Month: March 2014

The battle over medical marijuana dispensaries has made its way to Sisters. On Thursday night, city councilors voted to explore creating an ordinance to ban the shops, asking their attorney to draw up the language. But it was not unanimous. “We are a split council — three in favor of an ordinance and two not,”

The search for a missing Redmond man has been called off in the Bering Sea. Eric Eder was on the 87-foot fishing vessel Seeker Wednesday morning when he fell overboard 10 miles north of Alaska’s Unimak Island. The Coast Guard and boats nearby began searching for the 43-year-old Eder, but after 10 hours and 64

Eleven of 17 businesses visited in Terrebonne and Redmond recently passed a check for alcohol sales to minors by refusing to sell alcohol to a minor volunteer, the Oregon Liquor Control Commission reported Friday. The sales checks were performed March 1 and resulted in a compliance rate of 65 percent, which is below the 2013

Fuels specialists intend to begin burning concentrations of previously cut juniper on up to 400 acres on the east side of the Maury Mountains and 12 miles southeast of Post, as early as Monday. Smoke from this operation about 20 miles south of Big Summit Prairie on the Ochoco National Forest could be visible from

Four Bend residents face methamphetamine-related charges after a drug raid Thursday morning on a home in northeast Bend, across the street from Mountain View High School, police said. Bend police and members of the Central Oregon Emergency Response Team (CERT) served a search warrant around 7:10 a.m. at the home at 2665 NE Brian Ray

The Sisters School District is in a pickle. “If some money could fall from the sky somewhere that would be great,” said Sisters School Board Chair Don Hedrick Wednesday. The district is stuck between a rock and hard place, to the tune of more than $800,000, and school officials are scrambling to fill the budget

Since the start of the year, Deschutes County Health Services has identified 6 confirmed cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, in the community, the agency reported Friday. All cases have been investigated by Health Services Communicable Disease staff and close contacts have been notified. There is no clear link between many of the cases, and

Police officers from across the country will be headed to the nations capital in May for a bike ride to remember and honor those who have died in the line of duty. Among the some 1,700 riders, a few from Central Oregon. But before they can head out East, they need to raise $1,850. Thursday

The view from Buckingham Elementary Principal Skip Offenhauser’s office is a bit troubling. “As it stands right now, people walk in through our front entrance, and they are not seen by our office,” Offenhauser said Thursday. But thanks to a $96 million bond that voters approved last year, the school’s tunnel-like front entrance is getting

Lunch time at the Prineville Senior Center — a place to break bread, socialize and forget your troubles. For $3.50, you get a whole lot more than just food. “I love the people here, that’s why I come,” lunch-goer Ann Rothe said Thursday. “For $3.50, you get everything, and you get waited on — and

A prescribed fire planned near Sunriver early next week has been postponed. Due to changing weather conditions, the prescribed burn that was scheduled for ignitions next Monday will be postponed until the burn objectives for this specific area can be met. It is still on the schedule to be burned this spring. This 60-acre unit,

The Mt. Bachelor Sports Education Foundation is now accepting applications for booth space at the Pole Pedal Paddle finish line festivities in the Les Schwab Amphitheater, May 17 th . 10×10 booth spaces are available for $300. Only non-food booth spaces are available. The maximum number of food booths has already been filled. However, if

Just in time for the launch of its spring cooperative marketing campaigns — including Travel Oregon’s Seven Wonders, Sunriver Go Free, Central Oregon Legends Resort Collection, and Central Oregon Golf Trail — the Central Oregon Visitors Association has launched a completely redesigned and enhanced visitcentraloregon.com website. The new site features a state-of-the-art accommodations search tool

Twelve of 13 businesses visited in Bend, Sunriver and La Pine passed a check for alcohol sales to minors by refusing to sell alcohol to a minor volunteer, the Oregon Liquor Control Commission reported Thursday. The sales checks were performed Feb. 12 and resulted in a compliance rate of 92 percent, which is above the

The U.S. Senate passed legislation Thursday based on a proposal by Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., that he sayd will delay flood insurance rate hikes threatening Oregon homes and businesses. The legislation heads to the president’s desk to be signed into law. In September, Merkley held a hearing in his Economic Policy Subcommittee on the extreme

A hospitalized Bend man improved to serious condition Wednesday, a day after his pickup truck crossed the center line and collided nearly head-on with a southbound semi truck on Highway 97 north of La Pine. The crash – one of several in the area Tuesday – shut the highway for 3 1/2 hours and led

There was only one filing-day surprise in Central Oregon for the May 20 th primary election, and it was in Crook County. Tuesday at 5 p.m. was the filing deadline, and on the last day, Prineville City Councilor Jack Seley filed to take on county Commissioner and fellow Republican Seth Crawford. In Deschutes County, Commissioner

St. Patrick’s Day is Monday, and Oregon State Police, local law enforcement agencies, ODOT and traffic safety partners are reminding drivers not to get behind the wheel if they’ve been drinking. For many people, St. Patrick’s Day has become synonymous with drinking. Unfortunately, that means that drunk drivers have made the celebratory day very dangerous.

Central Oregon is expected to add 12,140 jobs between 2012 and 2022, according to new projections from the Oregon Employment Department — and if that sounds high, you should know that over a year into that timeframe, we’re already topping the estimates. The projection through 2022 represents a 16 percent increase in employment over 10

The City of Redmond has started the process of developing a plan to spend an annual entitlement grant from the Community Development Block Grant program to help fund housing, public services, public infrastructure and economic development needs for low- and moderate- income persons in Redmond. On March 11, 2014, Mayor George Endicott appointed a Citizen