Progress on the Bear Creek Road, Pettigrew Road, and Purcell Boulevard roundabout construction is ahead of schedule due to remarkable coordination among the project teams. Crews now anticipate completing the work within this year’s construction season, with no need for an additional intersection closure next spring. Please note the Bear Creek Road, Pettigrew Road, and […]
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Abstrax’s Extracts Are on the Nose
Cannabis industry’s flavorists spark new joint for brewers
I‘d like to open by issuing Abstrax’s national sales manager, Barbara Stone, an apology. In discussing the brave new world of smell and taste wrought by Abstrax’s 100% plant-derived terpene extracts—a terpene being the aromatic compound found in all plant life and notoriously central to the world of cannabis—I provincially asked if dosing cannabis products […]
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Woman Arrested After Setting Two Small Fires Bend Police arrested a 45-year-old Bend woman in connection with two brush fires near Sawyer Park. Shortly after 11pm on Saturday, July 26, multiple callers reported a fire on the west side of the Deschutes River. Bend Fire & Rescue quickly contained the fire, then requested law enforcement […]
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Two Candidates Announce Intent to Run for Deschutes County Commissioner
Next May voters will elect four commissioners in what will soon be a five-member commission
Two people have announced their intention to run for a seat on Deschutes County’s Board of County Commissioners next spring. The current three-person commission is in the process of outlining districts for a five-person commission, after voters approved increasing the size of the commission in 2024. One of the people who led the effort for […]
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Swift Water & K-9 Teams Lead Search at Dillon Falls
Floater Missing Since July 19
Search and recovery efforts at Dillon Falls continued this week for a man swept over Dillon Falls on July 19. Two women died in the same incident. The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office says swift water experts worked in and around Class 5 rapids, tethered to safety systems while navigating hazardous conditions near the waterfalls. Professional […]
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Ty Rupert, Long-Serving Captain,Tapped for Deschutes County Interim Sheriff
County Commission appoints Rupert to lead the agency through the 2026 election cycle
The Deschutes County Board of County Commissioners appointed veteran Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Captain Ty Rupert to the role of Interim Sheriff on July 29. All five candidates for the position, which will run 18 months through the 2026 Election Cycle, were present for Tuesday’s vote of the Board, including James McLaughlin, Paul Kansky, Deron […]
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Woman Arrested After Setting Two Small Fires
Multiple callers reported incidents
Bend Police arrested a 45-year old Bend woman in connection with two brush fires near Sawyer Park. Shortly after 11pm on Saturday, July 26, multiple callers reported a fire on the west side of the Deschutes River. Bend Fire & Rescue quickly contained the fire, then requested law enforcement assistance for a second fire that […]
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Running Out of Fresh Air
Local athletic events adapt to annual smoke season
Central Oregon’s summer recreation season now comes with an unwelcome, routine companion: thick, choking smoke. What was once an occasional annoyance has become a regular threat, forcing everyone from weekend hikers to competitive athletes to rethink their outdoor plans. Smoke threatens vulnerable groups and athletes alike Those with sensitive immune systems, like pregnant women, children […]
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Brewing Up Expansions
Initiative Brewing, Sunriver Brewing Company and Wild Ride Brewing grow regional
Three Redmond-based brewpubs have expanded throughout Central Oregon in the last several years. Wild Ride Brewing expanded to Prineville in 2022, with Initiative Brewing and Sunriver Brewing Company expanding more recently. Brian Mitchell, co-founder of Wild Ride Brewing, agrees that production and taprooms have felt economic challenges but says, “In general, both of our Taprooms […]
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Rare Orphaned Flying Squirrel Rescued by Think Wild
Bend, Oregon — Think Wild, Central Oregon’s wildlife hospital and conservation center, has admitted an orphaned Northern flying squirrel for rehabilitation. The young female squirrel was found on July 20, 2025, in the middle of a trail at Virginia Meissner Sno-Park near Bend. The finder initially thought the squirrel was deceased, but she began to […]
