Kathryn Styer Martínez
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Sisters approaches final hurdles to approve urban growth boundary amendment map (opens the original)
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Under the noonday sun, Ben Walsh gazed across the meadow where he grew up outside Sisters and pictured an elementary school and homes alongside open fields. “I think the new elementary school should be right there,” he said of the 20 acres his family owns as hawks cried overhead. But whether Walsh gets his wish will depend on the outcome of a complicated and protracted battle about how this small Central Oregon city should grow. The community of nearly 4,000 people is one of the fastest-growing
OSU-Cascades to lease childcare building to Head Start program (opens the original)
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A Central Oregon childcare center that closed abruptly in July will soon open its doors to children once more. Oregon State University-Cascades announced Tuesday that it will partner with local nonprofit NeighborImpact to provide 33 Head Start childcare slots for children five and younger, starting Sept. 8. The Bend-based public university shocked the Central Oregon and childcare community when it announced the closure of it’s state-of-the art childcare center, Little Kits, in May. At the time,
Akawa Butte Fire evacuations continue as fire burns more than 26,000 acres (opens the original)
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Nearly 2,000 people have been ordered to evacuate – some for the second time in a year – as heat and dry winds continue to fuel a wildfire near Sisters, Oregon. At least one home had been destroyed by Thursday morning, and more than 10,000 people were told to prepare for the possibility they may also need to evacuate. Fire officials said a massive pyrocumulus cloud had formed over the Akawa Butte Fire Wednesday afternoon, creating its own weather system, which brought lightning and led to some e
Deschutes County could see multi-winner ranked-choice voting on this year’s ballot (opens the original)
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Beth Hoover voted ‘no’ on a statewide ballot measure to implement single-winner ranked-choice voting in Oregon two years ago because she thought it was too confusing for voters. Nevertheless, the 78-year-old Bend resident attended an educational event hosted by the League of Women Voters of Deschutes County earlier this week about a proposed ballot measure to implement multiple-winner ranked-choice voting – an even more complex version – for a local contest. The measure that organizers want to p
Bend daycare closure highlights infant care desert in Central Oregon (opens the original)
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OSU-Cascades Little Kits daycare center closed with two months' notice, leaving nearly two dozen families in a lurch.
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