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Deschutes County• Steve Buettner, trustee of the Steve Buettner Revocable Living Trust, to Mark J. and Shannon M. Chambers, North Canyon Estates, Lot 14, Block 1, $348,900• Cedar Creek Village Partners LLC to Maureen M.

The Matsutake mushroom harvest season will begin Sept. 3 in the Deschutes, Fremont-Winema, Umpqua and Willamette national forests. The season will run through Nov. 3. Those who harvest mushrooms on national forest land must purchase a commercial harvest permit. Permits cost $200 for the 62-day season, $100 for a half-season permit, or $8 a day with a three-day minimum purchase. Harvesters must be at least 18 years or older and have a valid ID to obtain a permit.

Approximately 4,900 Pacific Power customers in south Bend will experience an electricity outage between 11 p. m. Wednesday and 5 a. m. Thursday, Pacific Power announced Monday.The outage will occur while overhead wires are moved to make way for a joint state and city road project involving U. S. Highway 97, Third Street and Murphy Road, the power company explained in a news release.

Police LogThe Bulletin will update items in the Police Log when such a request is received. Any new information, such as the dismissal of charges or acquittal, must be verifiable. For more information, call 541-383-0358.Bend Police DepartmentTheft — A theft was reported at 4:30 p.m. Aug.

For most Central Oregonians, the end of summer marks the end of grilling on the patio.

Two separate highway incidents during a Sunday thunderstorm resulted in one fatality due to a lighting strike and four people sent to area hospitals, according to Oregon State Police and the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.Bret Hemenway, 50, of Madras, died of electrocution when a tree under which he and his wife, Connie Hemenway, 49, had taken shelter around 4 p.m. was struck by lightning, according to the sheriff’s office. Medical personnel responded to Connie Hemenway around 4:25 p.m. She was treated at St.

More than 6,500 lightning strikes hit Bend and Redmond between 2 and 5 p. m. Sunday, according to Central Oregon Interagency Dispatch.

During the summer between her junior and senior year of college, Loretta Slepikas took a chance and got on a bus that carried her into the midst of one of the United States' most important events of the 20th century.Across the country, 24-year-old Betsy Lamb was living in Williamsburg and working with the Lutheran church there.

Two separate highway incidents during a Sunday thunderstorm resulted in one fatality due to a lighting strike and four people sent to area hospitals, according to Oregon State Police and the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.Bret Hemenway, 50, of Madras, died of electrocution when a tree under which he and his wife, Connie Hemenway, 49, had taken shelter around 4 p.m. was struck by lightning, according to the sheriff’s office. Medical personnel responded to Connie Hemenway around 4:25 p.m. She was treated at St.