Oregon Senator Ron Wyden has called on all Presidential candidates to release their tax returns for public scrutiny by introducing legislation to require disclosure of tax returns. “Since the days of Watergate, the American people have had an expectation that nominees to be the leader of the free world not hide their finances and personal tax returns,” said […]
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Old Stone Performing Arts Center
There are some serious changes that are happening in Bend. New businesses are popping up everywhere! Just look around. What about a revamping of a business that has been around since before Bend was even Bend? I’m talking about the Old Stone Church, or as it is now called The Old Stone Performing Arts Center […]
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Hold the Door
Spoilers for this week’s “Game of Thrones” throughout: Last Sunday’s “Game of Thrones” brought the death of a fan favorite character who seemed too pure not to make it at least to the end of the journey. As Bran’s erstwhile packhorse and best friend, Hodor has been carrying the crippled kid since Season One, it […]
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A Prize-winning Slate of Authors Announced for the Fifth Season of the Library Foundation’s Author! Author! Literary Series
May 24, 2016 (Bend, Oregon) — With the announcement of the Deschutes Public Library Foundation’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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75 Years of Smoke Jumpers, High Desert Museum Exhibit Opens 6/4
Submitted by the High Desert Museum A SMOKEJUMPER’S LIFE – PARACHUTE INTO A WILDFIRE Exhibit highlights the history of smokejumpers and wildfires in the Northwest BEND, OR—For more than 75 years, specially-trained women and men have been jumping out of airplanes and parachuting into remote wildfires. Smokejumpers: Firefighters from the Sky is a new exhibit at the High Desert Museum which […]
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Four-day Chinook season open 5/28 to 5/31 on Lookingglass Creek
Submitted by Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife LA GRANDE, Ore. – Lookingglass Creek, a tributary of the Grande Ronde River at Palmer Junction, will open to fishing for hatchery spring Chinook salmon Saturday, May 28 through Tuesday May 31. The open area is from the Moses Creek Lane Bridge (County Road 42) upstream to […]
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COCC Nursing Orientation: 6/1
Submitted by COCC Orientation Meeting for Nursing Students in Bend 5 p.m. on June 1 Room 155, Boyle Education Center, COCC Bend Campus COCC OFFERS NURSING PROGRAM ORIENTATION IN BEND Central Oregon Community College is offering a nursing program orientation session from 5 to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, June 1, in Room 155 of the […]
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Bend Fire Dept. Seeks Support Volunteers
Submitted by Dave Howe, Bend Fire Dept. Battalion Chief, Public Information Officer Become a Bend Fire Department Volunteer! The Bend Fire Department is looking for community-minded people who would like to become long-term members of a great organization, as a Support Volunteer. The Bend Fire Dept. is looking for people with all types of backgrounds, talents and […]
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Owyhee Canyonlands Ecologically Important
Submitted by Brett Dickson, Conservation Science Partners A study commissioned by the Pew Charitable Trust, a nonprofit think tank found that Southeastern Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands are one of the most ecologically important unprotected places in the western United States. Safeguarding the area “presents a significant opportunity to conserve key elements of native biodiversity and ecological […]