City News

Neighborhood Forum Examines Bend’s Wildfire Risk

By Southern Crossing Neighborhood Association / April 16, 2025 / Comments Off on Neighborhood Forum Examines Bend’s Wildfire Risk

You are invited to the Wildfire Forum organized by Old Farm Neighborhood District on Thursday, April 24 at 5:30 pm at the Larkspur Community Center (located at Reed Market Road and 15th Street). Doors open at 4:30 pm. As Bend grows ever closer to the wildfire-susceptible Deschutes National Forest, what is being done to protect our community?  This event…

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Annual Fire Free Yard Debris Disposal Event

By Southern Crossing Neighborhood Association / April 13, 2025 / Comments Off on Annual Fire Free Yard Debris Disposal Event

Deschutes County is once again conducting a FireFree event this spring. The usual fee at Knott Landfill will be waived so that you may dispose of yard waste for free. This includes grass clippings, brush, plant prunings, pine needles, pine cones, weeds, trimmings, and branches, stumps or trees no larger than 12” diameter. This event…

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Chamberlain Street NSSP Project Design Update

By Southern Crossing Neighborhood Association / October 1, 2024 / Comments Off on Chamberlain Street NSSP Project Design Update

The city has reached what they call “30% design” of the Neighborhood Street Safety Program (NSSP) project on SW Chamberlain Street. The city is planning to pave a 300-foot gravel section of the street, including the addition of safety improvements for bicycles and pedestrians, add an improved bicycle/pedestrian crossing of SW Reed Market Road, and…

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Free Home Energy Assessment and Low Cost Upgrades

By Southern Crossing Neighborhood Association / September 17, 2024 / Comments Off on Free Home Energy Assessment and Low Cost Upgrades

The Environmental Center’s mission is to embed sustainability into daily life in Central Oregon. They translate sustainability into practical, local action in order to create a healthy future for people and the planet. The Environmental Center (TEC) is working with Energy Trust of Oregon to help ensure access to Energy Trust incentives to communities who…

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Solarize Deschutes Discount Program

By Southern Crossing Neighborhood Association / August 12, 2024 / Comments Off on Solarize Deschutes Discount Program

The Environmental Center, Energize Bend, Envision Bend and the City of Bend have teamed up with Energy Trust of Oregon and Solar Oregon for a Solarize campaign, running August 15 through October 31, to make it easy and more affordable to install solar. Any homeowner with a Deschutes County address is eligible to participate. Why…

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