergoing significant revision now that additional data has been analyzed and state and federal regulatory

More than 800 Pacific Power customers in southeast Bend lost power for two hours Friday morning when a jumper wire to a power line failed — and about the time those repairs were done, a new outage hit the Cherry Lane area north of Madras. The Bend outage began around 10:15 a.m. and eventually affected

The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department plans to begin a habitat restoration and fuels reduction project on seven undeveloped acres of the Tumalo State Park along the Deschutes River. Removal of juniper trees will be done by hand crews with chainsaws, said Greg Ciannella, natural resource specialist with the department in Bend. Some of the