June 03, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• Bend park district receives trail grant
• Bend seeks comments on rate increases
• Bend-La Pine Schools seeks panel members
• Christian high school program faces elimination
• Community Events Calendar
• Correction
• Cyclist struck, injured by truck west of Bend
• Electronic alcohol monitoring proves useful
• For local dealerships, a shifting landscape
• Frugal foods
• Getting an early look at life in middle school
• Guard killed in robbery at Wal-Mart
• High Desert ESD gets grant for pilot program
• InEnTec names new chief executive
• Investigation in donations theft focuses on employee
• Irrigation district to receive hydro loan
• Keeping an eye out for trout
• Kids in the hall
• Kulongoski takes issue with LNG terminal review
• Look out, Etsy: SilkFair shines up online market
• Man who killed dog in drug deal gets 7 years
• Merkley: Climate change is No. 1 priority
• News of Record: Bankruptcies
• News of Record: Police Log, Bend fire runs, Pets
• No major cuts in Bend park budget
• Prineville Airport gets grant for runway
• Prison, not probation, for ‘career criminal,’ judge says
• "09 Legislature enters homestretch, and region is watching
• Redmond Airport’s $20M bond likely to go on market
• Unlocking the secret of middle school success
• Unlucky wave of change?

BUSINESS

• 3 banks take steps toward repaying feds
• Bend park district receives trail grant
• Bend seeks comments on rate increases
• Business Calendar
• Chinese company to buy Hummer
• Christian high school program faces elimination
• Cursing is becoming the norm at work
• Debris confirms Air France plane crashed, but not why
• Detroit’s woes wound an army of suppliers
• For local dealerships, a shifting landscape
• Frugal foods
• Garage sales also included in lead rules
• Geithner: China backs efforts to fight slump
• InEnTec names new chief executive
• Insurers balk at changes for small businesses
• Irrigation district to receive hydro loan
• Keeping an eye out for trout
• Look out, Etsy: SilkFair shines up online market
• Merkley: Climate change is No. 1 priority
• Motion controller unveiled for PS3
• News of Record: Bankruptcies
• New-vehicle sales reach a 2009 high
• Open up your closet and get cash
• Oregon’s GDP grew in ‘08, report shows
• Pending home sales rise 6.7% in April
• Prineville Airport gets grant for runway
• Redmond Airport’s $20M bond likely to go on market
• Thrift losses narrow; more on ‘problem’ list

SPORTS

• Basketball
• Correction
• Death of diver likely accidental, officials say
• Downs edged out of qualifying playoff
• Football
• 76 gives golfer early lead at Ladies Invitational
• Golf Scoreboard
• Heinly finishes sixth in Junior PGA qualifier
• Jockey is confident of ride into record book
• Lakers’ Odom loves his candy
• Madras’ Gill named IMC baseball player of the year
• Major League Baseball
• On the Air
• Penguins still alive after win
• Schmidt qualifies for Oregon Amateur Championship
• Scoreboard
• Sharapova falls at Open
• Sports Events Calendar
• Still openings for Mirror Pond Invite
• Storm boys tied for fourth at Class 5A state track meet
• Tokatee:
• Track and Field
• Vijarro helps Ducks to strong finish

OBITS

• Nobel-winning economist Clive Granger

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices
• Leonard Wayne Davis
• Lorraine Elizabeth Corkett
• Norman Colin Bain Sr.
• Violet F. (Hix) Hammond
• Willard Bill Okla Mitchell

NATION & WORLD

• Afghan war to cost billions, take years, says general chosen for new strategy
• Al-Qaida slams Obama’s upcoming Cairo speech
• 3 banks take steps toward repaying feds
• China moves to end student marches in 1989
• D-Day Memorial on brink of financial ruin
• Egyptians worry Obama will inadvertently bless repression
• Geithner: China backs efforts to fight slump
• Insurers balk at changes for small businesses
• Keeping the sea out of NYC
• Merkley: Climate change is No. 1 priority
• Motion controller unveiled for PS3
• N.Y. Republican chosen to be Army secretary
• Obama helps create panel to mark Reagan’s 100th birthday
• Obama’s evolving environmental record: Months of reversing policies, but not without controversy
• Pakistani court orders Mumbai-linked cleric freed
• Parties plot strategy as Sotomayor visits Capitol
• Pending home sales rise 6.7% in April
• Report of motive in attack on recruiters
• Thrift losses narrow; more on ‘problem’ list
• Uncertainty clouds report of Taliban leader"s death
• Universities like women in sciences ...
• Web-savvy, cynical: China’s youth since Tiananmen

FEATURES

• Christian high school program faces elimination
• Garage sales also included in lead rules
• The power of free

ENTERTAINMENT

• Best Sellers
• Movie Times
• ‘Tonight Show’ debut has too much Conan

OPINION

• GM culture and the coming quagmire
• Hollywood not the only star
• Leashes are optional; vaccinations are not
• Years of government mismanagement argues for term limits

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• "09 Legislature enters homestretch, and region is watching