Month: October 2014

The Bend-La Pine Schools community has much to celebrate with the release of the Oregon Department of Education’s Report Card. Twenty-four of the district’s 28 schools earned the state’s top rankings of 4 or 5. Seven schools – Amity Creek Magnet School, High Lakes Elementary School, Highland Magnet School, Juniper Elementary School, Westside Village Magnet

Don’t miss a wonderful time of celebrating the newly opened North County Health Services Building in Redmond! An October 28 open house and Redmond Chamber ribbon cutting mark the opening of the new building. The open house celebration takes place on Tuesday, October 28, from 4 to 6:00 p.m. at 406 W. Antler Ave. in

For the third year in a row, NeighborImpact is named one of the 100 best nonprofits to work for by Oregon Business Magazine. The organization improves over its 2013 ranking of 32 nd to 27 th in 2014. This is a highly competitive process, with over 5,500 employees from 180 nonprofits participating in the survey.

Central Oregon business and civic leaders are being called to the Bend-La Pine Schools principals’ offices through the Education Foundation’s annual Principal of the Day “friend” raiser. On Wednesday, November 12th, community leaders are invited to serve as the “honorary principal” to learn the joys and challenges that our local administrators face. “Principal of the

AARP Foundation Tax-Aide, the nation’s largest free, volunteer-run tax preparation and assistance service, is seeking volunteers across Oregon to help Oregon taxpayers who are seeking assistance preparing and filing their 2014 tax returns. Last year, more than 1200 Tax-Aide volunteers helped over 52,000 taxpayers across the state of Oregon. They joined more than 35,000 Tax-Aide

On Thursday afternoon, charter members of 100+ Women Who Care of Central Oregon presented their first official donation to the Bethlehem Inn, a homeless shelter in Bend. This new fundraising organization handed over checks totaling $18,155. “The Inn was thrilled to have the opportunity to share our story with such a dynamic group of women,

The city of Redmond recently launched a Bike Walk Roll Redmond campaign to encourage residents to think about how the city can help residents bike, walk and roll around town. “The reality is that Redmond should be such an easy place for residents to bike, walk and roll to destinations around town. We are relatively

October marks the end of the irrigation season in the Deschutes River Basin, where water flows have been managed the same way for the past 65 years — until this year. That’s because last year, people discovered a large fish kill on a side channel of the Upper Deschutes River at Lava Island Falls, due

The city of Prineville has agreed to have its insurance company pay fired police chief Eric Bush $666,701 – the maximum allowed by state law – to resolve a $2.5 million lawsuit he filed over his dismissal earlier this year, his attorney and city officials said Thursday. “The city of Prineville has elected not to

One of the car owners hit by by this week’s window-smashing vandals in southeast Bend said Thursday he heard it happen, but didn’t realize what was going on. Police say the windows on at least 14 cars parked in southeast Bend were shattered with a BB or pellet gun or something similar late Tuesday or

Oregon voters soon will decide whether to join Washington and California in adopting a “top-two” primary election system. Currently, the two major parties, the Democrats and Republicans, choose their nominees in the May primary. Under Measure 90, those primaries would be abolished and replaced with a nonpartisan primary, putting all candidates on a single ballot.

Fuels specialists on the Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District began a 597-acre prescribed burn on Thursday, 14 miles southeast of Bend near Company Butte. The burn will likely take up to three days to complete, officials said. The project was planned by the Deschutes National Forest in conjunction with Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to

A 29-year-old former California woman’s decision to move to Oregon and take her life with the assistance of doctors has gone viral — reinvigorating a nationwide debate over the right to die. “I will die upstairs in my bedroom that I share with my husband, with my mother and husband by my side… and pass

Two unrelated overnight traffic stops on the north side of Bend led to the call-out of at a Bend drug-detection dog and three arrests on drug possession and other charges, police said Thursday. In the first incident, a Bend man allegedly resisted arrest and fought with officers, while two residents were charged with illegal possession

Prineville police said Thursday they are still looking for whoever stole a pickup truck near a downtown tavern Wednesday night and abandoned it near a grocery store – then fired a shot from a hunting rifle taken from inside the truck. Police and Crook County sheriff’s deputies responded around 8:45 p.m. to reports of a

This year, 28 high-poverty schools in 20 Oregon districts — four in Central Oregon — made strong gains or sustained high levels of performance to earn Model School designations, the Oregon Department of Education said Thursday as it released “school report cards.” Deputy Superintendent Rob Saxton released the report cards for all of Oregon’s K-12

Officers Serve as Celebrity Waiters/Waitresses for Tip-A-Cop Fundraiser Red Robin and Law Enforcement to raise funds to benefit Special Olympics Who: Special Olympics Oregon, local Law Enforcement agencies, and Red Robin What: Red Robin to host Tip-A-Cop to support Special Olympics Oregon When: October 11, 2014 11 a.m.-3 p.m. 4 p.m.-8 p.m. Where: Red Robin;

No playgrounds. No neatly mowed grass fields. No mountain bike trails. The Bend Park and Recreation District is taking a new approach in the development of one of its newest parks, Riley Ranch Nature Preserve. “This is a place that people need to experience on foot,” said project manager Jim Figurski. Funded as part of

Reports of shots fired in a southwest Redmond neighborhood Tuesday evening led to a resident’s arrest and the call-out of two bomb squad units after military munitions were found in the home, though they later were found to be non-functioning, police said Wednesday. Police responded around 6:40 p.m. Tuesday to reports from worried neighbors of

A Seneca-area man who was the subject of an intensive day-long manhunt in Grant County was taken into custody Wednesday afternoon, ending a tense period of highway and school closures, Sheriff Glenn Palmer said. Shane Sanders will be lodged in the Grant County Jail on several charges, including menacing and unlawful use of a weapon