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It doesn’t take long for new arrivals to figure out that Bend is divided into two towns. It’s a story of have and have-nots, but also one of values— cross and road bikes versus motorcross bikes, if you will.
Pronghorn, the Jack Nicklaus and Tom Fazio anchored golf and housing development that kickstarted the destination resort boom in Central Oregon, announced that it has been sold to a Hawaii-based resort development and management company.
Like other resorts Pronghorn has been hard hit by the housing collapse and had been struggling to keep the five-star golf resort and development afloat.
The warmest spot at this year’s Bend Winterfest is the Bent Lounge hosted by The Source Weekly’s blog, Bent! It’s home to the only liquor bar on Winterfest grounds along with alternative sources of entertainment to further warm your loins. Stay tuned to the Bent Blog information related to the Bent Lounge and WinterFest as well as cool giveaways.
A 34-year-old Bend man has been arrested and charged with felony marijuana possession after a traffic stop led to massive pot seizure at a Bend storage facility.
According to police, Mark Wirges Jr.
Les Schwab could be on the hook for millions of dollars in fines after a jury in Portland decided today that the company failed to appropriately compensate assistant managers for overtime work.
The Bend-based tire company pushed its assistant managers to work an average of 66 hours per week without receiving overtime pay, the jury ruled.
Bank of the Cascades announced Thursday that it is pledging to make a billion dollar’s worth of loans to small businesses and other customers in its Oregon and Idaho markets over the next three years.
New CEO Terry Zink, who recently took over the leadership of the Bend-based Bank from longtime CEO Patti Moss, said in a press release that the decision to commit to the aggressive lending strategy was based on the bank’s belief that increased lending is key to the region’s economic recovery.
I just got back from sitting in on a bible study group (20 rosy-cheeked youngsters), conducted during school hours in a trailer just a couple hundred short yards from the front door of Tumalo Community School (a Redmond public school, K-8).
The Good News Club, which hosts the bible studies, is an “outreach ministry” for the world-wide organization, Child Evangelism Fellowship (whose seal states: “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations”).
Welcome to the inaugural column of Nostrafilmus, where I predict what new movies are going to be worth your time and money in the theater this weekend. I don’t have any psychic abilities per se, but I am a film critic for The Source Weekly and Chud.
It seems as though Bend’s rapidly expanding craft beer industry has done nothing but import brewers over the last few years. So it was probably time that we started exporting again.
In case there was any doubt, officials released an economic forecast today predicting more storms on the horizon.
Even as economic indicators show Oregon’s economy is slowly growing, the state said today that job creation still remains “glacial,” according to the forecast from the state’s Office of Economic Analysis.
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