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Good Times in Lilโ€™ Olโ€™ Bend

The Sourceโ€™s first arts editor recalls the days before the Old Mill and the six-figure population

Iโ€™m not going to lie: I cried as I drove into Bend on a hot summer day in the summer of 1998. As we crept along Highway 97โ€“which was then just Third Streetโ€“in a poky parade of bumper-to-bumper RVs and cars, I started to second-guess my decision to move to this small central Oregon town […]

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