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One Class at a Time: We visit Sisters High School’s Lifeskills class with $500
Congrats to the Lifeskills program in Sisters — and this will help them get fun puzzles and…
Continue ReadingDon’t blame Adele. Concert cancellations and postponements will become common due to Covid
CNN By Marianne Garvey Some would-be concertgoers are disappointed Adele has postponed her Las Vegas residency — just one day before it was set…
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Assistance League of Bend gives out free gloves, hats for kids
The Assistance League of Bend gave out free hats and gloves for youngsters Thursday at a NeighborImpact Mobile Food Bank stop at Redmond High School.…
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Special Olympics Polar Plunge fundraiser returns to frigid Deschutes on Feb. 5
Oregonians have a longstanding and beloved winter tradition of Plunging into the frigid waters of the Deschutes each winter to raise money and…
Continue ReadingFormer Trump campaign adviser acknowledges being part of 2020 ‘alternate electors’ plot
CNN By Sonnet Swire Boris Epshteyn, an adviser for former President Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign, acknowledged Friday that he was…
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Bend city councilors OK $4.55 million purchase of Rainbow Motel site
Bend city councilors Wednesday night unanimously approved the city buying a just over one-acre site at 154 NE Franklin Avenue, which includes the…
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State posts second-highest HS graduation rate; Crook County HS touts 98% rate, highest in C.O.
Despite the continued challenges of COVID-19, Oregon’s statewide high school graduation rate for the class of 2020-21 was 80.6 percent, the…
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Two years into pandemic, Oregon hospitals still struggling
Oregon Association of Hospitals CEO Becky Hultberg said Thursday, “There is a war going on in our hospitals against this virus that isn’t visible to…
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Proposed Oregon mask mandate extension draws fire
The Oregon Health Authority heard plenty of negative views Thursday at a hearing on plans to make an expiring temporary mask mandate “permanent,”…
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‘Covid fatigue’ impacting mask enforcement at some C.O. businesses
Traci Haley is the co-owner of the Yo Central frozen yogurt shop in Prineville, and she acknowledges “Covid fatigue is…
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Continue ReadingCovid-19 hospitalizations are dropping in the Northeast. In other parts of the country, they’re rising
CNN By Christina Maxouris, CNN During what has been another devastating surge of Covid-19 across the country, there is good news: Some states are…
Continue ReadingCovid-19 vaccinations do not impair fertility in men or women, study finds
CNN, POOL, WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, KOAT, WISN, MOORE POLICE By Jacqueline Howard, CNN A new study adds to growing evidence that there is no…
Continue ReadingFAA approves more airliners — including some smaller, regional jets — to fly near 5G towers
CNN, CNNBUSINESS By Pete Muntean The Federal Aviation Administration has cleared more commercial airliners — notably more smaller, regional…
Continue ReadingFact-checking six claims from Biden’s news conference
CNN By Daniel Dale President Joe Biden held a news conference on Wednesday to mark the end of the first year of his presidency. Biden made at least…
Continue ReadingWhat’s going on in your mind matters. Changing your expectations can mean more success, experts say
CNN By Madeline Holcombe, CNN “I think therefore I am,” mind over matter, the little engine that thought he could — our…
Continue ReadingDA for Atlanta area requests special grand jury to probe Trump’s election interference
CNN By Sara Murray, Jason Morris and Zachary Cohen, CNN A district attorney in the Atlanta area investigating former President Donald Trump’s…
Continue ReadingBlinken warns any Russian ‘invasion’ of Ukraine would be met with a ‘severe and a united response’ following Lavrov meeting
CNN By Jeremy Herb, Veronica Stracqualursi and Vasco Cotovio, CNN US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that any Russian invasion of Ukraine…
Continue ReadingPlans to close all but one polling place in a rural Georgia county reverberate through a battleground state
CNN, KBOI By Fredreka Schouten, CNN Election officials in a rural Georgia county are weighing plans to close all but one polling place ahead of this…
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