Central Oregon Community College (COCC) is offering two information sessions about its new composites manufacturing program. The sessions will be offered at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 12, in Room 306 of the Manufacturing and Training Center on the Redmond Campus; and at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 14, in Room 206 of Ponderosa Hall on the Bend Campus. COCC’s composites manufacturing program grew from the need of local composites companies for trained employees, according ... [full story]

Hot Buttered Rum will appear at the Domino Room at 8:30 p.m.  on Saturday, December 12. Tickets are $12 in advance, $15 at the door.  We are separated by age or gender, by belief systems or money, by city blocks or hemispheres. But the sheer scale or severity of world events can sometimes steamroll even the deepest of these rifts. Large-scale military conflict, slow but unrelenting climate changes, and the disturbing depletion of our global ... [full story]

Most of today’s outdoor writing somehow doesn’t seem as colorful and descriptive as those of decades or even centuries past. Typical hunting stories of the modern 21st century read something like this: “Me and Joe goes huntin’ and we gits our deers.” I can’t help but wonder what it would be like if one of my past hunts could be written up in prose such as that used by the early 19th century Lewis and ... [full story]

Movie Review of "THE FOUNTAIN" The good news: I don't have to worry about giving too much of the plot away. The bad news: There is no plot. In a November 2006 interview in Wired, writer/director Darren Aronofsky describes his early enthusiasm toward his concept of "The Fountain": "How cool would it be to cut from a battle scene in some historical period to a man traveling alone in space for an unknown reason?" The ... [full story]

Tiffany Telfer has joined Oregon ad agency Ralston 360 as Account Supervisor. Prior to joining Ralston360, Telfer served as president and principal of Pinpointe, a Bend advertising and marketing firm. She brings almost a decade of advertising experience to her new position, including managerial positions with the Bernard Hodes Group, J.Walter Thompson and The Seattle Times Company.   Tiffany TelferIn addition to the daily management of key client accounts, Telfer will provide strategic planning and support ... [full story]

Crook, Deschutes, Gilliam, Hood River, Jefferson, Klamath, Lake, Sherman, Wasco and Wheeler counties and their 32 cities received $193,838 in October in the Oregon Liquor Control Commission’s (OLCC) statewide liquor revenue allocation, the commission recently announced. The funds are distributed as follows: Crook County, population 22,775, $5,587 Prineville, $6,826 Deschutes County, population 143,490, $35,205 Bend, $50,085 Redmond, $15,033 Sisters, $1,184 Gilliam County, population 1,890, $464 Arlington, $406 Condon, $548 Lonerock, $14 Hood River County, population ... [full story]

The City of Bend officially established a business license ordinance on January 18, 2006. As of February 17, 2006 all businesses operating in the City of Bend were required to possess a business license. Businesses should be registered for the license by the end of 2006. A $500 fine will be issued for those who fail to register for a Bend business license after an 18-month grace period. Obtaining a License:Businesses can submit applications in person ... [full story]

Three lanes of Highway 97 were blocked for about two hours Thursday evening after two semi-trucks crashed when one driver missed a turn-off into a rest stop and attempted to make a u-turn on the highway, said authorities. Shortly before 7 p.m. November 30, deputies with the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office and an Oregon State Police (OSP) trooper responded to the scene of the accident near the Peter Skene Ogden Wayside rest stop on Highway ... [full story]

Gay and bi­sex­u­al men may be un­u­su­al­ly prone to com­pul­sive gam­bling, a small study has found, adding to grow­ing ev­i­dence link­ing ho­mo­sex­u­al­ity to var­i­ous ad­dic­t­ions and men­tal ill­nesses. The results re­quire con­fir­ma­tion by fu­ture stud­ies, re­search­ers say, but un­der­score con­cerns that gays and les­bi­ans might re­quire spe­cial at­ten­tion and care for a range of men­tal dis­or­ders. The find­ings could al­so fu­el a charged de­bate over whe­th­er these con­di­tions stem from ho­mo­sex­u­al­ity it­self, or rath­er from the ... [full story]

Early this morning a Bend man and a 15-year old teenager were arrested in connection with a burglary at a local golf car dealership, criminal mischief for throwing eggs at police cars, and attempting to elude officers. Shortly after 2 a.m. December 1, a Bend Police officer heard an alarm as he was driving in the area of 2045 E. Highway 20.  The officer observed a vehicle without headlights leaving Cascade Golf Cars, and was ... [full story]