Breaking: La Pine Student Arrested After Alleged School Threat
The Deschutes County Sheriff’s office says they’ve arrested a La Pine High School student today after an alleged threat to the “safety of students at the school.” According to a release issued this afternoon, a student at the school approached the School Resource Officer this morning to tell the officer about the alleged threat. Cops…
Where the Source is Headed this Weekend
Portland-based musician Haley Heynderickx is playing a sold out show at Mississippi Studios in the Rose City Thursday night, after releasing her much-anticipated debut album. After that, she’s headed to Bend to perform at the World Muse conference on Saturday. We’ll be there to chat live onstage with Heynderickx after her performance at the Tower Theatre at…
Herbal Goddess teaches spring tonics
Holly Hutton, a clinical herbalist and owner of Herbal Goddess Medicinals, is teaching Spring Tonic Herbs through Central Oregon Locavore. Back in the day, at the hint of spring, people would eat bitters to clear out those winter cobwebs after a stationary season of eating rich foods. If you’ve been a bit of a couch…
Proposed Apartment Building Draws Ire
A proposed housing project near the Bend Park & Recreation Pavilion has neighbors in Bend’s River West neighborhood concerned about parking and congestion—especially in the summer when the Les Schwab Amphitheater concerts pack the area with extra cars. This Thursday, March 1, representatives of the Seattle-based Evergreen Housing Development Group are hosting a meeting for public…
TCOs get knock out punch
This Wednesday, the Bend City Council—even after hearing from numerous people in a packed meeting against the ordinance change—decided to limit the number of temporary change of occupancy permits any one location could have to three per year. The resolution passed by a single vote, with Mayor Casey Roats casting the deciding one. Councilors Sally…
Breaking: Cops Arrest Teen Suspect After School Shooting Threat
Bend Police say they’ve arrested a teenager in connection with alleged threats made toward Bend High School. According to a release from Bend PD today, officers arrested 16-year-old Zachariah James Mello Johnson Wednesday, after an investigation in which officers say Johnson had been contemplating a shooting at Bend High. During the investigation, officers say they…
News Update: New Speed Zones
Pay attention to new reduced speeds this month. O regon’s roads are on average slower than most states, but not the slowest. Speed limits travel a wide spectrum. As the saying goes, “everything’s bigger in Texas,” and this extends to speed limits which cap at 85 mph. Alaska has the slowest, with a top speed…
Free Will Astrology week of Feb. 22
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In her novel *The Round House,* writer Louise Erdrich reminisces about how hard it was, earlier in her life, to yank out the trees whose roots had grown into the foundation of her family’s house. “How funny, strange, that a thing can grow so powerful even when planted in the wrong…
Letters to the Editor
The Testicle Testimonies, by Dr. S. Oliver Bowman Balls, nuts, family jewels, cojones, how many other names are there for the male anatomy responsible for reproduction? Raise your hand if you’ve ever been told to “grow a pair,” heard someone say “she’s got a pair” (balls not boobs), or known someone like Caitlyn Jenner who…
Backpacker turns bad meal into a business
Several years ago, Julie Mosier went on a solo backpacking trip to the Three Sisters Wilderness, bringing along off-the-shelf backpacking food. As she was looking over Moraine Lake eating her meal, she thought, “This is not good.” That disappointment inspired her to make backpacking meals delicious. She started experimenting by cooking meals the way she…
Coffee, Barley & Wild
It’s wintry outside again (just in time for the end of February!), and as if on cue, breweries across the state of Oregon are preparing their offerings for the rest of the season and beyond. Given that it’s the darkest time of the year, thick concoctions from barrels dominate the scene—but take heart, for it’ll…
If Allowed, Raccoons Will Stay
Our common variety raccoon, usually found near water, always mooching, is truly a wonder. Raccoons can get by on just about anything edible left out on the back porch, and once they’ve found a food source, they’re reluctant to change their habits. Feeding mule deer is a very bad habit, but feeding raccoons is a…
Is it the “Year of The Woman” Again?
Maybe it’s being sick of misogyny. Maybe it’s putting on a magenta hat and marching. Maybe, just maybe, it’s the rhetoric spewed by our current Commander in Chief. Whatever it is, a record number of women are running for public office this year. According to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University,…
Don’t Tie TCOs to a Random “Magic Number”
How many barbecues does the average Bend household host each year? Maybe three or four? And how about a birthday party, or another milestone, like an anniversary? One or two, perhaps? Seems reasonable that you might mark that many special events in a year’s time. Now imagine you want to hold those events in your…
Wild Women of the Water
Back in 2003, Delores Marsh, with the prodding of then-President of Central Oregon Flyfishers, Dan Driskill, started a women’s-only fly fishing group, now named the Wild Women of the Water. The original group was only three members, but has grown to 60 strong in its 15-year existence. “It became an idea in early 2003 and…
90th Academy Award Predictions
I’m not a betting man, but if I were, the Oscars are the only thing I’d feel comfortable making predictions about. There are always the things that should win because they’re heads and shoulders above the rest of the nominees, but they’re usually defeated by the things that will win either because of popularity or…
Threats of Violence at Bend Schools
Bend Senior High School has joined the growing list of Bend-La Pine schools recently put on alert due to threats of possible violence. On Monday, BLP Schools sent Lava Bear parents a letter, alerting them to increased police presence in response to a conversation with a student who allegedly overheard two other students talking about…
Cannabis Summit Inhales Oregon’s Plethora of Pot
On Feb. 2, the U.S. Attorney for Oregon, Billy “Stop calling me Lando” Williams held a “Marijuana Summit” and invited Gov. Kate Brown, law enforcement, the Internal Revenue Service, regulatory agencies and industry professionals to attend. (The press wasn’t allowed, because fake news, or democracy thrives in darkness, or something.) Major props to Williams for…
Haunting Accident
What do dreams mean? I was dumped 10 months ago. I couldn’t stop thinking about him. Now I barely do, but last night, I dreamed I broke in to his apartment, found him in bed with this gorgeous girl, and punched her in the face. Does this mean I’m not over him? —Wanna Start Dating…
Blast from the Bordello
Born in the Ukraine, Eugene Hutz formed bands there before coming to the United States, creating a distinctive global music sound with his band, Gogol Bordello. The musician has also acted in movies and even lived in Brazil. Not surprisingly, Hutz has been encouraged to retell his story in a memoir—and has tried and failed…
Jm Brodrick: Mastering a life of art
It comes as no surprise that Jm Brodrick listens to German opera when she paints. Her paintings, much like opera, are masterful creations revealing the essence of her subjects, using traditional techniques that take years to develop. It’s technique you may not understand, but technique that you feel, that you understand without words. When you…
Carol Delmonico
Supporting humans to change their inner and outer lives to create a world that works for all “The journal ended up coming about because this summer during the fires, you know, it was an intense year, 2017, for so many reasons, and during the fires I made this choice to stay in Bend.” If you’ve…
Garden Betty Moves to Bend
You never know where life will take you. Linda Ly had no idea moving into a cute 1920s bungalow on a quarter acre in the South Bay of Los Angeles in 2010 would turn her into a cookbook author. When Ly arrived there in summer, she said, “It was bursting with tons of fruits and…
The Backdoor Revolution: The Book
As last week’s feature story in the Source highlighted, many people in Bend are adding accessory dwelling units to their properties. The process typically involves the addition of a new structure, conversion of a basement to an apartment, converting a garage into living space or adding living space on top of an existing garage. Housing…
Lost Virginity
Playwright Cricket Daniel loves to tell the story of how she conceived her newest play, “The Lost Virginity Tour,” in which four women in a baking club set out on a road trip to revisit the sites of their first intimate encounters. “I was peddling my Christmas play last year,” Daniel told the Source Weekly,…
Women’s Issue 2018
Women of the Year: In Her Own Words The Source’s Women of the Year share their thoughts on whether we should have a “Year of the Woman,” women they want to emulate and things they wish you knew about their work Wendy Ayala Immigrant rights advocate, DACA recipient “I was born in Mexico City, and…
Bridge Ban Still Alive
A contentious bill that would effectively ban a bridge over the portion of the Deschutes River that holds a State Scenic Waterway designation has passed its first test in the Oregon Legislature. The bill is now in the hands of the Joint Ways and Means Committee for a financial impact evaluation. The House Agriculture and Natural…
New Principal for Summit High
Summit High School will officially have a new principal starting July 1. Superintendent of Bend-La Pine Schools, Shay Mikalson, announced Wednesday that Michael McDonald, currently assistant principal at Summit, will take on the new role. Summit’s current principal, Alice De Wittie, announced in October that she would be leaving the district at the end of…
