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Homeless Camp Evictions

The City of Bend plans to remove the people who live on Juniper Ridge, but where will they go?

Eviction is sometimes caricatured as a cruel act by fat-cat landlords, pushing low-income families out into the bitter cold in the dead of winter. But what happens when the landlord is the public itself, in the form of the City of Bend, and the people being forced out already live outside? During the Feb. 5 […]

Posted inOpinion

Look Up and Beyond

Growth and access cost money

Last week, the Bend City Council initially voted in favor of putting the smaller of two proposed transportation bond packages before voters during the May election, aiming to tackle some of the most pressing and overdue transportation-related problems in Bend. While the Council still has another vote before them before voters would see that bond […]

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A New Place to Call Home

A donation from Deschutes County will add 19 more affordable homes to the community

The high costs of land and construction labor are some of the factors making housing so expensive in Central Oregon and elsewhere. But recently, Deschutes County stepped in to help. The County just donated 1.85 acres to Habitat for Humanity in La Pine, soon be home to 19 multifamily townhomesโ€”a new type of home for […]

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Deschutes Shifts Gears with its Roanoke Brewery

CEO Lalonde shares details about the company’s latest moves

The Deschutes Brewery facility planned for construction in Roanoke, Va. isn’t off the tableโ€”but plans have changed a bit. Instead of striking a deal with the City of Roanoke to get its land for free, the Bend-based company is going to buy the land outright.  In 2016, the craft brewer announced that it would build […]

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