If you’ve spent any time near the Mill Quarter over the past several months, you’ve probably noticed the construction happening at The Box Factory. The 100-year-old former box and crate factory has been rejuvenated with a plethora of local businesses, each hand-selected by Portland-based real estate developer Killian Pacific.
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Fire Season in Full Effect
Gov. Brown activates Operation Plan Smokey after a rash of fires
It was only a matter of time before fire season went into full beast mode in Oregon—and that moment is now. Governor Kate Brown declared a statewide wildfire emergency starting today, effectively activating the Oregon National Guard to work with the Oregon Department of Forestry, including using aviation assets to help battle wildfires in the […]
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No Charges Filed Against DCSO Deputy
DA John Hummel finds deputy Zilk was justified in his shooting of Jesse Wayde Powell
On July 17, Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel issued his decision regarding the June 20 shooting of Jesse Wayde Powell by Deschutes County Sheriff’s Deputy Randy Zilk. Hummel determined that Zilk’s decision to shoot Powell was legally justified, so he did not initiate criminal charges against the deputy. On June 20, Zilk responded to […]
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The War Wages On
Oregon will have 11 dedicated opioid treatment centers by 2019. Where—as a city, state and as a nation—are we in this raging opioid epidemic?
The United States is being crippled by a growing—yes, growing—opioid crisis. There was a staggering 21 percent surge in drug overdoses in 2016, the last time the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released official figures on record, with 64,070 deaths attributed to drug overdoses in the U.S. Of those, 75 percent were from opioids. […]
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Weed Replacing Wine
When living in Northern California, I spent many weekends doing the most Northern California thing possible, (aside from practicing nude goat yoga and crafting small-batch organic, free range chia kombucha), which was visiting wineries. Some of my favorite memories involve downing bottles of delicious, jammy Napa reds. Some of my least favorite memories were the […]
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Housing Bubble Concerns
With the increase in home prices reported in last week’s article, I have been asked by many people if we are staged for a correction or whether we are in a housing bubble. While recessions are inevitable in our economy, whether there will be one in the housing market is highly debated. Most real estate […]
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Opening Soon
Curated shopping mall welcomes new local businesses
If you’ve spent any time near the Mill Quarter over the past several months, you’ve probably noticed the construction happening at The Box Factory. The 100-year-old former box and crate factory has been rejuvenated with a plethora of local businesses, each hand-selected by Portland-based real estate developer Killian Pacific. For those who haven’t stopped by […]
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Prepping for the Big One
The Cascadia subduction earthquake isn’t expected to hit Bend hard—but seismic retrofits and planning are still recommended
Friday the 13th is supposed to be spooky, so maybe it was fate that on that day, the Oregon Office of Emergency Management held two training sessions for homeowners, builders and other professionals to learn about seismic retrofitting for detached, single-family, wood-framed dwellings—better known as houses—in case the Big One hits. But let’s back up. […]
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A Lucky House
Greg Amanti, the local artist who painted the new mural on the My Lucky House building on Third Street, between Norton and Lafayette Avenues, said he landed on Greek pottery for inspiration after looking for iconic images that would read at a glance. Amanti said the mural took two full weekends and a couple of […]
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Lawmakers React to Trump-Putin Summit
Merkley, Wyden and Republican colleagues blast the president’s remarks in Finland
After Monday’s meeting between leaders of two of the world’s superpowers, in which President Trump condemned the Justice Department and accepted the explanation of a hostile foreign leader over the findings of his own intelligence agencies, reactions from Oregon’s two senators were unflattering. “President Trump is repeatedly siding with a dictator over his own government […]
