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High Desert Museum to reopen interior exhibits, with timed tickets
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) With Deschutes County moving into the High Risk category for COVID-19 precautions, the High Desert Museum will welcome visitors into its indoor exhibits starting on Friday.
Timed tickets are highly encouraged, as capacity is limited. Tickets may be reserved at highdesertmuseum.org/tickets.
The Museum’s outdoor exhibitions reopened after a statewide freeze on activities in early December. The change means the public will get its first chance to view the new, original Museum exhibition
On Jan. 15 Michael Perkins retired from his a job as director of the Orange County Regional History Center. His departure closes a 26-year career of educating folks about our area’s past, a history that surprises some newcomers who may have had the mistaken notion that Central Florida began with Walt Disney World.
After nearly 30 years as the director of the West Bloomfield Township Public Library, Clara Bohrer recently retired. Bohrer is pictured in 2010 with former First Lady Michelle Obama and local resident Cameron Thomas-Shah after the library was one of five in the United States to be awarded the National Medal for Museum and Library Service.
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Longtime West Bloomfield library director retires
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WEST BLOOMFIELD Nearly 30 years ago, Clara Bohrer received a phone call to inform her that she had been hired as the director of the West Bloomfield Township Public Library.
She was so enthusiastic about the news that she “couldn’t wait to hang up from that call so I could call my husband, parents and friends, and say, ‘Oh my goodness, I’m (going to) be able to work in West Bloomfield.’”