The two Bend Haggen grocery stores will apparently remain open, as they were not included on a list of 100 stores the chain wants to close in Arizona, California, Oregon, Nevada and Washington.

As it seeks to reorganize under Chapter 11, Haggen has asked the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for permission to sell the 100 stores, 67 of which are in California, according to a recent news release from the company. However, in court documents, the company said it might modify the list.

The proposed sales would be in addition to the sale of 27 stores in the same five states that Haggen announced in August.

In both sales combined, the company expects to sell 12 grocery stores in Oregon, according to lists it has provided: five in the Portland metro area and the rest in Ashland, Baker City, Grants Pass, Keizer, Springfield and two in Klamath Falls.

Haggen, based in Bellingham, Washington, agreed in December to buy 146 Albertsons and Safeway stores the two chains need to sell as part of their merger. The stores included two in Bend, one on the north side and the other on the south. At the time, Haggen had 18 stores including two in Oregon.

Such a large expansion, however, had its problems, although Haggen blamed Albertsons. Haggen filed a lawsuit Sept. 1 against Albertsons, seeking $1 billion and stating that Albertsons sabotaged the store-transition process. Haggen filed for bankruptcy protection a week later.

The grocery chain hopes to exit bankruptcy and continue operating 37 stores, 16 of the original stores and 21 that it bought from Albertsons and Safeway, according to the news release.