Local filmmaker Chris Kas just finished work on his short film, "Good News" and wouldn't you know it if the Source Weekly played a starring role. Well, actually one of our boxes was the star, not us.
Carla Axtman of BlueOregon says she has reliable information that perennial anti-tax crusader and racketeer Bill Sizemore has lost the support of his two sugar-daddies.
There's some serious talk about bringing passenger rail service back to Baker City, but will Bend ever see the return of passenger trains? That seems about as probable as finding Amelia Earhart alive.
So, two weeks and some 215 votes later we're proud to announce the winners of the first-ever Source Weekly/Far From Earth Films Music Video contest.
Anastacia took top honors with the song "Grains of Sand.
A Republican state senator from Central Oregon and the head of the state Land Conservation and Development Commission traded shots over Gov. Ted Kulongoski's plan to protect the Metolius Basin, with the senator charging that public hearings on the plan are just for show and the LCDC chief saying he's got it wrong.
Ex-City Councilor Peter Gramlich is leaving Bend for greener - and more progressive - pastures in Portland.
Rack up another serious head-on crash for Highway 97 - not a fatal one this time, fortunately, but one that easily could have been.
Mt. Bachelor is doing its part to help cushion the blow of our floundering economy with an awesome shredonomic funulus package.
Archie Hamilton, a 45-year-old student at Central Oregon Community
College, describes himself as a dislocated worker. He’s spent most of
his adult life in the wood industry, primarily as a mill worker, but
his last job was with Bend’s Host Industries building motor homes and
campers. Last summer, when gas prices peaked out and the economy
nosedived, Hamilton, went to the Oregon Employment Department to apply
for benefits and to find work using the state’s iMatchSkills jobs
database, only to discover that there were only 200 job openings posted
across the state.
"I was told at the unemployment office that all of the skills I had
were really tough to match with a job," Hamilton said. "I had a friend
who had gone back to school in addiction studies at COCC and he talked
me into filling out forms for grants and applying to get into school."
The Brand Insight Blog, published by BN Branding, a Bend marketing consulting firm, offers some unconventional wisdom about why Jody Denton's once-red-hot Bend restaurants, Merenda and Deep, cooled off and went under.
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