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The Deschutes County Board of County Commissioners voted to place a divisive districting proposal on November’s general election ballot. After hearing heated commentary from the public during the July 15 meeting, county commissioners voted 2 to 1, approving edited language for the ballot measure. Commissioner Phil Chang was the sole opponent.

When Lindsey Stirling sits down to write an album, she’s not only thinking about what she wants to play on her violin and how she’ll arrange the rest of the music around it, she keeps in mind how the song could be performed and how it will fit into her highly acclaimed show. “I’ve always written music not so much because I love the writing process, but because I love performing,” she said. “That’s the whole reason I started getting into the style of music I do.

Summer reading has a look: a pastel cover, a beach chair and a sunset in the background. But the look isn’t the point. Summer reading is a mood. It’s the book you crack open at noon on a lazy summer day and then look up to find the light’s gone. The one-sitting kind, the can’t-put-it-down kind. I’ve got four for you, and no two are alike: a backyard satire, a boy-band cruise, a Tuscan comedy and a romance to send you off warm.

Organic grocer to open in downtown Redmond The vacant JoAnn Fabrics building on SW Sixth Street in Redmond will soon be home to Natural Grocers. The City of Redmond says the Redmond Urban Renewal Agency has approved a forgivable grant of up to $500,000 to Natural Grocers for building improvements. The City says the grocery chain plans to invest about $2 million to transform the site with interior and exterior renovations.

The fifth pharmaceutical company sued by Oregon’s attorney general and dozens of other state attorneys general for violating federal antitrust laws in the last decade agreed to settle, this time for nearly $30 million.

Oregonians kept more than 130,000 mattresses and box springs from landfills during 2025, the first full year of a new statewide recycling program with free collection points in nearly all of the state’s 36 counties. The Mattress Stewardship Program went into full swing in January 2025, three years after the state Legislature passed a law to make it easier to recycle mattresses and box springs to reduce illegal dumping.

Redmond Municipal Airport (RDM) will be hosting a TSA Pre✓® enrollment event in collaboration with IDEMIA, a TSA PreCheck authorized enrollment provider. Travelers will be able to enroll or renew membership at 2252 Jesse Butler Circle, in the terminal conference room across from baggage claim. The enrollment process is quick, convenient, and even faster when the application is completed online beforehand.

Speaker Marichelle Gurska shares her experience working with the Global Sumud Flotilla and analyzes how the Global Ceasefire Movement has lead to European restrictions of freedom of expression. She will connect domestic issues with global ones and give you the tools to take tangible action TODAY. Come for an hour and leave with something you can actually do. You don’t need a passport stamp from Europe to have a stake in this fight over who gets to speak freely and who doesn’t.

This year’s Sunriver Art Fair commemorative poster will feature “Autumn on the Deschutes” by Maia Leisz. Leisz paints in oil on canvas, building contemporary impressionist landscapes and seascapes through expressive brushwork and a luminous color palette. She works from direct observation — light as it falls on water, the shift of color on a hillside before the shadows move, the particular stillness of a crisp Autumn day on the Deschutes.

One in ten people in Deschutes County access services through a Deschutes Children’s Foundation (DCF) campus. That staggering number represents nearly 21,000 children and family members who accessed services through DCF’s four campuses in 2025 alone. Behind every visit is a story: a parent seeking support, a child receiving critical services, a family navigating a crisis, or a young person finding the resources they need to thrive.