Month: June 2014

With the help of citizens, several police agencies and a Redmond police K-9 team, a 30-year-old Bend man who ran from police in northeast Bend Sunday was found hours later, hiding in a backyard shed, and arrested in a beer-bottle assault at a tavern earlier this month, police said. Shortly after 10 a.m., a Bend

The recent thefts of a half-dozen bikes left unlocked and accessible in a northeast Bend neighborhood were solved with the arrest of four teens, police said Sunday. They warned residents to take steps to prevent such summertime crimes of opportunity. Officers were dispatched around 9:25 p.m. Friday to one of the reported bike thefts in

A Prineville man was arrested on DUII and other charges after the ATV he was driving crashed into a tree in the Maury Mountains Friday night, sending a Bend man to the hospital by helicopter, Crook County sheriff’s deputies said. Deputies joined by medics from Crook County Fire and Rescue and the Rager Ranger District

By July 1, the Kiwanis Club of Redmond and the City of Redmond are seeking your help to raise $47,700 to secure a match of $112,500 that will complete the fundraising for the first phase of the Sam Johnson Park renovation. In May an anonymous donor pledged to match up to $112,500 in community pledges

UPDATE: The remains of Janice Hickman and Amoz Hickman arrived in La Pine this morning. Janice’s husband Greg, son Axcyl Hickman and his wife Ellie transported the bodies from Flagstaff, Arizona. A barbecue fundraiser and dessert auction for the Hickman family will take place this Wednesday, the 25th, at 5 PM the La Pine Community

A 32-year-old Prineville man was arrested Thursday night on charges he lured a female acquaintance to an unoccupied home and sexually assaulted her, police said. Police had investigated a Wednesday incident, saying Bobby Joe Sorg lured the adult female acquaintance into an unoccupied home in the 700 block of South Main Street and assaulted her,

Starting Monday, a couple of road construction projects begin that will affect traffic along Shevlin Park Road, Northwest Crossing Drive and Mt. Washington Drive. Drivers should expect delays for part of the week. Taylor Northwest LLC will close Shevlin Park Road between the Northwest Crossing Drive/Shevlin Park Road roundabout and the Mt. Washington Drive/Shevlin Park

Redmond School District Superintendent Mike McIntosh has announced the selection of Trevor Flaherty as principal for Terrebonne Community School. Flaherty will replace outgoing Terrebonne principal Tom Yahraes, who accepted an assistant superintendent position in Montana. Flaherty is currently the assistant principal at Jefferson County Middle School in Madras. Prior to working in the Jefferson County

Oregon State Police said Friday they are looking for a green mid-’90s Honda Accord and its driver who witnesses saw in the vicinity of of a fatal May 22nd car-motorcycle crash on Highway 97 near Lava Butte, south of Bend. OSP troopers investigating the cause of the crash are looking for the lone occupant of

Jim Porter was named the permanent chief of the Bend Police Department Friday after serving as the interim chief for five months. “It’s unique,” Porter said of the announcement by City Manager Eric King. “I never thought to become police chief in my career.” Porter has a case with all his badges from his career

In its first year as a part of the Oregon Senior Games, pickleball has drawn competitors from all over the country, including two friends from Florida. Gail Brown and Diane Reynolds share 38 years of friendship and a love of pickleball. They’ve been traveling across the country, playing in tournaments in 21 different states. It’s

Rapidly increasing wildfire danger has prompted the Oregon Department of Forestry to tighten public fire prevention restrictions in its Central Oregon District as of Saturday morning. Effective at 6 a.m. Saturday, t hese restrictions will be in force on private and non-federal public forestlands in 12 counties including Harney, Morrow, Grant, Wheeler, Gilliam, Hood River,

In Dogtown USA — also known as Bend — you can’t be too surprised national “Take your Dog to Work Day” was a hit. “It’s really cool, because we get to bring our best friends to work,” Kendall Central Oregon Warranty Administrator Linda Cook said Friday. In fact, many Bendites just call it everyday life,

The battle usually reserved for the turf is now heating up off the field: Native American mascots. The controversy is at center stage after the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this week pulled the Washington Redskins football team’s trademark — calling the name “disparaging to Native Americans.” “It is degrading to Native American Indians,” Warm

Bend City Manager Eric King announced Friday he has appointed interim Police Chief Jim Porter to the permanent position. Porter has been working in the interim role since January, when Jeff Sale was fired, and has been with the Bend Police Department for 23 years. “Upon meeting with community partners and members of the police

Utility bills in Bend are on the rise again, following a vote of the city council, and the string of increases has many residents frustrated. “Not something that I’m happy about,” resident Jennifer Cox said Thursday. “We pay quite a bit, in the way of utilities.” Councilors voted Wednesday night to hike water rates by

Is carbon neutrality a possibility in Bend? A visiting California city’s mayor thinks it is — his city is closing in on that goal. Lancaster, Calif., Mayor R. Rex Parris told city councilors Wednesday night and a City Club of Central Oregon audience Thursday that he believes a carbon neutral city is the way to

Dozens of families fighting poverty and homelessness in Central Oregon will continue to receive housing, thanks to a $507,804 grant from the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department. NeighborImpact’s transitional housing program was one of 18 projects in Oregon to receive funding as part of the second round of HUD’s Continuum of Care program. NeighborImpact,

Brent Bundy is riding his bike across the country this summer on to spread awareness about breast cancer. He left Seaside on June 1st and just reached Bend,. He expects to reach Stanton Island, New York by the end of August. He has completed this trip twice before and this year it is in honor

The Bryant Fire reported Thursday afternoon burning 20 miles east of Klamath Falls on the northeast side of Bryant Mountain has grown to 800 acres, officials said Friday. The fire is burning in an active logging operation in felled and bucked timber on steep, rugged terrain. The fire is spotting in all directions, they said.