A long-standing feud between two factions of the tourism community is boiling over again this week. This time, the conflict is about whether to raise hotel room taxes. The Bend City Council discussed whether to take the proposal to raise room taxes to the voters at its meeting on Wednesday night, but deferred a decision […]
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We Know Our Lust List Winners!
Over 400 of you took our Lust List survey this year and the results are in! Some perennial hotties and some new heart-throbs on the scene. All will be featured in our Love Issue on stands next Wednesday. Among our favorite non-winners was… Facebook Rock on Little Caesar’s Lady …the Little Caesar’s Lady for Hottest […]
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We Want to Know Your Wedding Proposal Story
Our annual Love Issue is right around the corner and we want to hear about your ultimate love moment—when your sweetie asked for your hand in marriage! Get on our Facebook page and tell us all about it! We’ll take a selection of your answers and print your stories in our Feb. 7 Love Issue!
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Scouts May Be Close to Ending Ban on Gay Participants
Big story: Several media outlets are reporting today that the Boy Scouts of America’s board of directors is currently considering lifting the group’s ban on gay scouts and troop leaders. If the national ban is lifted, local organizations would likely still have the ability to limit access to troops, according to several news reports. Here’s […]
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Last day to vote for Central Oregon’s hottest hotties!!!!
Hottest brewer?Hottest teacher?Hottest guy that ever installed your carpet? Come on Central Oregon, give these hotties a shout out! Take the Lust List survey right now.
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Won Over
Karrin Allyson was pro and so is Jazz at the Oxford
As a teenager, I was pretty sure I wanted to be a professional singer. Took years of voice lessons, sang with the local opera company and eventually went to college for vocal performance. I ended up hating all the diva that comes with being a female performer and dropped out of the music program the […]
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New Music Video Filmed at Peterson Rock Garden
We were approached today about posting a locally-produced music video. We saw it and thought we should share it with ya’ll. Don’t Know Nothing ‘Bout Love, by Pennan Brae. Directed by Tim Cash of FFE Films. Got a music video filmed here in Bend? Send it on over. We want to publish it.
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Nike is a No-Go
Just Not Doing It (In Bend) Nike is not coming to Bend. Oregon State Senator Tim Knopp, of Bend, sent an email to local journalists, politicians and economic leaders this afternoon delivering the news. “As we anticipated I heard back from NIKE and their expansion is going to focus on metro area sites for the […]
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EarthCam Offers Cool Views of MLK Memorial
You may not have time to volunteer today with Volunteer Connect, Bend’s main MLK-related event, but you can still take a moment to remember the man with a trip to his memorial via EarthCam. EarthCam has woven time lapse photography into a short movie of the creation of the MLK monument in D.C., which was […]
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Source Twitter Feed Prompts KTVZ to Grill City Councilor
It was a good ol’ time in the town on Wednesday night at the swearing in of three new Bend city councilors and the election of Jim Clinton as mayor. The mood was a little raucous in the audience and up on the dais where the councilors spoke their minds out loud and, in one […]