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With a tentative contract on the table over the past several weeks, the nurses at St. Charles Medical Center have voted in favor to ratify their four-and-a-half year contract. A majority of the over 900 nurses at St. Charles needed to sign on to complete the ratification—so after months of back and forth, many people […]
Imagine your son gets run off a bridge, Molotov cocktails are thrown through your window and the word “sh*t” is written with sewage in your backyard. That’s what Janine McFarland said she endured—and more—working for the U.S. Forest Service; a dream job turned nightmare. McFarland, an archeologist with the Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District of the […]
On Sept. 19, 1919, George and Anna Rastovich took advantage of the Homesteaders Act to start a 40-acre farm on what’s now called Rastovich Road on Bend’s east side. The Rastoviches immigrated to the U.S. from Yugoslavia in the early 1900s, got married in Spokane, Wash., and had three children before the promise of free […]
The Bend City Council voted 4-2 on Wednesday, Jan. 16, to appoint businessman and registered Republican Chris Piper to the vacant council spot for the next two years. The position opened after Sally Russell became Bend’s first directly elected mayor. The Council previously met Monday, Jan. 14 to tackle the issue, but was unable to […]
Let’s check in again with how Canada is doing with its national legalization of cannabis, just four months in. It’s the largest cannabis legalization program ever undertaken, and even though Americans do terribly in learning from other countries (or from history, or in school), perhaps we can buck that trend and take away some insight […]
The affordable housing crunch is bringing out innovators trying to come up with solutions. In many larger U.S. cities, our local problems are magnified—so I like to look at what they’re doing. Unfortunately, not much is coming up, but this week an article about co-living developments caught my attention. Many millennials and others in Bend […]
Artwork abounds in the roundabouts in Bend and elsewhere in Central Oregon—and now, Prineville is looking to share some of that creative wealth. The Oregon Department of Transportation has recently finished the Tom McCall Roundabout at the intersection of Hwy. 126 and Tom McCall Drive on Prineville’s west side—just south of Facebook’s Data Center, and […]
Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday is a national holiday, and since 1994, Congress has designated the third Monday in January as a national day of service in honor of his legacy. The goal of this day of service, according to nationalservice.org, is “to empower individuals, strengthen communities, bridge barriers, create solutions to social problems, and […]
During its meeting on Jan. 16, the Deschutes County Board of Commissioners voted to approve a new zone on the west side of Bend specifically designed to limit wildfire risk in a new housing development. The Westside Transect Zone will limit development to a maximum of 187 homes on nearly 700 acres between Bend’s city […]
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