Month: November 2015

Organic products are nothing new, but many don’t know about organic cannabis. “This is all organic,” Christina Fehrs, owner at The Good Leaf dispensary in Bend, said Friday. “You want to make sure you’re not putting anything negative into your body.” Fehrs said more and more customers are requesting organic cannabis. At The Good Leaf,

A drunk driver crashed his pickup into and damaged a phone utility box in northeast Bend Friday afternoon, and witness information led to the Prineville man’s arrest at the other end of town on DUII, hit-and-run and other charges, police said. Police learned shortly before 3 p.m. of a hit-and-run crash in the area of

An Oregon scientist is aiming to eliminate HIV, once and for all. Dr. Louis Picker has been on a mission to wipe out the human immunodeficiency virus ever since he graduated from medical school at the start of the AIDS epidemic in the early ’80s. Picker has been working on an HIV vaccine for 15

The Oregon Liquor Control Commission on Friday announced a series of workshops to be held in December to provide information about the OLCC Recreational Marijuana License program. Five workshops are scheduled around the state, the first Dec. 3 in Bend, and will include a review of the Temporary Rules regulating the Recreational Marijuana industry, an

On Veteran’s Day, Dutch Bros locations in Central Oregon joined forces with their community to raise a total of $5,348 for local Veterans,$2,674 will benefit Central Oregon Veteran’s Outreach and $2,674 will benefitWarfighter Outfitters. “The turnout we saw in all three cities was amazing!” said Kaelyn Costa, Dutch Bros Central Oregon owner.”So many of our

Governor Kate Brown issued the following statement in response to the terrorist attacks in Paris, France: “I am sickened and profoundly saddened by the violence inflicted on the people of Paris, France today. Those responsible must be brought to justice, and we must stand together as a nation and as members of a global community

Deschutes County is currently accepting applications for its Audit Committee. Audit Committee members are appointed by the Board of County Commissioners and play a role in overseeing and advising on internal and external audit activities performed for the County. Citizens with financial or local government experience are encouraged to apply. Committee members are asked to

A new feature on the BottleDrop Redemption Center website is making it easier than ever to support BrightSide Animal Center while keeping bottles and cans out of Oregon streams and landfills. Our organization is now registered on www.bottledropcenters.com, allowing the existing 80,000 BottleDrop account holders to make direct donations to our cause online. Anyone with

With snow expected this weekend in the higher elevations, the Deschutes National Forest will close Forest Road 370 and the Broken Top Trailhead beginning Friday, officials said. Additionally, the Forest Service will close gates that access Forest Road 370 at the Todd Lake Trailhead, Forest Road 4601 and Forest Road 16. These closures will remain

It’s been nearly 15 years since Cascade School of Music first struck a chord with the residents of Central Oregon. Beginning with 50 students, classes were held on the campus of Sagewood School, a small, private Waldorf School on O.B. Riley Road. Today, the nonprofit program serves more than 500 students from a Bend Park

Two Prineville residents escaped serious injuries, but one was cited after a rollover crash of a pickup truck Thursday night on the O’Neil Highway, Crook County sheriff’s deputies said. Deputies and Crook County Fire and Rescue medics responded around 8:50 p.m. to the single-vehicle crash on O’Neil Highway (state Highway 370) at milepost 8.7, about

Rural Deschutes County residents, some who received anonymous notes of alarm in their mailboxes, packed a second planning commission hearing Thursday night to voice their concerns about the potential of numerous recreational marijuana-growing businesses in their neighborhoods. The unsigned notices claimed, among other things, that large pot grows will have irreversible negative effects on their

Sisters-area residents expressed shock Thursday and fire officials provided more details after burglars broke into a fire station and made off with about $17,000 worth of lifesaving and firefighting gear, from automated defibrillators to chain saws and thermal imagers. Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies responded around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday to the reported burglary at the Sisters-Camp

A 20-year mainstay of Bend’s brewing community, Bend Brewing Co., is being sold to a father-son team, its owner confirmed to NewsChannel 21 late Thursday, assuring that it will stay in place and the workers will stay aboard. Owner Wendi Day said the deal is in its early stages and she was not yet ready

Taking advantage of the cooler weather, fuels specialists plan to burn nearly 200 acres of slash piles next week within about a mile of Camp Sherman and within the Glaze Forest Restoration area, officials said Friday Beginning as early as Monday and continuing through the week, fuels specialists are planning to burn three units of

Down a long gravel road east of Madras, the headlights hit the trail of blood, then shone further, where the suspect waited next to the body. Oregon State Police say it happens all the time in Central Oregon. What’s more rare is catching these poachers in the act. But that’s exactly what happened on Oct.

A kinetic art installation built around 10 stylized aspen trees has been selected by Art in Public Places for the new Murphy Road and Third Street roundabout, the organization announced Wednesday. Gilded River is comprised of 22-foot-high trees and hundreds of colorful kinetic leaves to create a unique visual experience, they said. Light shines through

The Central Oregon Reserve Law Enforcement Officer Academy will hold commencement exercises for the class of 2015 in the auditorium of Redmond High School, 675 SW Rimrock.Way, Redmond, on Saturday, Nov. 14 at 11:00 AM. The eight graduates represent six Central Oregon Law Enforcement agencies including the Sheriff=s Offices of Crook and Deschutes counties and

A hunter out on a Veterans Day outing heard faint cries for help and brought rescuers to a missing Gulf War veteran, who told deputies he had survived about four days in the woods by eating dog food and drinking water from puddles and ice. On Saturday, the Lane County Sheriff’s Office listed Timothy John

Thereare nearly 10,000 food establishments licensed by the Oregon Department ofAgriculture and 37 food safety inspectors responsible for checking up on thosebusinesses. Trying to getto every facility on an annual basis is difficult, ifnot impossible. But thanks to ODA’s Weights and Measures Program, another setof trained eyes are helping provide some basic oversight of low