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Two Threats and a Copycat: A week of school threats at Bend-La Pine Schools

Three prospective threats, inside a week
The Source Staff

We were quite literally on the phone with officials from Bend Police and Bend-La Pine Schools on Monday, discussing two recent threats toward local schools, when a School Resource Deputy with the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office began an investigation at a third school in the district. Three prospective threats, inside a week. Officials from Bend […]

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Student Voices

Local youth weigh in on gun violence, in schools and in the wider community
The Source Staff

Just this week, two incidents involving firearms happened right here in Bend. One incident left two men dead. While neither involved local schools, they serve as reminders that firearms pose a constant threat of violence when left in the wrong hands. In light of the multitude of attacks at schools nationwide, students and teachers live […]

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Safety at Bend-La Pine Schools

After the recent school shooting in Florida and the threats at Bend Senior High, how safe are our schools?
Chris Miller

Imagine you’re at work. You just filled your favorite mug full of coffee and return to your desk, adorned with photos of your family—smiling kids on vacation, soaking-wet dogs dripping from swimming in Cultus Lake—when your phone buzzes. It’s a text from your high school-aged child. It’s brief: “I love you.” A smile runs across […]

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Kudos to the Superintendent for a Call to Action on School Shootings

Missing from that call to action? A call to ban semi-automatic weapons
The Source Staff

In February, yet another massive deadly shooting on a high school campus in Florida. This past week, the threat of a shooting at Bend Senior High School, on the heels of several other alleged threats at other local schools. With local students and parents asking themselves what very well might have been this past week, […]

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Stop It!

The Source Staff

Three days after a school shooting in Newton, Conn., a grim-faced President Obama presented a national address, during which his mood wavered between sad and angry. Twenty children and six adults had been shot dead by a deranged man. And that shooting came at the end of a year when there already had been seven […]

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