Cover Stories
Give the Gift of Food
From hot sauce to gourmet chocolates, Central Oregon has an abundance of food artisans and makers. Gift the foodie on your list with a lovely assortment of locally handcrafted food and drink in a gift basket, or give a single luxury food item, such as a box of buttery toffee from Holm Made Toffee Co.,…
Things Learned Along the Way
Local artist Teafly—who’s contributed both cover art and “Artwatch” columns to this newspaper countless times over the years—recently launched a Kickstarter for her first book of illustrations and personal wisdom, titled “Brain Clouds: Things I Learned Along the Way.” Teafly’s artistic style is youthful and fun, but the book, she says, was not exactly designed…
Gifts for those who like getting out
T he Bend Marketplace is your one-stop shop! All the items found on pages 10, 11 and 13 of this week’s issue can be found in the Bend Marketplace, Bend’s site for local shopping. If you see something you like, head over to bendmarketplace.com and find the item. (A word to the wise, however: Shop…
Experience the Outdoors
You have all the gear. Your bike, ski and kayak racks are all full, all year round. Heck, maybe you finally sprang for the Sprinter that seems increasingly to be part of the Bend starter kit. Whether that description fits you, or you’re just looking for something outside-the-box to bring to your loved ones this…
Guest Opinion: Central Oregonians Deserve Abortion Justice
We’re at a crisis point. A case that went before the U.S. Supreme Court this month could unravel the constitutional right to abortion. There is no “middle ground,” either: If the court allows Mississippi’s 15-week ban to stand, it will erase nearly 50 years of precedent and overturn Roe vs. Wade—leaving nearly half the people…
Source Weekly Update podcast 12/9/21 🎧
A plea in the Barry Washington, Jr. murder case, monitoring Bend’s sewers for the omicron variant and an effort to assess the impact of short-term rentals on home prices in Bend, all in this week’s podcast. Source Weekly – Bend, Oregon · Source Weekly Update Podcast 12/9/21
Deshaun Adderley Scholarship Recipients Announced
Members of the Father’s Group announced the recipients of the first Deshaun Adderley Scholarship on Thursday, awarding 16 students money in increments ranging from $100 to $1,000. The scholarship was created in honor of Adderley, who died by suicide in 2017 after being repeatedly bullied at Summit High School. Adderley’s death sparked a conversation about…
Street Outreach Teams to Grow
Deschutes County is adding three positions aimed at providing support for the unhoused population in Bend, La Pine, Redmond and Sisters. The Deschutes County Board of Commissioners approved the use of more than $1 million in funds received through the American Rescue Plan Act to fund three new behavioral health positions in the county. The…
Housing for Hire
Bend City Councilor Anthony Broadman requested that short term rental data that the City started collecting over the summer be paired with a conversation on policies that could be used if STRs are shown to exacerbate Central Oregon’s housing crisis. Broadman said he isn’t advocating for a specific policy yet, and any decision would have…
Cranston Pleads Not Guilty
Ian Cranston pleaded not guilty in Deschutes County court Dec. 7 to charges of second-degree murder, first and second-degree manslaughter, first degree assault and two counts of unlawful use of a deadly weapon in the Sept. 19 shooting of Barry Washington Jr. outside of The Capitol, a nightclub in downtown Bend. Deschutes County District Attorney…
The “Shoes” Protest Was About Something Not Happening in Bend. Is It a Frontload to a Bigger Fight?
Editor’s note: Updated with information from the Oregon Health Authority regarding current and proposed rules regarding COVID-19 in schools. See the addition at the bottom of this editorial. We get it. It’s been a long couple of years. We’re all getting pretty tired of wearing masks while lifting weights at the gym or wondering when…
Celebrate the upcoming winter solstice with a candlelit ski session
According to History.com, human beings may have been observing the winter solstice as early as the Neolithic period, around 10,200 BC. Stone Age people would hold several types of rituals at sacred sites in celebration of the changing seasonal cycle. Even today, modern humans still practice spiritual or celebratory rituals for the shortest day of…
Six Reviews for the Price of One
I want to talk about every single movie that comes out with you all, but there’s just not enough time or space to get into each one. Unless…I just go see everything I possibly can in a week and then jam them all together in one giant review like a weird cinematic chimera and just…
Box Set Gifts for the Music Lover
The deluxe album packages of 2021 were heavily weighted toward expanded reissues of notable individual albums. They make for fine Christmas gifts, so here are the sets that would top my shopping list. Deluxe Album Reissues George Harrison: “All Things Must Pass” Super Deluxe Edition/ John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band: “John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band” – These…
New Name, New Summer Lineup
Previously known as the Les Schwab Amphitheater, the biggest music venue in Bend has changed its name and is beefing up its summer playlist for 2022. The newly titled Hayden Homes Amphitheater still plans on exposing Oregonians to great bands and music, and the schedule for the upcoming summer shows speaks for itself. Here’s a…
The Third Act: The Race to Finish Last
My husband and I originally moved to Oregon to ranch, first north of Brothers and later along the Crooked River. One of the many things I treasured all those years was that staying fit wasn’t a separate activity scheduled into the workday or weekends, rather was part and parcel of every day—irrigating and calving in…
Letters to the Editor 12/9/21
Is it going to be a snowy Christmas? Will we get to ski sometime this year? The weather forecast, with its drops of white stuff included, seems to indicate yes, but us snow lovers will just have to wait and see. What is sure, however, is that we have an issue chock-full of ideas to…
Spork Pops Up at Kebaba
The good news: Spork, the beloved Newport Avenue eatery in Bend, is remodeling in order to expand its kitchen, dining room, patio and takeout spaces. The better news: After closing for a month to get the remodel underway, Spork has temporarily moved across the street. Throughout its remodel, Spork will be located in the space…
Double Up Food Bucksat Locavore
An incentive program shoppers have seen at outdoor farmers markets is now available at Central Oregon Locavore. The nonprofit indoor farmers market announced this week that it now accepts Double Up Food Bucks, a program available for those in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, usually known as SNAP. Shoppers with SNAP earn a $1 to…
Easy Rewriter, The Incredible Sulk
Easy Rewriter At a dinner, a woman asked how my husband and I met. He says he spotted me in the campus dining hall, deliberately bumped me and spilled my drink on my tray, and used getting me a refill to ask me out. This never happened. (We met in class, and he asked me…
Free Will Astrology—Week of December 9
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A fashion company called Tibi sells a silver mini dress that features thousands of sequins. It’s also available in gold. I wonder if the designers were inspired by poet Mark Doty’s line: “No such thing, the queen said, as too many sequins.” In my astrological estimation, the coming weeks will be…
Sticky Stocking Stuffers
Pre cannabis legalization, the concept of “too many choices” was a foreign one to most cannabis consumers. You bought from a dealer, or “Herbal Products Broker” and their selections were often limited to single digits, with delineations such as “the lime green one,” “the one with red hairs” or “that purple stuff.” A lack of…
Remodel for Selling
The value or sale price of a home is ultimately dictated by what a buyer is willing to pay and what a seller is willing to accept. Although sale prices will follow market trends, not all homes are created equal and prices will vary greatly between similar homes. This is largely dependent on the perceived…
