June 16, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• Board tries to trim the budget fat
• Budget cuts in Sisters won’t affect city services
• Building dreams for 20 years
• Business Calendar
• Finalists selected for principal position
• Is your lost dog licensed?
• Judge rejects defense arguments of persecution in child death case
• Lawmakers OK initiative limits
• News of Record: Deeds
• News of Record: Police Log, Bend fire runs, Pets
• Our $14M in bonds for infrastructure means jobs, Wyden says
• Redmond to launch park construction
• Rock chuck colonies burrow into the region
• Saving Grace awarded $43,712 state grant
• Sweet summer
• T-Mobile launches faster service in Bend
• Totally R.A.D.
• What can one person do to pull a community closer?
• Woman indicted in death of pregnant woman

BUSINESS

• Backers hope a lighter beer-tax plan has a shot
• Boeing gets no orders at the Paris Air Show
• Foreign demand for financial assets falls
• If you've got a pile of debt on credit cards, try offering to pay less
• In Silicon Valley, a tech confab any startup could afford
• New pub to open on Bend’s west side
• News of Record: Deeds
• Our $14M in bonds for infrastructure means jobs, Wyden says
• Radio show picked up by 3 Oregon stations
• Rock chuck colonies burrow into the region
• Some question the reach of financial oversight plan
• Stocks tumble amid bad economic news
• T-Mobile launches faster service in Bend
• Totally R.A.D.

SPORTS

• As other races falter, CCC on the rise
• Auto Racing
• Baseball
• Basketball
• Bend Elks provide a summer springboard
• Bend roller derby team takes a hit
• Community Sports Calendar Events Calendar
• Cycling
• Events Calendar Community Scoreboard
• First Bend Beer Run set for Saturday
• Former prep soccer standouts compete
• Hockey
• Italy rallies to beat U.S. 3-1 at Confederations Cup
• Local youth lacrosse players see gold
• Locals qualify for tae kwon do event
• Major League Baseball
• More automakers could find a new home at NASCAR
• New time and place for table tennis group
• On the Air
• Oregon Open tees up in Powell Butte
• Scoreboard
• Skaters are in the game

OBITS

• Washington boatbuilder thrived in Alaska fishing boom

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Archie Ball Hamby
• Death notices
• Edward A. Ringer
• Jeanette A. Wade Culberson
• Nancy Walters

NATION & WORLD

• A little alcohol can be good for you, right? ... Right?
• Britain’s Iraq inquiry seeks ‘lessons learned’
• Cancer patients’ agony of options
• CDC lists the foods most likely to sicken
• Foreign hostages slain in Yemen
• In unrest, a crack in Khamenei’s armor?
• Museum shooting suspect won’t appear
• NASA will try to launch space shuttle Wednesday
• North Korea holds massive rally
• Obama makes pitch to AMA on health care
• Senate offers new plan on driver’s licenses
• ‘Superman’ actor George Reeves dies in apparent suicide in 1959
• Thousands march in Iran
• VA inspections show continued flaws
• Will new tobacco rules pass free-speech scrutiny?

FEATURES

• A cure for spotted chrome
• A sprig of thyme? Decoding vague recipe measurements
• At Home With … Deschutes Brewery’s Larry Sidor
• Building dreams for 20 years
• Cancer patients’ agony of options
• Cheesecake: The best way to top off any meaty meal
• Ground covers that don’t take over a yard
• James Beard’s Favorite Strawberry Shortcake
• Jan’s Buttermilk Shortcake Biscuits
• Leisure over labor
• Not your typical pizza
• Pea pods burst with freshness
• Recipe Finder
• Saving Grace awarded $43,712 state grant
• Serve up some manly meals
• Strawberry Shortcake Topping with Amaretto
• Sweet summer
• Warm and Creamy Berry Shortcake
• What can one person do to pull a community closer?
• Wildwood’s Strawberry- Citrus Shortcake

ENTERTAINMENT

• Backers hope a lighter beer-tax plan has a shot
• Beyonc to perform at BET Awards
• Calendar
• Engvall ‘nervous’ about hosting CMT awards
• Golf tournament to benefit St. Charles Redmond birthing center
• Movie Times
• New pub to open on Bend’s west side
• Obama health care interview airs June 24
• Oregon recital to feature classics
• Pitt, siblings give $1M to Missouri hospital
• Radio show picked up by 3 Oregon stations
• ’Sopranos’ star de Matteo engaged
• Space out during astronomy week
• Women’s center seeks volunteers

OPINION

• America needs health reform
• Bend road maintenance
• Don’t hide the costs of green energy
• Put children first
• Support utility fee for transportation
• The economy is No. 1
• The winds of change have hit the Middle East