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Eighth Season of Author! Author! Literary Series Features Scholastic Masterminds

Michael Pollan, Susan Orlean and Barry Lopez headed to Bend

During the first three months of 2020, the Deschutes Public Library Foundationโ€™s Author! Author! literary series will return, featuring three prolific and renowned authors presenting at the Bend High School Auditorium. The foundation works to find high-level writers that will engage the Central Oregon community while encouraging literary-centric, thought-provoking conversation.  Barry Lopez, Susan Orlean and […]

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The Oscars of Teaching

Bend High teacher is the only Oregonian to win the $25,000 Milken Educator Award this year

Out of 44 recipients of the prestigious Milken Educator Award this year, only one was from Oregonโ€”and she happens to be a teacher at Bend High School. Unaware she was to be honored, representatives from the Milken Foundation presented Andria Lindsey with the award in a surprise all-school assembly Tuesday morning. As she stood with […]

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Fixing Our Schools

The Oregon PTA calls for the State to address billions in overdue repairsโ€”but where’s the money coming from?

When Bend teacher Travis Overley was a student teacher at Bend High School, teaching in front of a class of more than 40 students was common. At Bend High, however—one of the oldest buildings in the Bend-La Pine School District—Overley says it wasn’t just the size of the classes that stood out. “Kids are sitting […]

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A Prize-winning Slate of Authors Announced for the Fifth Season of the Library Foundationโ€™s Author! Author! Literary Series

May 24, 2016 (Bend, Oregon) โ€” With the announcement of the Deschutes Public Library Foundationโ€™s fifth season of Author! Author!, there can be no question that the popular literary series has hit its stride. The stellar line-up includes three Pulitzer Prize winners and one Pulitzer finalist, and all four authors have made significant contributions to […]

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Magic Realism Grows by Leaps and Bounds

Author! Author! welcomes with Alice Hoffman

The final award-winning literary artist featured in the 2015/16 Author! Author! series is New York Times best-selling author Alice Hoffman, who will speak Thursday, May 26 at Bend High at 7 p.m. The series began in October and included non-fiction, creative fiction, historical fiction and memoir authors, starting with Timothy Egan, 61, a Pulitzer Prize-winning […]

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Picks 3/18-3/25

thursday 19 George Clinton & Parliament FUNK—The undisputed grandfather of funk, prolific and versatile musician George Clinton (seriously though, he’s won awards for gospel and had his music heavily sampled by hip-hop artists), is bringing his epic soul train to Bend. The influential, 73-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Famer is a must-see. If, by […]

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Our Picks 3/5-3/11

thursday 5 Central Oregon Sportsmen’s Show OUTDOORS—Get past the irony of spending a day indoors to gear up for the outdoors, and feast on this four-day smorgasbord of tents, boats, cross-bows, and rods-n-reels. (See page 24 for more information about this year’s cooking presentations.) Noon-8 pm, Thursday & Friday, 10 am-8 pm Saturday, 10 am-4 […]

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Guest Post: Preventing Mass Killings with Kindness

.sarahwynne. By Molly Boyle, Sisters High School Student Our country was devastated by the 2012 Sandy Hook Shooting in Newtown, Conn., where 20 children and six adults were killed in a shooting spree. Schools all around the United States tightened security by installing metal detectors and bulletproof glass, and performing routine lockdown drills. However, regardless […]

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Safety in their Sights

Schools respond to shootings with more cops, guns

In the wake of the most recent mass shooting—this time in Isla Vista, Calif., near the University of California at Santa Barbara, where Elliot Rodger allegedly killed six people including himself—the ripple effects are coursing through the nation’s consciousness. While “active shooter events,” as the FBI calls them, have been a part of our social […]

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