Nicole Vulcan became Editor of the Source in 2016 and was promoted to Editor in Chief in 2024, managing the Editorial Board and the news team's many investigative projects. She's also at work on her debut book of journalistic non-fiction, titled "Self Medication," which traces Oregon's drug decriminalization efforts in the 21st Century, and tells a parallel tale of her own family’s losses from fentanyl addiction in the age of Measure 110. With all of that on her plate, send snacks. Catch up with the adventures at her book's Substack, called Self Medication.
If you’re one of the transplants who’ve recently moved here from Seattle or Portland or the Bay Area (as we know a lot of you are), you might fancy yourself a fine gardener, imbued with the natural ability to coax flowers and food from the ground just by tossing out a few seeds or starts. […]
Deschutes County and St. Charles Health System have launched a new web page that allows people to sign up to be alerted when it’s their turn to receive a COVID-19 vaccination. The site, centraloregoncovidvaccine.com, allows Central Oregonians to enter their name, address and other information that helps authorities sort out when they are eligible to […]
Here are some of the latest tidbits happening in and around Beer Town, USA. Cascade Lakes Brewing Reopens its Pub with a New Look When it comes to apres-ski beer offerings, snow riders don’t get much closer to the mountain than the Cascade Lakes Brewpub at the Colorado Avenue/Century Drive roundabout. For the past four […]
La Pine A La Carte, the food cart pod that began its journey in Central Oregon in 2019, is on the hunt for new food carts. Owner Denny Morgan put a call out on the Source calendar page, asking for “a new or favorite food cart or even a mobile vendor.” Interested parties can contact […]
Locals keep the economic engine of Central Oregon running—and every once in a while, we like to check in with the Source Weekly’s calendar listings to share an updated list of the locals’ nights on our radar. As things begin to open back up and (hopefully) get back to something resembling normal, these are some […]
Sometime last fall I picked up a jar of pickles from Central Oregon Locavore. My mom’s homemade pickle supply had run dry and I was interested in trying a new brand—and the fact that this jar was made locally made it all the more enticing. I’ve been dreaming of those pickles ever since. Not only […]
It’s a simple premise: After one year of living with COVID-19 and coming to terms with our nation’s legacy of institutional racism, we wanted to know, what have those experiences taught us? And beyond that, how have they changed us? The Source Weekly reached out to a host of local leaders and community members to […]
After a raucous 2020 election season, some might be overwhelmed at the prospect of going through it all again—but here we are, looking at another election season. Local elections for school board parks and other positions are happening May 18. Ballots will be mailed out starting April 28, and the Source will conduct endorsement interviews […]
A Bend man faces three charges of second-degree murder following the deaths of a pair of brothers over the March 20 weekend, along with the earlier death of a Bend woman. Bend Police arrested Randall Kilby, 35, on March 21, after cops found two men dead in a house on Granite Drive in southwest Bend. The […]
A tiki-themed lounge has opened in Bend’s Old Mill. Rapa Nui Tiki Lounge opened this month in the upstairs space above Saxon’s, formerly occupied by Level Two. Rapa Nui serves fresh-pressed cocktails along with tapas with an Asian fusion flavor. Check out several versions of bao, the Chinese-style buns, along with wings and drinks including the […]
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