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Bend will have a new mayor at the start of 2023, with the election of Melanie Kebler to the position. Kebler, elected in 2022, first served for two years as a Bend City Councilor.

She is an attorney with a background as a prosecutor and victims’ rights advocate. A Bend High grad, she grew up on the east side of Bend and has always been interested in civic leadership, starting with being elected to the BSH Student Council.

Kebler is excited to lead Bend into the future. In this podcast we chat about her goals for the coming year, her thoughts on the outcome of the recent election, ideas around moving City Hall and creating a public town square and more. She takes her oath of office January 4, along with newly elected city councilors Ariel Méndez and Mike Riley.

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This article appears in Source Weekly December 29, 2022.

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LISTEN: A Chat with Bend’s New Mayor Melanie Kebler 🎧

by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon
December 29, 2022

<h1>LISTEN: A Chat with Bend’s New Mayor Melanie Kebler 🎧</h1> <p class="byline">by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />December 29, 2022</p> <p><span class="fdnDropCap">B</span>end will have a new mayor at the start of 2023, with the election of <a href="/bend/melanie-kebler-for-bend-mayor/Content?oid=17915509" target="_blank">Melanie Kebler</a> to the position. Kebler, elected in 2022, first served for two years as a Bend City Councilor. </p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full alignright alignright"><a href="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/bend_dont_break_podcast_-_melanie_kebler.webp"><img src="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/bend_dont_break_podcast_-_melanie_kebler.webp" alt="" class="wp-image-43813" /></a></figure> </p> <p>She is an attorney with a background as a prosecutor and victims’ rights advocate. A Bend High grad, she grew up on the east side of Bend and has always been interested in civic leadership, starting with being elected to the BSH Student Council.</p> <p>Kebler is excited to lead Bend into the future. In this podcast we chat about her goals for the coming year, her thoughts on the outcome of the recent election, ideas around moving City Hall and creating a public town square and more. She takes her <a href="https://www.bendoregon.gov/government/city-council/city-council-meeting-agendas-video" target="_blank">oath of office</a> January 4, along with newly elected city councilors Ariel Méndez and Mike Riley.</p> <p><b>LISTEN NOW: </b></p> <div class="wp-block-group newspack-embed-container align"> <div style="font-size: 10px;color: #cccccc;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-779383396" title="Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none">Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-779383396/a-chat-with-bends-new-mayor-melanie-kebler" title="A Chat with Bend&#x27;s New Mayor Melanie Kebler" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none">A Chat with Bend&#x27;s New Mayor Melanie Kebler</a></div> </p></div> <div class="wp-block-group fdn-after-article-related"> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Related Stories</h3> </p></div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/listen-a-chat-with-bends-new-mayor-melanie-kebler-18357183/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=43808&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/listen-a-chat-with-bends-new-mayor-melanie-kebler-18357183/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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