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By David Holley / The Bulletin
July 25, 2010
A year after a private Hood River equity fund bought The Shire housing development from Umpqua Bank, Bend’s version of the fictional land of hobbits has changed in only a few ways.
One is a new name. No longer do its new owners, Castle Advisers LLC, refer to it as The Shire, but instead Forest....