December 20, 2007

LOCAL & STATE

• Bend Fire Chief Langston to retire
• Charity groups join in Prineville holiday giving
• Deputies investigating Sisters woman’s death
• Deschutes Democrats elect new chairman
• Gasoline vapor likely started fire in Bend
• If traveling, allow extra time and plan for the added risks
• Itching for powder? Know the dangers after a heavy snow
• Madras officials deny spike in fake bills
• News of Record: Permits
• News of Record: Police log, Bend fire runs, pets
• Oregon delegation joins Congress in limiting AMT
• Oregonians see moderate income growth
• Outrunning depression
• Peak Day
• Residents chosen for groundwater panel
• St. Charles cuts down noise, light in new neonatal rooms
• State looks at ways to compensate for timber payments
• Water at Squaw Creek Canyon declared safe
• Weather prompts La Pine library to close early, makes driving difficult around state
• Youth challenge cadets graduate

BUSINESS

• News of Record: Permits
• Oregonians see moderate income growth
• Peak Day

SPORTS

• Cold casting
• Cougar, coyote can likely be found at lower elevations
• Cougs lose after a solid first half
• Cowboys earn a pair of wins in Washington
• Crooked River near Bowman Dam reporting some success for redband
• Don’t call them late for dinner
• Events Calendar
• Fly-Tying Corner
• Forest Service to review use of sno-parks, parking

OBITS

• Ellen ‘Nellie’ Frances Skidmore
• Gary Fredrick Cofer
• Jeanne Prasse Lawler
• Oscar Willard Loewen
• Viola Ann-Marie Holloman
• Warren Price

NATION & WORLD

• Forest Service to review use of sno-parks, parking

FEATURES

• Be creative
• Farmed out
• Outrunning depression
• Slow burn
• St. Charles cuts down noise, light in new neonatal rooms
• Tonsillectomies often used to help kids breathe easy

ENTERTAINMENT

• Calendar
• Health Datebook

OPINION

• Bus service
• Don’t renew it
• Road rust
• Social Security myth
• State bid law just too weak
• The pole
• U.S. ethanol policies hinder the hungry
• What I want

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• New park-and-ride site OK’d