Month: July 2015

The Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training has awarded Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Shadoe Majetich the Victor G. Atiyeh Outstanding Student award. This award is named in honor of the former distinguished Governor of the State of Oregon. This prestigious award goes to the student in each basic class who is selected

SMART, Start Making A Reader Today is gearing up for the 4 th annual SMART Art: Show, Sale, Social on October 22, 2015 at 5:15pm at Kendall Toyota in Bend. Each year, SMART invites young artists to participate in the Art Contest connected with SMART Art. This year we would like to invite the community

Aided by cooler temperatures and higher relative humidity, firefighters made substantial progress Monday toward containment of the Marion Fire, which is still 120 acres and now about 90 percent contained, officials said Tuesday. “The weather did us a huge favor,” said Incident Commander Chad Calderwood. “Firefighters were able to take full advantage of the conditions

At the request of President Obama, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown on Tues day ordered flags lowered to half-staff at all public institutions untilsunset on Saturday in honor of the victims of the Chattanooga shootings. “It is becoming all too frequent that we mourn lives lost to gun violence within the borders of our country,” Governor

Central Oregon Builders Association is proud to announce the winners of the third-year partnership for the AmeriTitle Chefs on Tour. “Working with AmeriTitle on this marquee event is always a pleasure, and the community has thoroughly embraced the event making it a huge success for all who took part in attending & exhibiting,” said Tim

An accident involving a dump truck near a northeast Bend intersection Monday morning damaged a fiber-optic data line, cutting Internet, TV and phone service for thousands across the region for up to 10 hours, making for big headaches at the workweek began and prompting closure of four DMV offices. “This has impacted a lot of

There were no significant changes to Central Oregon’s employment situation in June, though Deschutes County’s jobless rate saw the biggest rise in some time, the state Employment Department reported Tuesday. “Hiring was fairly consistent with what we typically see in early summer,” Regional Economist Damon Runberg. “Unemployment was largely unchanged with the exception of Deschutes

Pacific Power warned its customers and the public Tuesday of a phone scam targeting utility customers in the Northwest where criminals posing as utility customer service agents are trying to get money and steal personal information. The fraud is occurring nationwide, but recent days have seen an upsurge in the Northwest, officials said. The thieves

The Center Foundation has selected Sonja Donohue as its new executive director. Donohue will oversee the non-profit organization that is solely dedicated to providing sports medicine as a means to ensure that Central Oregon youth are safe, healthy and protected in an active lifestyle. She fills the vacancy created by Carol Stiles’ retirement in June.

A concrete truck driver from La Pine remained in critical condition Monday night at St. Charles Bend after an early-morning rollover crash on a remote portion of state Highway 31 near the Lake-Klamath County line, officials said. Fire Chief Mike Supkis said crews responded at 5:13 a.m. to a report that the truck had rolled

A free document shredding and drug disposal event will take place from 10 a.m. to noon next Saturday at the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Substation in Sisters, 703 N. Larch Avenue. There is no cost to the public for up to 4 medium size boxes of personal documents. Shredding The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office and

The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission will meet next Monday in Salem for a special meeting to adopt amended administrative rules for sage grouse management. The commission agenda will be limited to the sage grouse rules, adoption of recent temporary rules, and approval of past meeting minutes. The meeting will be held at the ODFW

More hot weather and a lot of downed wood and snags from an old fire challenged firefighters Monday as they fought to contain a lightning-sparked, 120-acre fire near Marion Lake in the Mt. Jefferson Wilderness Area. About 100 firefighters worked late into Sunday evening fighting the Maion Fire. Officials said the containment estimate was expected

Bend firefighters responded to a pair of unrelated natural gas line leaks within about 15 minutes of each other Monday morning, officials said. The first was called in at 9:15 a.m., at the corner of McNeal Way and LaBiche Lane off Northwest Shevlin Park Road, when a backhoe bucket dropped onto a 2-inch gas line.

A speeding driver pursued by police in downtown Prineville was critically injured early Saturday when he ran a stop sign and crashed into one car, then lost control and smashed into three cars parked on the street, leaving a trail of heavy damage, police and witnesses said. The driver, identified as Chaz Evans, 23, of

A 23-year-old Lincoln City man was hospitalized after crashing his speeding motorcycle through a barbed-wire fence off Lone Pine Road northwest of Prineville, Crook County sheriff’s deputies said. A sheriff’s sergeant and Redmond Fire and Rescue medics were dispatched around 2:30 a.m. on a 911 call from a witness to the single-vehicle crash at the

OSU-Cascades held an orientation day on Friday for the first class of the four-year college in Bend. The incoming class is without a campus as construction on the controversial new campus on Bend’s Westside has just started. That delay did not help in recruiting students. Officials were hoping for around 100 freshmen, but that have

ODOT and Bend police are advising travelers to be ready for delays on the routes for the upcoming Cascade Cycling Classic, including: On Wednesday July 22 (10AM-3PM): Cyclists will be on US 26 from Madras to Prineville, then onto OR 126 to the Millican Highway. They return to OR 126 at the Powell Butte Highway

The 2015 Oregon High Desert Classics presented by the Oxford Hotel began Wednesday and continues next week. Horses, people and thousands of dollars flow into the event and the region every year. The ODHC has raised more than $2.5 million over the past 10 years for J Bar J Youth Services. J Bar J Ranch

The front line of a wildfire is dirty, exhausting and dangerous, but where would firefighting heroes be without the ones you’ve never seen — the ones most don’t know about? The U.S. Forest Service runs 15 fire support centers located around the country. One of them is in Redmond, where 56 employees spend their summers