Bend’s Hayden Homes Amphitheater recently received several honors for its sustainability and recycling efforts, from diverting waste from landfills to adding 300 bike parking spots.
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The family that brought McDonald’s to Bend a half-century ago is still behind the counter, and celebrated the golden anniversary of the Golden Arches on the High Desert Monday with 50-cent cheeseburgers for a few hours.
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We have another monthly ‘Ask the Mayor’ segment next Wednesday at Sunrise with Bend Mayor Melanie Kebler. Feel free to submit your questions to us – anonymously, if you wish, at https://ktvz.com/ask-the-mayor/,
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The nonprofit Bend Endurance Academy held an open house Sunday to show off its new youth climbing facility, for kids ranging from 7 years old college age.
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A neighbor used an extinguisher to help stop a cooking fire spreading from the kitchen of a southeast Bend home Friday evening, but not before about $30,000 in damage, officials said. The cause was traced to cooking oil that spilled on a hot stove burner and ignited.
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Veterans Day is a time we thank and honor America’s veterans for their service to our country. The 22nd annual Bend Veterans Day Parade set off on a windy but bright Saturday morning, with dozens of entries and thousands of well-wishers lining the streets of downtown and the city’s westside, many waving flags and saluting those who served our nation in times of peace and war.
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Bob is the latest Bend feature taking the spotlight, far and wide. In this case it’s really B.O.B., which stands for Big Obvious Boulder. But this “rock star” was obviously not obvious enough to several drivers who landed on top of it.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Community committees are a great way to get involved with the City government. The Bend Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) has an opening for a position on the MPO Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) and Budget Committee. How to apply for this committee Fill out the online advisory committee application form at bendoregon.gov/government/committees/apply. Applicants may come
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Bend Heroes Foundation and volunteers will install 275 flags at Bend Heroes Memorial in Brooks Park and downtown Bend on Saturday, Veterans Day, beginning at 7:00 a.m. The Memorial is located along the Deschutes River in Brooks Park (corner of Newport Avenue and Drake Road). All flags were previously flown
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A patriotic tradition continued in Red, White and Blue fashion at Bend High on Thursday as dozens of area veterans came to the campus for a warm welcome — and thanks. The annual event celebrated more than 90 veterans and learned from their journeys.
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Beginning next Monday, a temporary traffic realignment will be in place on U.S. Highway 97 between Grandview Drive and Empire Avenue on Bend’s north end for about the next eight months, part of the next phase of the Bend North Corridor Project, the Oregon Department of Transportation said Thursday.
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Bend’s median home sales price dropped a bit in October while Redmond’s rose a bit, but there were no dramatic shifts seen in the monthly report from Redmond’s Beacon Appraisal Group.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day honors the bravery of Ruby Bridges walking to Franz Elementary school as the first and only Black student in 1960. “It is the perfect opportunity to teach children about the civil rights movement and make connections to today’s collective efforts for change,” Central Oregon’s Commute
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The High Desert Museum is excited to announce the name of the bobcat who arrived as a small kitten and is now a full-grown cat: Timber!
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Another summer 2024 concert for Bend’s Hayden Homes Amphitheater was announced Thursday: the Irish musician, singer and songwriter Andrew John Hozier-Byrne, better known as Hozier, who will bring his “Unreal Unearth Tour” to town on Sept. 4, 2024. Here are the details from Live Nation: Award-winning, RIAA-Diamond certified singer/songwriter Hozier’s most extensive headlining
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First-year student enrollment at Oregon State University–Cascades has increased for the ninth consecutive year, with a 2023 fall class of 225 students representing the largest in OSU-
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A Pacific Power contractor doing drilling work to replace a power pole hit a two-inch natural gas line in northeast Bend Wednesday morning, prompting closure of several blocks of U.S. Highway 20 (Greenwood Avenue) and cutting service to over 100 Cascade Natural Gas customers.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — On Nov. 28, KIDS Center will make it easy for Central Oregonians to give back and help end child abuse on this national day of giving. Staff and volunteers will be outside KIDS Center on Giving Tuesday, encouraging passersby to drive up and donate to support the nonprofit’s child abuse prevention
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BEND, Oregon (KTVZ) — You see them at every concert over the summer at Hayden Homes Amphitheater, members of the Green Team roaming the venue picking up trash and manning receptacles to help you figure out your waste. What’s recyclable? What’s compostable? Where’s the food waste go? And what’s just plain ol’ trash? Beyond that,
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A recent speaker in Bend provided gardeners with strategies to reduce their reliance on chemical pesticides because insects can be caught in the crosshairs, Tracee Tuesday reports.
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