Bend-La Pine Schools presented its Administrator of the Year award Thursday to school district Director of Transportation Kim Crabtree. The presentation, with bus drivers and other Transportation Department employees cheering her on, capped a week of honoring district employees who stand out in their fields.
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Central Oregon Community College has been busy expanding their Adult Basic Skills program and is now able to help nearly twice as many students achieve their goals as just a year ago.
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R.E. Jewell Elementary School dual immersion educational assistant Araceli Rigney was named Support Person of the Year for Bend-La Pine Schools Wednesday. Rigney was surprised along with staff and students during the first student assembly of the school year.
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Scam phone calls are hard to avoid, but some are more than just a bother – they are downright frightening. The parents of some OSU-Cascades students recently received just such calls, claiming their children had been kidnapped – complete with the sounds of screaming, crying young people.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Bend’s Buckingham Elementary School has been awarded the GOLD level for their efforts to transform STEM education and elevate themselves as a STEM school. It was the culmination of a four-year grant through the Oregon Department of Education. The award was presented at the STEMPOSIUM by Portland Metro STEM Partnership. Tracy Wilson
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CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) — The U.S. Department of Energy has selected a team of researchers led by Oregon State University to receive up to $2.5 million to study what coastal communities think of potential offshore wind energy development and the benefits they could gain from those projects. The funding will be administered by the Pacific Marine Energy Center,
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Fossil researchers have discovered a novel genus and species of tiny wasp with a mysterious, bulbous structure at the end of each antenna.
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Central Oregon Community College will celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day — Monday, Oct. 9 — with two free events on the Bend campus: an instructor-led discussion about historical events and current issues within Native American communities and a bead-making workshop set within historical context.
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OSU-Cascades is recruiting students to fill hundreds of jobs, right on the Bend campus.
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NEWPORT, Ore. (KTVZ) – Commercial whaling in the 20th century decimated populations of large whales but also appears to have had a lasting impact on the genetic diversity of today’s surviving whales, new research from Oregon State University shows. Researchers compared DNA from a collection of whale bones found on beaches near abandoned whaling stations
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — While networking might seem like a long and winding road for many small business owners, the inaugural session of a new series at Central Oregon Community College’s Small Business Development Center, beginning Thursday, Oct. 12 at 5:30 p.m., aims to teach ready techniques for this all-important aspect of business — and
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A parent’s disturbing report that a Ponderosa Elementary School first-grader had made violent threats spread quickly online Monday morning, but a Bend-La Pine Schools official said it was determined to not be “a credible threat.”
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum has joined 19 other attorneys general in urging the Biden Administration to take more steps to protect borrowers as student loan payments resume. Over 40 million borrowers are set to resume making payments beginning Sunday, Oct. 1, following a 3 1/2-year pandemic-related payment pause. In that
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Oregon State University – Cascades will host a slate of events celebrating the history and culture of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. The First Peoples of Central Oregon – Cultural Experiences will take place Friday and Saturday, Oct. 6 and 7 in conjunction with OSU-Cascades’ Discovery Day. “OSU-Cascades is honored to host
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Weeks after criticism prompted Bend-La Pine Schools to remove a sponsorship sign for Bend ammunition-maker Nosler from the Mountain View High football scoreboard, the superintendent has decided to allow a new sign for the sponsor while district sponsorship policies are under review.
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You’ve probably heard of the Peace Corps – but have you heard of the FoodCorps – and were you aware it’s helping Redmond kids embrace healthy eating?
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Oregon State University–Cascades will host its Discovery Day, a campus-wide festival including talks, demonstrations and hands-on activities that showcase OSU’s growing Central Oregon campus, on Saturday, Oct. 7.
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said Thursday that he and Senate colleagues have introduced legislation that would exclude Pell Grants from taxable income and make financial assistance more accessible to students pursuing higher education. “Figuring out how to pay for college is hard enough without having to maneuver the inner workings of the U.S. tax
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Recent high school graduates joined returning college-goers in Wednesday’s first day of fall classes at OSU-Cascades Campus. Some of the freshmen settling in at Obsidian Hall shared with us what appealed to them about the school. “There’s so much outdoor stuff going on out here at Cascades,” Fleet King said. “The
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CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Oregon State University researchers will lead a team of scientists and engineers on a three-year, $1.5 million project to develop and test a team of robots that could travel under ice shelves and collect critical measurements about the extent of ice cavities and surrounding ocean properties. The effort, funded by the
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