Letters to the Editor

Editor’s note: It’s here: Our Summer Music Guide that lists all the music shows already announced for the summer—and there are a lot! We here at the Source Weekly are thrilled to see live music rolling into our calendar in great numbers once again, ensuring that we—along with the rest of the music lovers out […]

Editor’s note: Something—besides the obvious lifting of mask mandates for vaccinated individuals—happened this week that gave me and my staff a sense that life may be slowly returning to more of a normal pace. The Source Weekly’s events calendar was, pre-COVID, nearly always the number-one visited page on our website, but over the past year, […]

Editor’s note: The Governor’s announcement this week that counties with adult vaccination rates of over 65% would be able to see risk-level restrictions lifted was, as expected, like a weight lifted. Seeing vaccination rates tied to risk levels makes sense—and with Deschutes County having over 60% of its population vaccinated, it means the end may […]

Editor’s note: It happens every time: The Source Weekly staff and I spend countless hours poring over the listings for restaurants in Bend, Redmond, Sisters and beyond—and as a result, we get endlessly hungry to try all the places we’d forgotten about since the last time we put out a Restaurant Guide (or Happy Hour […]

Editor’s note: Indoor dining, you were fun. For those of us who have bought and sold the notion that having our society get vaccinated would be the key to never seeing our bars, restaurants and other establishments closed to COVID-19 ever again, the advent of another round of Extreme Risk for Crook and Deschutes and […]

Editor’s note: With the warm temperatures and the warnings about the potential for fires happening this week, it’s kinda hard to believe that it’s only April and not June in Central Oregon. Fortunately, no unplanned fires have emerged yet, and locals still have a short amount of time to parade around the Deschutes River or […]

Editor’s note From the latest edition of our Leaflet cannabis guide to a look at one way that the Oregon Legislative Assembly is trying to tackle police reform and mental health services, there’s lots to read and enjoy in this week’s edition. And even as political leaders make an effort to stop the needless stops, […]

Editor’s note: A few hours before this issue was headed to press, we got the word that Deschutes County would be experiencing something of a backslide in its reopening. The county moves from Moderate Risk back to High Risk—which allows only 25% occupancy in restaurants and other public spaces—as of Friday, April 9. Crook and […]

Editor’s note: I don’t think I’m alone in saying that spring is one of my favorite times of the year. Snow left in the mountains to enjoy at our leisure, dry roads to bike upon and little bugs and buds just beginning to strut their stuff… there’s so much to love about the rebirthing of […]

Editor’s note: I could not have put it better than The Washington Post’s 5-Minute Fix newsletter, which on Tuesday outlined the events of the past week with the statement, “Back to our regularly scheduled mass shootings, intractable gun politics.” Fast on the heels of the Atlanta spa shootings that sparked so much conversation about ending […]