With support from OSU and the Central Oregon legislative delegation, OSU-Cascades is seeking $42 million in capital funding to remediate 24 acres of the former landfill and build a Student Health and Recreation Center. Students have been seeking the recreation center since 2017, when they began raising $20 million in student fees for the new […]
OSU-Cascades Seeks Funding for Student Health and Recreation Center
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Opposition to Senate Bill 1517-7
What is the Goal of SB 1517-7? On behalf of the hundreds of gyms, fitness clubs and exercise studios throughout Oregon, we express appreciaTon to Chair Prozanski, Vice Chair Thatcher, and Senators Broadman, McLane, Manning and Gelser Blouin for examining this issue once again in an a>empt to find an alternaTve compromise solution. In particular, […]
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Letters to the Editor, Week of March 5
Let’s not spring ahead It’s time to change clocks again. Is there anything more idiotic, more wasteful, more unnecessary? The Sun and the Earth could care less how we define time. Leave the clocks alone! —James Scott History repeats itself Seeing the same comments on social media about the attack last night as I heard 25 […]
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‘Much Ado About Nothing’
William Shakespeare wrote his romantic comedy, “Much Ado About Nothing,” in 1598. Since then, it’s undergone many adaptations, including a Meadow Sky Productions which is opening this month at the High Desert Music Hall in Redmond. “We’ve set the story in a different world than originally written, creating a fantasy world and setting inspired by […]
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Letters to the Editor, Week of Feb. 19
Kids Need Quality Education As a longtime classroom teacher and former union leader for educators, I want to unpack the Source’s Feb. 5 piece, “Oregon’s Education Workforce Climbed While Student Enrollment Slid.” Unfortunately, the headline is misleading, implying that schools are overstaffed. They are not. The numbers presented don’t account for the decades of prior […]
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Coffee: A Health Benefit or Detriment?
History has it that 15th century Sufis were among the first to brew coffee as a drink, discovering its wakening benefits for all-night devotional practices. Over the centuries, the practice spread to Europe and further west and is now by far the most popular drink worldwide. While it is loved for its caffeine content and ability […]
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Meet Central Oregon Symphony’s New Executive Director
Wearing many musical hats already, Dr. Travis Allen has recently also taken on the role of executive director of the Central Oregon Symphony Association. He is a cellist extraordinaire, professor of music history and theory at COCC, member of the Dove String Quartet and frequent performer with the Sunriver Music Festival. He is also the […]
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Channeling Willie to Shut Out the Chaos
“It’s extremely hard to look out at the world today, at our communities, and come to grips with the kind of darkness that is increasingly seeping into every single last corner of day-to-day life,” says local musician Joe Estrada. “And while there’s plenty we can all be doing within our individual capacities, it’s still hard […]
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Off The Radar
We’re still smack dab in the middle of that time of year when most of what’s getting released doesn’t have much cultural cachet (or a massive marketing budget) and so gets quietly released around the end of January or the top half of February…just somewhere in the first quarter of the year. I still spent […]
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Bend’s January Market Snapshot
The year 2025 and its unpredictable market are now comfortably in the rearview. With interest rates briefly reaching three-year lows, the real estate market must be returning to some semblance of normalcy… right? Let’s take a look at what the January stats are telling us about the first month of 2026. One important thing to […]