Business News

A local family-owned McDonald’s franchise invites the community of the Greater Bend Region to a fun-filled celebration to commemorate the year their family opened the first McDonald’s east of the Cascades on November 13, 1973. Local McDonald’s Owner, Scott Acarregui, is a third generation Owner Operator whose grandfather, Bill Bloom, opened the first McDonald’s at 2048 […]

Central Oregon’s nonprofit i4Education organization has announced that it is rebranding and expanding the region’s TED-Ed talks and master class for presenters. Over the past two years, i4Education, the innovation arm of the High Desert Education Service District, has hosted and led two highly successful Central Oregon TED-Ed talks and trained 20 speakers using the […]

David Wrathall, Ph.D., Associate Professor, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University will share  the findings from his role as a lead author of the UN’s latest climate assessment on November 14 at COCC in Bend. Wrathall researches human migration in response to various climate change hazards, including sea level rise, […]

The next Southern Crossing Neighborhood Association board meeting is Thursday, November 16th at 5 p.m. All neighhbors in the Southern Crossing area are welcome to attend board meetings, which are held via Zoom. Email register@bendscna.org by noon the day before the meeting to request a Zoom invitation. If you would like to request time on […]

The eighth annual Central Oregon Fill Your Pantry event will be Saturday, November 11th from 11am to 3pm at the OSU-Extension parking lot at the Deschutes County Fairgrounds. Fill Your Pantry (FYP) is a yearly bulk-focused farmers market created to increase food security and resilience in Central Oregon by encouraging the community to load up […]

Central Oregon Community College (COCC) is holding its annual Turkey Trot fundraiser, a 5K run/walk, at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 4, at the Bend campus’s track, preceded by the free Toddler Trot. Free to COCC students, the Turkey Trot event is $15 for preregistered participants (plus $2.50 in online fees) and $20 for those […]

Economic Development for Central Oregon (EDCO) hosted the 20th Annual Bend Venture Conference (BVC) earlier this month at locations around Bend. During the conference, 14 finalists presented their ideas and business models to an audience of hundreds in hopes of gaining investment from prominent funds. Of those finalists, eight companies were awarded a total of […]

The effort to build the Central Oregon Center for the Arts took another step forward with the hiring of a consulting company to assist the COCA Board of Directors as it builds its operating and organizational infrastructure. This effort will be led by John C. Jepson, a Netzel Grigsby Associates executive who is based in […]

Twenty-eight Oregon arts organizations will each receive a $10,000 grant to strengthen arts education for K-12 students through $280,000 in Oregon Arts Commission Arts Learning Program funding for fiscal year 2024. All funded projects feature partnerships with Oregon schools within communities throughout the state. The High Desert Museum in Bend is the recipient of one […]

Kevin Pilla, owner of Budd + Finn in Portland is opening a second location in Bend’s Old Mill District in the coming weeks, replacing the Ticket Mill near REI. The Ticket Mill, which sells Old Mill District gift cards and Hayden Homes Amphitheater concert tickets, was absorbed into the district’s second-floor management office earlier this […]