Locally made toffee company, Holm Made Toffee, is having a good week. The company competed in the 19th annual Oregon Chocolate Festival in Ashland over the March 4-5 weekend and took home three awards. Holm Made won the “Best in Show” category and the “People’s Choice” award, and finally, took home the award for Best […]
Lizards are awesome, right? Colorful and interesting. Like snakes, but faster and with legs. Many of the resident lizards in Oregon’s high desert have interesting and evocative names, such as the long-nosed leopard lizard or desert horned lizard or western whiptail. And then there’s the one that might benefit from a PR review: the ubiquitous […]
Oregon is lifting the last of its mask mandates more than three years after COVID-19 swept across the country. Though masking hasn’t been required in public settings for about a year, the state required health care settings to continue to enforce masking rules for both patients and workers. Oregon Health Authority is rescinding required masking […]
Nicholas Ryan Preston-Cooper allegedly fired a high-powered rifle at the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday, March 2 around 9 pm. Dispatchers received a call reporting an armed man fired a round into the building, but the suspect wasn’t found on the scene at the time. Investigators spoke with the person who reported the shooting, […]
Editor’s Note: Deschutes County Commissioners backed out of the agreement to hire a contractor on City-owned land on Murphy Road shortly after this article is published. Click here for an update on this story. The City of Bend is postponing a planned sweep of Hunnell Road after Deschutes County signed onto a plan to contract […]
This doesn’t make me feel old at all, but with this article, I’ve officially written 1,000 stories for the Source Weekly, on and off since September of 2010. I’m glad my 1,000th story landed on the date of my monthly column, so I can just take a moment and say three thank yous. One to […]
While you were getting high, things happened. Here are some of them now. Fentanyl gummies: This is the story most of you may have already heard — a scary news item, but it looks to be fiction, which is scary as well. On Feb. 24, news outlets reported that fentanyl and heroin were found in […]
It’s Women’s History Month, so let’s continue the dialogue on embracing fearless and eternal feminine power through music and performance art. More importantly, let’s discuss the vitality and continued progression that affects our mind, body and the modern world when we honor and practice deep-rooted historical traditions in these two mediums, especially dance. I recently […]
I hear a lot of people talk about getting back to the way things were in the past — passionate and sexy. But, what if there isn’t necessarily something to get “back” to because it wasn’t there in the first place? Can a marriage last if everything else is fantastic, but has no sexual chemistry? Or […]
La ciudad de Bend está posponiendo un desalojo planeado sobre la calle Hunnel después que el Condado de Deschutes firmara un plan de contrato para un campamento controlado en la intersección de la calle Murphy Road y la carretera 97 en el sur de Bend. Bend le pidió al condado colaborar con ello durante la […]
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