When music is your full-time job, making ends meet means it’s, “always sort of a patchwork quilt of touring and writing and recording, and they all sort of feed each other,” singer/songwriter Anna Tivel explains. “Being out in the world touring is a lot of taking in the way things move, and people and their […]
Anna Tivel’s Energized by Hope on 'Living Thing'
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10 Years of Adult Use Cannabis
This month marks 10 years since Oregon passed Measure 91, which created our Adult Use cannabis program. Since then, the state has grown, sold, taxed and consumed a tremendous amount of cannabis (including edibles, vaporizers and other canna products.) While there are valid arguments that in doing so the state decimated its long-running Oregon Medical […]
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May the Source Be With You: November Edition
For one such as me, who doesn’t partake in any winter activities other than drinking hot toddies and making the occasional snow angel, I mostly spend the cold months binging podcasts, movies and shows I missed in the summer. I know, I’m boring as hell, but ending up headfirst in a tree well is a […]
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The Plan for Juniper Ridge is Tenuous — and Temporary – at Best
We’ll at least hand this to the Deschutes County and City of Bend officials who have worked these last several months to come up with a plan for the houseless individuals camping at Juniper Ridge: They’re doing something. But is that something more of a stopgap than an actual solution? After several fires cropped up […]
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Central Oregon Gives
In honor of this week’s Give Guide, the Source team spent some time exploring the stories of a few local nonprofits. A School for Learning Ranch Skills: A new nonprofit in Central Oregon is building community one homesteading class at a time Homebuying Made Easy with Thistle & Nest: A fast-paced effort to help homebuyers […]
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Homebuying Made Easy with Thistle & Nest
A new nonprofit, helping homebuyers purchase affordable housing, has hit the ground running with about 460 homes in the pipeline in under two years. Created in March 2023, Thistle and Nest offers homeownership to people who qualify, while helping them build equity. Founder Amy Warren has been in the construction industry for 22 years. In 2014, […]
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It’s Time to Sow Your Seeds
Successfully growing plants from seed in Central Oregon is challenging. It’s also fun, inexpensive and deeply rewarding, once you learn the basics. Few people understand the struggles and rewards better than Lisa Sanco, the executive director of Worthy Environmental. “There’s nothing wrong with buying plant starts from nurseries,” she says, “but it’s more economical to […]
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A New Hideaway for North Bend
The Hideaway Tavern, a Bend and Redmond staple for great pub food and game-day-ready vibes, has added a new location on Bend’s north side. Hideaway Empire opened last week, on the corner of Boyd Acres Road and Empire Boulevard, in the former location for Backyard Pizza. Like the other locations for the Hideaway, comfy couches, […]
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A School For Learning Ranch Skills
Beth Covert leans over a large table covered by butcher paper and scoops a softball-sized chunk of soil from a bucket near her feet. With practiced hands, she adds tiny seeds to the dark grey earth, blending and molding them into the dirt mixture while explaining to a small group of rapt onlookers that today […]
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Freeland Spirits Opening Tasting Room in Bend Box Factory
The Box Factory in Bend is already a big draw for those looking to sip some of the spirits made in the region — and now it’s adding yet another location to the list. Portland’s woman-owned distillery, Freeland Spirits, announced this month that it’s opening a tasting room in the Box Factory, in the location […]