March 14, 2008

LOCAL & STATE

• Area’s new Democrats: What drew them all?
• Balancing family, new business in Bend
• Central Oregon gas prices
• COCC Web directory aids small businesses
• Dispatches
• Family Calendar
• Favorites to read aloud
• Free Wi-Fi network launching in Bend’s downtown
• GO! Magazine
• Good news and bad news in Children First report
• Interim manager Eric King to join applicant field
• Is your business kid-friendly?
• Late winter storm to hit this weekend
• Library loophole is about to close
• 3 more join crowded Crook County races
• News of Record: Police log, Bend fire runs, stolen vehicles and pets
• Parent workshop about inhalants
• Police seek info on attempted car fire
• Power of video games
• Redmond Downtown Partnership seeks funds from city
• Regional low-income clinics plan how they’ll stay healthy
• Restaurant Guide
• Shootin’ hoops
• Story times, library youth events for March 14-20
• Summit High digs itself out of a mess
• Vehicle ignites in Bend
• Work plan due on formaldehyde cleanup

BUSINESS

• Business Calendar
• Central Oregon gas prices
• COCC Web directory aids small businesses
• Dispatches
• Free Wi-Fi network launching in Bend’s downtown
• Geothermal wells have investors
• Redmond Downtown Partnership seeks funds from city
• Restaurant opens at Sisters’ FivePine
• Small bites

SPORTS

• Anyone for Tennis?
• Bend skier earns start at World Cup
• Cougars’ season ends in tournament consolation
• Cove Palisades State Park
• Culver baseball earns easy win
• Dental care for your horse
• Events Calendar
• High Lakes Pony Club announces member ratings
• Lake Simtustus
• Making a big splash
• Prep Scoreboard
• Rodeo queen tryouts Saturday in La Pine
• Storm improves to 2-0 early in the IMC season
• Trap shoot to benefit rodeo scholarship fund

OBITS

• Allen Douglas Cook
• Beverly Ann Little
• Eleanor Grace (Clark) Smith
• John Wright Stewart
• Julia Anne Bradley

FEATURES

• Regional low-income clinics plan how they’ll stay healthy

ENTERTAINMENT

• ALT. group exhibit at Barber Library
• A.P.O.S.T.L.E. uses up all the periods
• Arts Central receives foundation grant
• At the galleries
• Bend movie theater to broadcast opera
• Both ends of the spectrum
• Buckets of blues
• Choral wonder
• Everybody loves comedy
• Homage, Inc.
• Intervision glides into The Summit
• Liferuiner is here to ruin your life
• Living a pledge
• Museums, libraries, talks & classes
• ‘My Own Two Hands’ tickets on sale
• Nature of Words welcomes new officers
• Out of town
• Planning ahead
• Ramblers to light up 541 Lounge stage
• Redmond church hosts father-son folk duo
• Restaurant opens at Sisters’ FivePine
• Small bites
• Smile for the cameras
• The Garden sprouts at 541 Lounge
• This week

RESTAURANTS

• Living a pledge

OPINION

• Casino benefits
• Good move
• Improving Oregon health care
• No septic rule
• Wasteful war