Bend Power Customers Experience Outages Nearly 5,000 Pacific Power customers in Bend experienced power outages on Aug. 6 at about 9am. According to the Pacific Power operations team, the power outage occurred after a squirrel got into its substation serving the Bend area and caused some damage, resulting in a blown fuse. Power was restored […]
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A Land Swap 20 Years in the Making Could Result in Another Managed Camp. It’s a Good Plan — If It Can Be Done
It would be a shame to see the holdup here be a lack of someone to actually do the work on the ground
Right now, a land swap deal between the Oregon Department of State Lands and Deschutes County, underway for 20 years, is nearing completion. The deal will swap some 137 acres of county land near East Antler Avenue in Redmond for 140 acres of state lands south of the Deschutes County Fair & Expo Center, which […]
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Mt. Bachelor Open New Mixed-Use Trail A new mixed-use trail at Mt. Bachelor, Evergreen, opens Aug. 1. Mt. Bachelor plans to hold a grand opening of the trail at 11:30am, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, giveaways, free drink tokens and guided hikes at the top of the trail. The new trail marks the first designated easy […]
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City of Bend to Improve Safety on Greenwood Avenue At a July 17 meeting, Bend city councilors unanimously approved a project that makes improvements on Greenwood Avenue, creating safer travel for pedestrians, bicyclists and cars, according to a press release. The project will include new protected crosswalks, a buffered bike lane, a reduction in travel […]
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The Ongoing Circus of the Traveling Library
Try to keep up as we outline what users of the Deschutes Public Library are going to experience in the coming years
Try to keep up as we outline what users of the Deschutes Public Library are going to experience in the coming years. As we outlined in a news story last week, DPL is in the midst of building its big new “Central Library” on the far-east side of Bend – a location selected secondarily, after […]
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Limits on Tech Use in Schools Have a Clear Benefit
As we’ve seen with things like tobacco, sometimes the only thing to do to solve a problem as large as the one we are currently seeing among our youth is to regulate it.
Just before the end of the school year, a group called Well Wired began a campaign that aims to get local schools to reconsider how they use technology in classrooms. During the last school board meeting of the year, Bend-La Pine Schools parents expressed concerns about the amount of time their young children were spending […]
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Former Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney Dies at 81 On July 16, former Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney passed away at age 81 from complications related to cancer. Courtney was the longest serving legislator in Oregon history, serving 14 years in the Oregon House and 24 years in the Senate. He retired in January 2023 […]
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Funds to Enhance Water Quality Oregon Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced on July 8 that the U.S. Bureau of reclamation is awarding $299,973 to the Crooked River Water Quality Partnership, in collaboration with the Deschutes River Conservancy. The funding will help develop projects to reduce nutrient pollution in the watershed, enhancing water quality, […]
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On E-Bikes in the Forest, Data Brings Clarity
Who are we to say who belongs and who doesn’t, when the data shows little extra trail maintenance and minimal user conflicts?
In recent years, e-bikes have exploded onto the cycling scene. Parents use them to commute with their kids. People with more limited mobility embrace them as a way to get outside on two wheels. And around the country, an increasing number of trail-network managers have begun to allow limited types of them, even on singletrack […]
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Oregon Enacted Laws Around Homeless Camp Removals in 2023. After the Grants Pass Decision, Will They Be Enough?
Are we destined to listen to endless diatribes about criminalization versus compassion during this election season?
There’s plenty to be concerned about with the recent Supreme Court decision that upholds a ban on camping in Grants Pass, Oregon. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision, saying that laws criminalizing sleeping in public places are not in violation of the Eighth Amendment’s cruel and unusual punishment protections. The case […]
