Former Deschutes County District Attorney Mike Dugan found himself in the limelight again this the last week when it was reported that Dugan has thrown his hat into the ring for Redmond's top law enforcement job. Dugan has been between jobs since he was defeated in the Democratic primary last May by one of his former chief deputies, Patrick Flaherty.
Eric Flowers
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Dog Owners Deserve Equality Opportunities
dogs, trails, leash, deschutes
A cross country skier without a dog can spend half an hour skiing the two-mile beginner loop at Swampy Sno-Park and then spend days skiing the other 98 or so miles of trails along Cascade Lakes Highway. A skier with a dog can ski the two-mile Wanoga Trail and then.
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Too Much of a Good Thing: Fish advocates and farmers say there is enough water to go around for all users on the Crooked River. So why can't they figure out how to share it?
Fish advocates and farmers say there is enough water to go around for all users on the Crooked River. So why can't they figure out how to share it?
Russ Rhoden has two pictures that he likes to show visitors to his Prineville office. The first is an aerial photo taken sometime in the first half of the 20th century and shows much of Prineville submerged under spring flood waters, the rooftops poking up like little tar paper islands. The other shot is a more recent photo of the upper Crooked River, or more precisely the bed of the upper Crooked River since there isn't a drop of water in the frame. It's a somewhat rare but well-documented occurrence that happens when there isn't enough snow and rain to recharge the river through the hot summer months. The former manager of the Prineville-based Ochoco Irrigation District, Rhoden has spent the last two decades thinking about snow pack, dam releases and river diversions. And if anybody is qualified to talk about the Crooked River's fickle temperament, it's Rhoden.
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Hayes Should Be Praised
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Feds, not Mayans,
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Time to Put America on a New Course
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Pay Now, Pay Later: Economist says city would save with an all groundwater system
Providing one of the most compelling arguments yet against a proposed $70-million drinking water project, a natural resources economist said Tuesday night that the city of Bend stands to save several million dollars annually if it forestalls a planned upgrade to its surface water supply and transfers to an all-groundwater system for the time being.
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More Than a Stretch: The Archer, a homegrown exercise revolution
The Archer, designed by a Bend, Oregon local, is a device that allows for a more complete back stretch.
It was necessity, the mother of all inventions, that led Londi Palmisano to come up with a better way to stretch. A former massage therapist for 10 years, Palmisano was working in Austin in the 1990s when she started noticing how many of her clients were complaining of back pain and tightness. Palmisano knew the answer was better stretching, primarily in a backward direction. Even bending down to touch your toes requires a certain degree of flexibility, and certainly bending in a backward direction with ease was nearly impossible.
So Palmisano began to imagine a simple device that would put her clients in the right position and allow them to stretch in a backward direction comfortably and effectively. After talking to a builder, friend Palmisano sketched the outline of her idea.
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The Longest Silence: Celilo Falls exhibit comes to Bend's Arts Central
Cate O'Hagan has a personal connection to the long ago silenced Celilo Falls, the once-roaring river passage on the Columbia river that sustained countless generations of Native Americans who plucked migrating salmon by the dozens from its churning waters.
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Eyeing Expansion, 10 Barrel Woos BBC and Deschutes Brewers
Bend, Oregon’s 10 Barrel Brewing plans sizable expansion.
The upstart 10 Barrel Brewery is poised for a major expansion and has lured two of the area's top brewers to help it with the effort that would more than quadruple the Bend brewery's production capacity.