Bend’s growth is inevitable. Draft projections from Portland State University predict that the city’s population will surpass 130,000 in 20 years. With this in mind, in what way the city grows is both a subject of deep concern and an opportunity for the community to help shape the future. The inaugural Bend Livability Project is […]
Erin Rook
Erin was a writer and editor at the Source from 2013 to 2016.
Posted inFood & Drink
Top 5 Additions to the Central Oregon Food Scene
1. Global Fusion If you’re getting that déjà vu feeling, it’s probably because we included the food cart Bethlyn’s Global Fusion last year. But we figure the move to a brick-and-mortar location in Bend’s up-and-coming Maker’s District, one of our favorite places to chow down, deserves a mention. Global Fusion landed in the former home […]
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Top Local News Stories of the Year
1. Mirror Pond This year, the Mirror Pond debate continued to ebb and flow. In March, Bend City Council narrowly voted to support the ad hoc committee’s “preferred alternative”—a hybrid plan that would have maintained the pond while removing the failing Newport Dam. By July, that committee was reportedly preparing to make an offer to […]
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Laying Bend’s Foundation
Kirk Schueler looks to the future of Brooks Resources
A century ago, Brooks-Scanlon announced it would set up its sawmill along the Deschutes River. It entered the scene as Bend was in the midst of a population boom—jumping from 536 to 5,415 between 1910 and 1920—and a shift from frontier land to timber country. Since then, the company has played a pivotal role in […]
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Happy Trails
A uniquely Oregon holiday experience
Growing up, Christmas celebrations in the Rook household were fairly traditional with one notable exception. On Christmas morning, we knew it was time to get up and see what Santa brought when we heard the Trail Band’s holiday tunes emanating from Dad’s sound system (then a Pioneer six-disk CD changer). Unlike conventional holiday tunes sung […]
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In Full Bloom
Fruition continues to evolve
You can’t always judge a book by its cover, though sometimes, those assumptions can color the content. Though Portland-based band Fruition is composed of stringed instrument players—including a mandolin—and its music has always had folk-tinged roots, it was never meant to be a bluegrass band. Still, over the years, Fruition accepted this fate and began […]
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Take Me Home 12/2-12/9
Home Buying for the Holidays
Conventional wisdom states that winter is a less than ideal time to list a home. The logic behind this belief is that people are more inclined to visit an open house—or to drive a U-Haul full of their belongings—during the warmer, drier summer months. But a recent analysis of web traffic to Realtor.com reveals some […]
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Soup’s On!
Bean, Pea, and the Pumpkin delivers home-cooked goodness
Like many of the best chefs, Kortney Barnes took her first culinary courses at the school of mom. “Some of my fondest childhood memories are in the kitchen cooking with my mother,” recalls Barnes, owner of local soup-and-salad slinger Bean, Pea, and the Pumpkin. My mother rarely used a cookbook but instead allowed her skills, […]
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VIDEO: The Oldest Tree in the Badlands
In this week’s Go Here, Brian Jennings explores the Badlands Wilderness and discovers one of the regions oldest trees—a juniper believed to be some 2,000 years old. In the video below, Jennings talks to members of Friends of the Badlands Wilderness, digging deeper into the significance of these ancient trees.