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For those hearty souls who like to cut their own Christmas tree like Clark W. Griswold, the time to buy your permits has come. The $5 permits are good for one tree and are available for purchase weekdays from 8am to 4:30pm at the Deschutes or Ochoco Supervisor or District Offices, as well as retail […]
Midterm elections—the elections that take place in between presidential election years—traditionally see lower voter turnout rates than presidential election years. That holds true for the 2018 election cycle, compared to 2016, but in terms of sheer numbers, voters in Deschutes County turned out in far bigger numbers this year than they did in 2014. Here […]
The winning poems from the 2018 Source poetry contest—and a word about why they won, from the judges. The 2nd annual Source poetry contest was, like last year, a collaboration between this publication and the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Oregon State University-Cascades. We received hundreds of submissions from writers in […]
The “Blue Wave” that swept dozens of Democrats into the U.S. House didn’t mean much to those of us residing in what is still decidedly Trump Country. Reefer Madness now dominates the Deschutes County Commission in the forms of incumbent Phil Henderson and Commissioner-elect Patti Adair, who defeated Democrat James Cook by a thin margin […]
Following an unexpected cooling-off period this summer, our local real estate market took an unexpected swing in the opposite direction for October. According to October 2018 Central Oregon MLS statistics for Bend single family residences (excluding condos and manufactured homes) on one acre or less, the market heated up again, with the median price increasing […]
At last estimate, the three wildfires burning in California had killed 42 people, with 200 still missing. Fires have burned nearly 200,000 acres and displaced hundreds of thousands of people in Paradise, Calif. and Chico, and also around Malibu. Last Sunday, the Oregon Department of Forestry deployed two strike teams to help battle the Camp […]
Bend’s Riverbend Brewing is closing its original brewpub this month. Its leaders say they’re closing due to personal health concerns, but say they’ll continue to brew beer for distribution as they look for another location. “It comes as sad news that, as of November 19, 2018, our original brew pub will be closing its doors […]
Oregon State University-Cascades just released its enrollment numbers for the start of the 2018-2019 school year. One of the most striking stats: A higher rate of enrollment for students of color. Among its first-year enrollees, OSU-Cascades is reporting a rate of close to 23 percent—or 22.9 percent—students of color. That stat comes from a relatively […]
Although Jamie McLeod-Skinner didn’t win the election in Oregon’s 2nd Congressional District, she did accomplish something that no Democrat has ever done before—getting more votes than Greg Walden in Deschutes County. According to unofficial county elections results from the Deschutes County Elections, Democrat McLeod-Skinner garnered 45,020 votes in Deschutes County, to Republican Walden’s 44,392. To […]
Bend City Councilor Sally Russell won the election Tuesday to become Bend’s first directly elected mayor. It was a crowded race, with six candidates in the running. According to the latest unofficial results released by the Deschutes County Clerk, Russell took 50.18 percent of the vote—amounting to 21,666 votes as of Wednesday morning. Next in […]
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