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 assistance for a second fire that had just started south of where they were working to extinguish the flames.
Officers searched the area and located the woman walking in the area of the fires. They say she had a lighter in her hand when she was contacted. Officers arrested her on suspicion of two counts of reckless burning and one count each of first-degree criminal mischief and second-degree theft. She also had a warrant for a parole violation.
—Sophie Haney
Expanded Recycling List
The new state Recycling Modernization Act began July 1. Deschutes County has updated the list of items that will be accepted in curbside recycling carts and drop-off centers to align with the new Uniform Statewide Collection List.
Newly accepted in curbside carts:
- Food & Beverage cartons (milk, broth, juice)
- Pizza Boxes (no food residue)
- Small scrap metal (under 10 pounds or 18 inches)
No longer accepted in curbside carts:
- Shredded paper (can be recycled at Deschutes Recycling, located at Knott Landfill, or any Deschutes County Transfer Station and placed in a shredded paper bin).
—Nic Moye
$29,850
—The cost to build a new hospital in 1922 in “Savage in Bend: Hospital Hill.”
“I had a goal in mind, I’m gonna walk out of this hospital. That’s the only goal.”
—Paralyzed climber Jack Ryan in this week’s Outside.
This article appears in Source Weekly July 31, 2025.
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