Submitted by Brett Dickson, Conservation Science Partners A study commissioned by the Pew Charitable Trust, a nonprofit think tank found that Southeastern Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands are one of the most ecologically important unprotected places in the western United States. Safeguarding the area “presents a significant opportunity to conserve key elements of native biodiversity and ecological […]
Sherron Lumley
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High Desert Museum
Open ’til Dark Dance
Open 'til Dark is a 1930s dance at the High Desert Museum with a live jazz band, dance lessons and tastings from Oregon Spirits Distillers. It's a rare way to pass a Friday evening, with admission just $7 ($3 for members), and a chance to dance and explore the museum and its latest exhibits after […]
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Magic Realism Grows by Leaps and Bounds
Author! Author! welcomes with Alice Hoffman
The final award-winning literary artist featured in the 2015/16 Author! Author! series is New York Times best-selling author Alice Hoffman, who will speak Thursday, May 26 at Bend High at 7 p.m. The series began in October and included non-fiction, creative fiction, historical fiction and memoir authors, starting with Timothy Egan, 61, a Pulitzer Prize-winning […]
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Oregon Water: NESTLE Drowns Local Voices with Giant Campaign Contributions
Late Filings Show Nestlé Hid at Least $105,000 in Campaign Contributions; Calls Made for State Investigation Hood River County, OR. Nestlé has recently filed extremely late campaign finance reports showing it has been secretly funding a political action front group in Hood River County fighting a ballot measure to block bottled water operations in the […]
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Dear Tenant, You Must Vacate the Premises
Many fear homelessness awaits them
In a quickly gentrifying neighborhood in northwest Bend, just a few blocks from Newport Avenue Market, the 44 people who call the Fireside Lodge Condominiums home will soon be without a basic human need: shelter. Bend’s affordable housing crisis is no longer down the road somewhere in the distant future for them. As market values […]
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House Committee Votes to Require Women to Register for Draft
Congress will decide on “Draft America’s Daughters Act of 2016”
In December, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter lifted all gender-based combat restrictions. Now, the U.S. House Armed Services Committee has voted 32 to 30 for an amendment to the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which if passed by Congress, would require women age 18 to 26 to register for conscription for the first time in […]
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Evie Ladin Band “Jump the Fire”
Released May 6
Evie Ladin opens for the Stray Birds on May 24 at the Old Stone Performing Arts Center (previously the Old Stone Church). The Stray Birds is an acoustic trio on a coast-to-coast tour, stopping by Bend between gigs in Ashland and Eugene. The Evie Ladin Band just released its new album, “Jump the Fire,” earlier […]
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Sunriver Brewing and BBC Win Gold at 2016 World Beer Cup
Submitted by Brian Butenschoen, Oregon Brewers Guild The Brewers Association (BA), announced the results of the 2016 World Beer Cup Awards (WBC) at the conclusion of the Craft Brewers Conference & BrewExpo America® in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on the evening of Friday, May 6, 2016. With the highest number of entries to date, the 2016 edition […]
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Bike Helmets for Kids
Submitted by The Center Foundation Wearing a helmet should be an automatic habit for anyone, regardless of age. Each year, about 400,000 children under the age of 15 are treated in U.S. hospital emergency rooms for bicycle-related injuries, and bicyclists ages 5 to 14 have the highest injury rates of all riders. Helmets provide the […]
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Liz Lawrence
Bend Police Department’s finest
On a recent ride along with Sgt. Liz Lawrence of the Bend Police Department, the integrity, honesty and caring nature of the officer comes across clear as day. Lawrence, who has been a part of Bend's police force for 25 years, makes herself available 24/7 to help people, leading BPD’s mental health unit, called the […]