February 15, 2008

LOCAL & STATE

• Academic challenge is the goal, with or without the A.P. test
• ‘AFFLUENZA’
• 2 area watershed councils to share in $3.5 million conservation grant
• Bend-area rental home catches fire
• Bend-La Pine’s A.P. classes pass audit to keep status
• Bulletin seeks spring break info
• Business Calendar
• Carjacking suspect sought by Bend police
• Clarification
• Commissioners clash over local business
• Crook County health director resigns
• Culver fire sends one to hospital
• Dispatches
• Dreams, mysteries unraveled in books for young readers
• Economist says to prepare for a ‘necessary’ recession
• False spring may just fool you
• Family Calendar
• Flu cases increasing in Central Oregon
• GO! Magazine
• Jefferson County schools are short $3.1M
• Learning new skills for a new career
• News of Record: Police log, Bend fire runs, pets
• Pop songs refer to drugs, alcohol
• Residents of Crooked River Ranch enjoy drop in water rates
• Restaurant Guide
• Small-town folks with big family values
• Story times, library youth events for Feb. 15-21
• Sun breaks through
• Those kicker and stimulus checks: How much will you keep?
• Tumalo canal project hung up in Senate
• Two incumbents seek new terms in Crook County
• Uncle Sam should maintain funding for public broadcasting
• Willamette Valley Bank earnings rise

BUSINESS

• 2 area watershed councils to share in $3.5 million conservation grant
• Business Calendar
• Central Oregon gas prices
• Clarification
• Commissioners clash over local business
• Dispatches
• Girl falls from lift; officials examine Bachelor
• Learning new skills for a new career
• Small bites
• Tumalo canal project hung up in Senate
• Willamette Valley Bank earnings rise

SPORTS

• Antelope
• Area rider-horse team wins world cutting horse event
• Bend skier named to U.S. squad for Under-23 Championships in Italy
• Bend’s Horner is out of the Tour de France
• Blanket coverage?
• Blankets required?
• C.O. wrestlers reach state quarterfinals
• Cowgirls run past Buffs
• Fort Rock
• Horse Country Events Calendar
• Prep Scoreboard
• Three Panthers advance at state
• Tradition names a new director
• Volunteer ski passes bill clears the House

OBITS

• Dorothy Adelia (Devereaux) Johnson
• Frank Creed Forrest Strong
• John Samuel Williamdyke
• Luigia Reeves
• Tresa Ann Chakarun

FEATURES

• Crook County health director resigns
• Flu cases increasing in Central Oregon
• Small bites

ENTERTAINMENT

• Antelope
• Arlo Guthrie tickets go on sale Monday
• At the galleries
• Back From The Dead live at Silver Moon
• Bend Public Library issues call to artists
• Brazilian jazz at the Old Stone Church
• Caldera Arts presents final winter art show
• Dueling fiddles in Portland
• El Dante takes over Domino Room
• Estrola rocks at Silver Moon
• Hit machines
• In the lair of the Muscle Chef
• Local artist honored at Calif. quilt show
• Museums, libraries, talks & classes
• 2nd Street Theater to host auditions
• Old-world creations
• Oregon Arts panel seeks proposals
• Out of town
• Planning ahead
• Small bites
• This week
• Time for another Freestyle Fiasco
• U.S. Bombs drop in on Domino Room

RESTAURANTS

• In the lair of the Muscle Chef

OPINION

• Don’t bring back fusion voting
• Ethanol’s flaws
• It’s about compassion
• We have problems
• We’re worse off