Tyler Orton, the man behind this week’s feature photography, has taken some top-notch images of Central Oregon’s skate scene. Sadly, we had room for only two in our print issue. Here are the rest. Tyler Orton Tyler Orton Tyler Orton Tyler Orton Tyler Orton Tyler Orton “Skate photography was something I did just every once […]
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Skating in Bend is About to Get Better. Maybe.
For nearly a decade the skate community has been looking for a replacement for “Pondy” or Ponderosa Skatepark, which is, by all accounts, an antiquated and run-down community skate zone in Southeast Bend. Now that Bend’s skate community has, finally, gathered enough momentum and found a willing partner in Bend Park & Recreation District, it […]
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New Cafe Also Does Pour-Over Coffee
Palate, A Coffee Bar is at 643 NW Colorado Ave. Pour-over coffee, and other manual brew methods, are the new French press. Coffee nerds like it because it’s pure, controllable and sorta easy to replicate—even at home. You can read more about it in this week’s Culture section. There are a number of places in […]
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Bend Makes Another List, But Not a Good One
Yesterday PBS published a study* that found potentially unsafe levels of chromium-6, a known carcinogen, in the tap water of 31 of the 35 cities that were tested. Bend is on the list as nearly .78 parts per billion were found in Bend water provided by Avion Water. In 2011 California set a public-health goal […]
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New Bike Lanes Downtown: Community Meeting Tonight
Bend was awarded a Bicycling and Pedestrian improvement grant from the State of Oregon and is using the money to add bike lanes and pedestrian-friendly amenities to the Riverside Blvd. zone (the rode that runs past Drake Park, from Galveston, and into downtown). It should be cool but there are still some details to hammer […]
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Best Deal on Craigslist > Bend
This was posted today on Bend’s craigslist site. Best views in Central Oregon. Okay. In review $60,000 gets you: a store, a boat-rental business (10 row boats, three pedal boats, dock, and inventory), your own spot on Three Creeks Lake. Oh, and some of the best (and most secluded) views in Central Oregon. Porch overlooking […]
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Bend Oregon Song “Blowing Up”
Apparently this little gem of a song about partying last night after blasting through snowbanks, etc., is gaining traction on Power 94 and with fans in Bend, Oregon. Hear it for yourself.
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Oregonian Vigils and a Look Forward
Yesterday, Bend residents remembered the victims of recent shootings in Clackamas and Newtown, Connecticut with a candlelight vigil in Drake Park. There’s also a vigil in Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square today at 4:30 pm. Responses to the gun violence have been varied. From that of Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee (R): “We ask why there is […]
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Bend Climber Claims First Ascent in the Himalaya
Chris Wright on a climb last winter This past Friday Bend’s Chris Wright, a local climbing guide, and partner Geoff Unger topped on what they suspect is a first ascent on the Lunag Massif in the Khumbu Himal region of Southeast Asia.The pair were climbing fast and light in alpine style on the 5,777 meter […]
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Two of Bend’s Most Gruesome Unsolved Crimes: Beware crazies in the wilderness
Bad things happened at a cabin near little lava lake one cold winter.
The brutal butchering of three trappers at a desolate cabin in the dead of winter, 1924 and a psychotic axe attack on two college students in 1977 make up two of many examples of brutal unsolved mysteries across Central Oregon.
