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Dam Removal is Coming for Klamath
Green algae blobs choke handmade gill nets that should be filled with salmon. The Klamath River is warming, heated by drought and dams, and that allows the algae to thrive, making it harder and harder to catch fish. Some days, Yurok tribal members capture nothing but green goop. And some algae is toxic; one microscopic…
COVID’s Fourth Semester
COVID caught schools off guard when it first swept across the country in 2020. A lack of available testing and digital teaching tools resulted in mass quarantines, confusion among parents and students and the enactment of COVID-safe practices like wearing masks, daily surface disinfections and social distancing. Bend-La Pine Schools and Redmond School District will…
Source Weekly Update Podcast 8/26/21
In this week’s podcast: vaccinations are required for Oregonians in health care and public schools, and a battle against irrigation district piping. Source Weekly – Bend, Oregon · Source Weekly Update Podcast 8/26/21
Letters to the Editor 8/26/21
Editor’s note: Masks are back, indoors and out. Vaccinations are becoming required in a number of settings. The National Guard arrived at our local hospital this week. Local vets are weighing in about their time in Afghanistan as they see refugees clamor to get out. Anything else big happen this week? Some of those topics…
Vacunas Requeridas
La gobernadora de Oregon, Kate Brown, anunció esta semana que los trabajadores que brindan atención médica y los que trabajan en las escuelas de Kinder al 12o año, necesitan comprobar para el 18 de octubre que han sido completamente vacunados y así poder seguir trabajando. Anteriormente, los trabajadores que brindan atención médica y no querían…
Creamy, Leafy Summer
It’s a noun. It’s a verb. It’s a way of life.”Creamy,” said my friend Luci Brieger, when I asked how her summer was going. Creamy has many meanings at her farm—all of them good, all of them rooted in Brieger’s creamy salad dressing, aka “Creamy,” which tastes like what might happen if Caesar dressing had…
Bend Yoga Festival & Triathlon Rescheduled
All the exercise and stretching in the universe couldn’t change the circumstances that are creating the new “normal” way of living people are facing through this pandemic. Masks, social distancing and the Delta variant affect everyone, including Angela Liesching and her plans on having a Bend Yoga Festival and Mindful Triathlon this year. Last fall,…
Can I Change My Mind About Selling After Accepting an Offer?
All the work in preparing the property to list for sale is done, the listing is live and the offers start rolling in. Things are looking great and the seller accepts a fantastic offer for the price and terms they were looking for. A few days go by and rather than the usual celebratory feelings…
A Street Market on Galveston
For those already in the habit of attending First Friday events around Bend, why not add a second-and-fourth Friday event to the calendar as well? A beloved bagel shop on the west side of Bend has been playing host to a street market all summer long—and if you haven’t yet attended, there’s still time to…
Wii Are Not Amused
Wii Are Not Amused During quarantine, my boyfriend started spending two or three hours a night playing video games. Not only do I think this is unhealthy (since video games apparently lead to violence and psychological problems), but I think gaming has become a coping mechanism/escape tool for him. How can I get him to…
Free Will Astrology—Week of August 26
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “I sing like the nightingale whose melody is crowded in the too narrow passage of her throat,” wrote author Virginia Woolf. That was an insulting curse for her to fling at herself. I disapprove of such behavior—especially for you in the coming weeks. If you hope to be in alignment with…
The Third Act
An article in the Jan. 18, 2021, issue of The New Yorker addresses one woman’s serious pursuit of painting starting in her 60s. Stepping down from an accomplished career as a professor of history at Princeton, and as the author of seven books and the recipient of countless honors, Nell Painter decided to pursue a…
Little Night Music
Every once and a great while, a movie comes along that is so deeply weird, so profoundly and bafflingly strange, that your friendly neighborhood film critic is left staring at the closing credits at a total loss with how to proceed. Normally, if I know I’m going to write about a movie, something connected either…
Metal Artists Come to Shine
Over 20 years ago, a handful of local metal artists formed a guild in order to give themselves a formal way to meet and swap information. “The group began as a handful of jewelers who found they spent a fair amount of time sharing a beer, trading vendor, tools and technique information. In 1999 this…
Recent Climate Report is a Call to Action (Again!)
Two weeks ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the first part of its most recent climate change assessment. The physical science basis of Sixth Assessment Report painted a grim picture of all that we are doing to our planet—including that the fact that planet is warming faster than we thought and that our…
Leadbetter Band Announces new Album, ‘Howl’
This year’s Britt Music & Arts Festival concert season in Jacksonville, Oregon, was a memorable one for a certain Central Oregon band. The Leadbetter Band (Eric Leadbetter, Patrick Pearsall, Dylan Bernal) was originally set to perform earlier in the day on Aug. 17 as an opener on the side stage, but the opening act on…
Palmer’s Cafe: Revamped, Remodeled and Now Open
A 500-foot outdoor deck and Bloody Marys are a couple of the upgrades at the newly renovated Palmer’s Cafe. This longtime Bend favorite is back in action after a recent remodel. The cafe and adjacent Palmer’s Motel is owned by Bend native David Langmas, who now runs the cafe with his daughter Chloe. If you’ve been…
Go Globetrotting at Spider City Brewing
A Belgian grisette, a Polish wheat beer, a Germanic gose and a Baltic porter are all available to slake your thirst without so much as a passport. Of course, if your thirst preferences lie closer to home, there’s also no shortage of tasty American IPAs at Spider City Brewing. The name of the brewery may have…
Housing, Hospitals and Health: It’s All Connected
As much as we all wanted 2021 to look better than 2020, the resurgence of COVID-19 and the Delta variant has hit Oregon once again. It has not required entire sectors of our economy to be shut down, but our local hospital now has National Guard soldiers doing the work that hospital staffers might otherwise…
AIDing or Abetting?
In April of 2019 patrons of Arnold Irrigation District received a postcard in the mail informing them of a plan to pipe the district’s 13.2-mile canal and inviting them to comment on the project. The meeting passed with little buzz, and AID patron Mark Elling said that was the last patrons heard about it until…
