March 20, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• A spring in his step
• Bend park district replaces spinning toys
• Best Bets for family fun Details, Page E3
• Boredom busters
• Business Calendar
• Coach: Madras boxer is off the ventilator
• Committee approves Commerce nominee
• Counties may be the judge on farmland weddings
• Crime dog hit by car returns to duty in full stride
• Deschutes Public Library District
• Dispatches
• District stands by pick to build school
• Family Calendar
• Feds join state in LNG lawsuit
• GO! Magazine
• Good morning, La Pine Good morning, La Pine
• In France, economic protests draw more than 1 million demonstrators
• Measures
• Museum events show off insects, animals
• New water rules may cost Bend $22M
• News of Record: Police Log, Bend fire runs, Pets
• Parents warned of spring break scam
• Park districts
• Proposed bicycle fee may not get a hearing
• Redmond BMX riders may be getting a place to play
• Report rates resorts’ cost to public, but it’s disputed
• Restaurant Guide
• Rural fire protection districts
• School district boards
• Seeing double?
• Special story time set for hearing-impaired
• Springfield man gets 30 years in murder for hire
• State tax office offers extended hours
• Story times, library youth events for March 20-26
• Terrebonne traffic stop nets 2 drug arrests
• Transportation stimulus launched
• Trucking dispute could trip up Oregon exporters
• Universities seek voluntary pay cuts
• What happens when soil burns red hot?
• Wyden’s public lands bills pass U.S. Senate

BUSINESS

• Auto suppliers to get $5B in federal aid
• Bachelor announces spring rates, operating schedule
• 13 companies getting bailouts owe taxes
• Counties may be the judge on farmland weddings
• Dispatches
• District stands by pick to build school
• Gearing up for spring
• Good morning, La Pine Good morning, La Pine
• House approves tax on bonuses
• Mortgage rates fall below 5 percent
• New jobless claims fall more than expected
• New weapon brings us closer to era of laser gun
• Obama pushes stimulus, responds to GOP criticism
• Report rates resorts’ cost to public, but it’s disputed
• Tumalo Farms cheese wins a top U.S. honor

SPORTS

• Baseball
• Bears take dual with Panthers prep Scoreboard
• Blazers fall to Cavs in OT
• Cheechoo gets shootout winner for Sharks
• Events Calendar
• Football
• Furyk back on top for first time in a while
• Golf
• Mini PPP logo art on display at U.S. Bank
• Night skiing at Hoodoo
• On the Air
• prep Scoreboard
• Redmond High football coach resigns
• Sisters wins golf tourney
• Skiing
• Soccer
• Staying young on the slopes
• UCLA survives a scare
• Warner Mountain Fire Lookout

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Cheryl L. Shaffer
• Cindy Ann Ogle
• Death notices

NATION & WORLD

• Austrian sentenced to life in incest case
• Bush official says some detainees wrongly held
• Dallas high school accused of holding student ‘cage fights’
• Dinosaur discovery raises questions on origins of feathers
• John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in 1969
• Kabul bombers accused of having links to Pakistan
• 5 killed in Ecuador as plane hits apartments
• Mexican military nabs drug cartel leader
• New Charles Manson photo is released
• Pope urges unity of Christians, Muslims
• Solar wings installed on space station
• Soldiers’ accounts of killings in Gaza stir controversy
• Two U.S. journalists held in North Korea
• Used or new? Cost equation isn’t as simple as it used to be
• Utah to change arcane liquor laws
• Video shows officer beating suspect
• White House garden a sign of the times

FEATURES

• Good morning, La Pine Good morning, La Pine
• New water rules may cost Bend $22M
• Richardson’s death revives debate over ski helmets

ENTERTAINMENT

• A war epic for gamers
• ART EXHIBITS
• Caldera artists set for open house show
• Call to performers for ‘Her’story event
• Dinner Down Under
• Fest test
• Locals, locals, get yer locals right here!
• Marv Ellis brings his band to Bend
• M.D.C. returns to Central Oregon
• Meet Sylvia
• Men of the West come east of the Cascades
• Mini PPP logo art on display at U.S. Bank
• MOVIE TIMES * For the week of March 20
• Music releases
• New DVD releases
• On local screens
• Out of town
• Parents’ Guide to Movies
• Planning ahead
• Scottish star Dougie MacLean visits Sisters
• Spice Trader hosts pirate beach party
• Take an incredible journey with ‘Bolt’
• Talks, classes, museums & libraries
• The Rat Pack is back
• This ... is ‘American Idol’!
• This week
• Tim, Eric hang out forever in middle school
• Upcoming Concerts
• Youth can take part in Oregon Reads ‘09

RESTAURANTS

• Dinner Down Under

OPINION

• Councilor Oran Teater should quit
• In economic mess, Congress breaks out pitchforks over a pittance
• Keep business fee at $50
• Road ‘fee’ flawed, but worth pursuing