Bend News

Cascade Clarinet Consort and Siskiyou Saxophone Orchestra, directed by music faculty Rhett Bender, will present "Music of Spring" at 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 20, in the Music Recital Hall on the Southern Oregon University campus, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland.

Bend officials say it is time to stop subsidizing operations at Pilot Butte Cemetery, which the city has owned for 100 years.

The first bike-share station in Bend is scheduled to open Friday. The private station will serve people who work in offices at 50 S.W. Bond St.

A 19-year-old Warm Springs woman was arrested on DUII, assault, drug possession and other charges Saturday after her minivan slammed into one of four vehicles stopped for a red light on Highway 97 in Redmond, causing a chain-reaction crash that injured herself and three others, one critically, police said.

A 20-year-old Redmond man who reportedly swerved to miss a deer lost control of his SUV, which sheared off a power pole near Terrebonne early Sunday.

Hundreds of women motorcyclists will be riding their "iron horses" from all over the U.S. and Canada.

Sundays for churches are usually meant for worship services -- but this Sunday was a little different for one church in Bend.

One of those not at the U.S. Bank Pole Pedal Paddle this year was long-time Bend Police Community Liaison Steve Esselstyn.

Bend Christian Fellowship: Bill Martin; "Living Beyond the Walls"; Sunday at 10 a.m.; 4twelve youth group; Wednesday at 7 p.m.; 19831 Rocking Horse Road, Bend.

Crows Feet Commons is hosting an old-fashioned gear swap Sunday at Riverfront Plaza, 875 N.W. Brooks St., Bend .

Editor's note: Due to space constraints, organizations in the Arts, Music, Culture and Heritage category were not listed.

The board of the Cascades Theatrical Company has arranged a tentative deal to sell the Greenwood Playhouse, which has housed the company since the 1980s.

"Lawmakers must look for other measures for balancing our federal budget than to do so on the backs of hungry and poor people who did not create the deficit in the first place." -Bread for the World President David Beckmann, in response to the House Agriculture Committee's farm bill , which cuts SNAP by $21 billion.

Bill Fletcher, Jr., The Skanner News columnist, author and past president of the TransAfrica Forum, speaks in Oregon and Vancouver, Wa., at multiple events this weekend.

The last of 13 defendants has pleaded guilty to federal charges for his role in the collapse of a Bend, Ore., real estate development company.

It is unusual for the Bend Park & Recreation District board of directors to submit a response to an In My View to correct factual errors and misrepresentations from a member of the public.

Oregon's rural communities, particularly ones that once relied on timber revenues, are seeking new business models to sustain themselves, and many are looking to the recreation industry to drive business growth and create jobs.

Pioneer Memorial hospital in Prineville is in lockdown today, Thursday. The facility was secured around 10:30 this morning.

Well five miles downstream from Sunriver , there is a great place to access the Deschutes River Trail, and this section of the trail provides a spectacular scene of untamed rapids and the beautiful Central Oregon landscape, and it is perfect for hikers, walkers and bikers.

The U.S. Bank Pole Pedal Paddle is Saturday. The race consists of six stages, but one of the stages is getting a makeover this year.