Being a Portlander, one of my favorite places to get out of town to for a few days is Bend, Oregon. It is part ski town, part hippster scence and party retirement area. The weather is great, the scenery is beautiful and Mt. Bachelor is just down the road.
Despite all of these great attributes, Bend [...]
Two weeks ago, rumors began swirling that a white supremacist group called the Aryan Nations was seeking a new home in Oregon. This week, those rumors were confirmed when the groups leader made a statement to the press.
Paul Mullet of Athol, Idaho hopes to move his Aryan Nation group to John Day, in Eastern Oregon. [...]
From ReadWriteWeb.com:
Google is giving a small town in Oregon $100,000 for free Wi-Fi. It’s a town called The Dalles – a community with an interesting significance for Google.
The Dalles is a city of 12,000 people along the Columbia River, about 80 miles east of Portland. Google owns a massive data center there. It’s a key [...]
From TechCrunch:
Facebook has 350 million users now and thanks to worldwide growth, shows no signs of letting up. While still technically a startup — though one with around $750 million in funding — its size and traffic puts it in the same league as some of the biggest sites on the web. That’s why it’s [...]
An Oregon State Police (OSP) trooper, with the assistance of a drug detection canine, arrested two people on the last day of 2009 after finding approximately 50 pounds of marijuana during a traffic stop on Interstate 84 in the La Grande area.
According to OSP Sergeant Larry Graves, on December 31, 2009 an OSP trooper stopped [...]
Two people were injured, one seriously, Tuesday evening in a two vehicle head-on crash on Highway 370 (O’Neil Highway) between Prineville and Redmond. Oregon State Police (OSP) troopers from the Bend Area Command office are continuing the investigation.
According to OSP Sergeant Don Wagner, on December 29, 2009 at approximately 7:53 p.m. a 1986 Ford Taurus [...]
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