Published 10:44 am Monday, April 27, 2026 Two future seats on the Deschutes County Commission will likely be filled next month. And those races have reached a fever pitch as candidates try to reach voters in the final week before ballots arrive in mailboxes across the county. Candidates for those seats — positions one and four on the new five-person board — faced off at a forum at the Redmond Senior Center on Friday. Jamie Collins, Tony DeBone, Rick Russell and Chet Wamboldt discussed homelessness and housing and the future of the soon to be five-seat commission, among other topics. Position 1, Jamie Collins and Tony DeBone Jamie Collins, a U.S. Coast Guard veteran, is challenging incumbent county commissioner Tony DeBone. They debated various topics ahead of the May 19 election for DeBone’s commission seat. Collins discussed the things that make Deschutes County great: the outdoors and the people who live here.…