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Boondocks is no mas, at least come the end of the month.
Everyone’s favorite place to recreate MTV Spring Break will be closing March 31.
The Century Center has a new website (still under construction) so be sure to check the events calendar for upcoming goodness.
Since its opening the Century Center has quickly become a favorite concert venue in Bend.
Yeah, they had that awesome song, “Harden my Heart.” Remember? If you need help breaking down the video’s complexities, see Mike’s previous blog on the subject.
When Redmond leaders announced roughly eight years ago that they landed T-Mobile’s call center and more than 300 jobs with it with a combination of tax breaks, cheap land and labor, it was an economic development coup on par with Prineville’s wooing of Facebook, or at least it seemed like it in the pre-social media age. I recall then-Governor Ted Kulongoski choppering into the Redmond airport for the ceremonial ribbing cutting.
…Where’s there’s a long line for the free Deschutes.
Actually, this forum should be very interesting, given Bachelor’s new spring operating hours and the recent Community B.O.
How’s your pet doing in all this spring muckety-muck? Make sure he/she/it is well cared for, especially through all of this weird, Central Oregon weather.
To help y’all out, and because we love critters, we’re giving away two (2!) $25 gift certificates to Bend Pet Express.
Cool video segment from Source columnist Sebastian Foltz that he shot on a recent spring trip with Mt. Bailey’s crew.
Dressed in a signature black leather trench coat with a prodigious and graying beard that spills over his collar and down the front of his shirt, Timm Schimke cuts a Grizzly Adams meets Jerry Garcia visage. If he doesn't look like your average bureaucrat, that's because he's not.
On a recent blustery March afternoon, Schimke gave me a quick tour of his office the 80-plus-acre Knott landfill. It's a place that most residents would prefer to know as little about as possible. Knott landfill has been taking local residents' refuse for more than 30 years, and Schimke has been here for most of them starting as a heavy equipment operator and working his way up to solid waste director.
Northwest wind farms inched past the 4,000 megawatt mark briefly on Sunday, a mark that many analysts did not expect the industry to reach for several more years. The electrical output, which peaked at 4,039 megawatts around 3 p.
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