September 04, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• All-day option expanded in Bend-La Pine kindergarten program
• Anti-gay partnership signatures still secret as judge weighs case
• ‘Breast is best' but it's not always easy
• Business Calendar
• Central Oregon ranks sixth in homelessness
• Children’s museum working to stay afloat
• Cooling, some rain for holiday weekend
• Dispatches
• Eugene cabbie accused of dealing cocaine
• GO Magazine
• Group fights to get timber funds
• Introspective grasshopper
• Madras anti-gas tax bid fails
• Matsutake mushroom season opens Monday
• Missing twins located at Wickiup Reservoir
• News of Record: Police Log, Bend fire runs, Pets
• Newspaper settles police records request
• Officials tracking anti-tax signature campaign
• Panel: Save power, build fewer plants
• Prineville fire scorches garage
• Report of cougar closes Seattle park
• Restaurant guide
• $5,000 reward offered for bank robber info
• RV lot will raise money for shelter in Redmond
• Scout project helps Western painted turtle
• State Sen. Atkinson to run for governor
• Steens roadwork flawed, BLM review shows
• Story times, library youth events for Sept. 4-10
• The Bulletin seeks student columnists
• Toxic algae suspected in dog deaths
• U.S. birth rate has fallen during recession

BUSINESS

• Business Calendar
• Disappearing benefits
• Dispatches
• For Internet addicts, treatment center near Seattle offers hope
• Imus signs deal with Fox Business Network
• 3 Old Mill restaurants sign on to composting program
• Oracle-Sun deal under regulatory scrutiny
• Out with the bland and in with the bold for ‘10 Taurus
• Recall
• Retail sales fall, but drops are easing
• RV lot will raise money for shelter in Redmond
• Schumer: Change funding for the SEC
• Trading practice scrutinized

SPORTS

• Adventure Sports Events Calendar
• Baseball
• Basketball
• ‘Believe’: Teen from Georgia stuns No. 4 seed
• Bend man claims paragliding nationals
• Bend Swim Club to hold tryouts
• Bend’s Battistella tied for 49th place at LPGA Tour event
• Black Butte
• Blazers’ Webster cleared for camp
• Boise State shuts down Ducks’ offense in opener
• Clyde's back
• DEER FRIEND RECOVERS
• Divide Lake
• Football
• Holiday closures
• Major League Baseball
• North Umpqua Trail
• On the Air
• Playoff paring continues in Boston
• REDMOND SENIOR GETS HER WISH

OBITS

• Cincinnati Pops director Erich Kunzel
• Hall of Fame jockey ‘Milo’ Valenzuela, 74
• Illusionist and pickpocket David Avadon

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices
• Rae Pfeiffer
• Reuben W. Evans
• William "Bill" Henry Abbott

NATION & WORLD

• Along with fighting blazes, fire crews battling effects of health care crisis
• Arctic warming reverses 1,900-year cooling trend
• CDC finds more swine flu deaths among older kids
• Chavez courts allies as protesters organize
• Disappearing benefits
• Ethnic tension again roils region of China
• FDA declares birth control pills safe, despite some health risks, in 1969
• Homicide probed in massive Southern California arson fire
• Iranian president’s Cabinet picks OK’d
• Is the moon out of reach?
• 18 killed in massacre at Mexico drug rehab center
• New inquiry ordered into journalist’s death
• Obama advisers split on size of U.S. force
• Orbiting junk doesn't stop spacewalk
• Schumer: Change funding for the SEC
• Scientists begin census of microbes that live in, on us
• Steens roadwork flawed, BLM review shows
• U.S. cuts off most aid to Honduras

FEATURES

• Along with fighting blazes, fire crews battling effects of health care crisis
• CDC finds more swine flu deaths among older kids
• RV lot will raise money for shelter in Redmond

ENTERTAINMENT

• A couple more options for your ears
• Art exhibits
• Avast, ye mateys!
• Blues explosion!
• Brett Dennen arrives to invade Bend's dreams
• Building steam
• Cascade Winds accepting applications
• Celebrities join family members at Michael Jackson’s funeral service
• Down in the Boondocks
• Embracing the G word
• ‘Extract' is enjoyable but lacks true genius
• Family Events Calendar
• Gallery Walk hits Bend tonight
• ‘Ghostbusters’: Be haunted by a classic
• He’s country
• Hypnotic honeybees, spellbinding spiders
• Imus signs deal with Fox Business Network
• Moon Mountain fest returns for 2nd year
• Movie times
• Music releases
• New dvd releases
• 3 Old Mill restaurants sign on to composting program
• On local screens
• Out of town
• Parents’ Guide to Movies
• Planning ahead
• Public comment sought for new art
• Sagebrush Rock plays Christmas Valley
• ‘SNL’ adds 2 performers for fall season
• The bewitching George Winston and his pastoral piano songs return to Bend
• The human element
• This week
• Upcoming concerts
• You'll roll your eyes at this film

RESTAURANTS

• Down in the Boondocks

OPINION

• Buy in Bend
• Eat healthy
• Health care need
• Helicopters make noise
• Help Skyline
• Kitzhaber has uphill battle for governor
• The public gets taken by county
• Why some teachers let students pick the books they study

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Steens roadwork flawed, BLM review shows