Coronavirus Q&A: Practical Guidance for the Pandemic
Can I spread COVID-19 after vaccination? What’s with the new strains of the virus in Bend? Get info on these and other common COVID questions.
Listen: Source Weekly Update 2/4 🎧
COVID Q&A with topics ranging from tips on how to not forget your mask to “we need indoor plumbing work done” to the new variants of the coronavirus in Bend. What should and shouldn’t you be doing to keep yourself safe? Find out in this week’s podcast! Source Weekly – Bend, Oregon · Source Weekly…
Listen: Oregon’s U.S. Senator Ron Wyden on Green Energy, Cannabis and Big Tech 🎧
For this week’s “Bend Don’t Break” podcast we talk with Oregon’s U.S. Senator Ron Wyden who has been representing the state in Washington, D.C. for forty years. As he begins his tenure as the chair of the Senate Finance Committee, Wyden discusses his plans for investment in renewable energy and a 21st Century Civilian Conservation…
Noticias: El consejo municipal de la ciudad de Bend trabaja en nuevos objetivos, extienden la orden de estado de emergencia
De acuerdo con una encuesta llevada a cabo en diciembre 2020, la vivienda económica y la congestión vehicular fueron los temas principales de la comunidad y se resumió en el comunicado de prensa de la ciudad de Bend del 21 de enero. Treinta y cuatro por ciento de las personas encuestadas dijeron que la vivienda…
Winter Wildlife Tracking
If you’re like many central Oregonians this winter, you’re spending a lot of time outside in the snow. Whether skiing, sledding or snowshoeing, taking the time to pause and observe wildlife tracks in the winter can be a great way to learn a little more about the wildlife with whom we share these snowy playgrounds.…
Exploring Oregon’s Outback One Step at a Time
The Oregon Desert Trail, better known as the ODT, is a 751.7-route that traverses eastern Oregon, connecting the Badlands Wilderness to Lake Owyhee State Park. The trail slips through dense sagebrush steppe and ancient juniper forests, across lava flows and through canyons incised deep into an old land. There’s wild and wilderness and plenty of…
Eating Well To Go
While recent times have prompted many to cook and eat more at-home meals, takeout food from local establishments is a nice way to change up the routine and support the community. Typically, January is a month for reset; New Year’s resolutions abound for cleaner living, more movement and healthier eating—and locally, there’s no shortage of…
Taking the Plunge: Bend’s Polar Plunge Goes Virtual
Ah… the annual Polar Plunge. A beloved winter tradition involving wacky costumes, fundraising and a storm of brave souls rushing into the frigid Deschutes River. We all know that the traditional is no longer expected and so the Bend area Polar Plunge will look a little different this year. Special Olympics Oregon is keeping the…
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Dishes Worth Dialing For ▶ [With Video]
This week, the Source Weekly’s Takeout Guide, offered in digital form all throughout the pandemic, went into print. Inside that print guide are these one-dish reviews of Dishes Worth Dialing your friendly local restaurant to order. Check ’em out,
More Locations Offering To-Go Cocktails
Several weeks ago, as to-go cocktails began to be a thing in Oregon, we published a very brief list of some of the places starting to offer to-go cocktails. We’ve updated the list to include some of the other places that have since come online with new and inventive ways to get their cocktails into…
Keeping the Cartwheels Coming
There aren’t many businesses that are immune to COVID-19’s impact. For some businesses, changes aren’t easily made. One of those places is Central Oregon Gymnastics Academy, the 23-year-old gym that, due to COVID-19, is now facing the reality that a permanent closure might be on the horizon. While COGA has received some federal and state…
Revenge is Always Ugly
I’m coming in hot to 2021 with a fat stack of movies I expected to see in a theater last year that are instead slowly and without fanfare being dribbled out to Video on Demand and streaming services. The irony is that with the brand-new VoD releases, the studios are trying to recoup as much…
South County Appeal
This week, our exploration of outlying cities in Central Oregon brings the focus to La Pine. Real estate is booming in Bend, which is being reflected in higher home sales prices and a growing population, prompting longtime locals and newcomers to seek reprieve in the surrounding towns. The appeal of La Pine is quite simple;…
Free Will Astrology—Week of January 28
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “We all want everything to be okay,” writes author David Levithan. “We don’t even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.” To that mediocre manifesto, I reply, okay. I accept that it’s true for many…
Ancestry Dot Con
Ancestry Dot Con I’m a single woman in my mid-30s with an older half brother I haven’t seen in 20 years. He started calling me several years ago, and we speak sporadically (always instigated by him). He’s married and refers to me as the aunt to his four children (whom I’ve never met). Recently, he…
Poetry Contest Winners
“The creative person is flexible; he is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are.” -Frank Goble “‘There is no use trying,” said Alice. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.’ ‘I daresay…
Letters to the Editor 1/28/21
Editor’s note: I find it very fitting that on the week we are putting out our annual Poetry Issue, a young poet is the talk of the nation. Amanda Gorman’s rousing inaugural poem was a balm we needed to inspire us and get us thinking not of despair, but about how we are, “a nation…
No, Deschutes Commissioners Should Not Be Partisan. In Oregon, ¾ of County Boards Aren’t.
In recent weeks, a conversation has been renewed about whether the Deschutes County Board of Commissioners races should be partisan. Deschutes County Commissioner Phil Chang, a Democrat who joined the board in 2021, believes they shouldn’t be—and we agree with him. Chang’s assertion that county commissioners should drop their party affiliation is not without precedent.…
Pearl’s Puzzle – Week of Jan. 28
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