February 20, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• Best Bets for family fun Details
• Branch out
• Bureaucracy impedes Merkley Web site
• Commercial rents fall in Bend, but vacancies remain at 15-year highs
• Fair to help parents find preschools, child care
• Family Calendar
• GO! Magazine
• More moms are technology savvy
• Restaurant Guide
• Sack lunches lack nutrition, study says
• Story times, library youth events for Feb. 20-26

BUSINESS

• Commercial rents fall in Bend, but vacancies remain at 15-year highs

SPORTS

• Flatiron Rock
• Golf buddies
• Survival of the fittest
• Virginia Meissner Sno-park

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices
• Thomas W. Sanguinetti

NATION & WORLD

• Bureaucracy impedes Merkley Web site
• My, what a tall baby you have!

FEATURES

• Pasta by the river
• This week

ENTERTAINMENT

• A mix of everything
• All about the movies
• AND THE OSCAR GOES TO ...
• Antioch Church hosts ‘Art Sunday’
• ART EXHIBITS
• Call to actors — and dogs — for ‘Annie’
• Domino Room welcomes Kool Keith
• ‘Earnest’ in Portland
• Experience a president’s life with 2 storybooks
• Foucault, Delmhorst bring folk to Sisters
• Here’s what’s showing on Central Oregon movie screens.
• Joining the Union
• Live auction features skateboard art
• Michael McDonald returns to the region
• Music releases
• New dvd releases
• Other gigs worth checking out
• Out of town
• Parents’ Guide to Movies
• Pasta by the river
• Planning ahead
• Short & beautiful
• Solid surprises
• Songwriting contest marks 11th year
• ‘Spectacular!’ song-and-dance fun
• This week
• Upcoming Concerts

RESTAURANTS

• Pasta by the river

OPINION

• A kangaroo court for the Metolius

ROADS & TRAFFIC