Happy March, everyone! Since I continue to have several folks reach out with their questions, stories, opinions, and what have you, it seems like the right time to have another mailbag. For those who have not read this column before, every month or two I like to take some time out and answer and respond […]
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Posted inOutside
Ski for All with OAS
Oregon Adaptive Sports hosts a fundraiser to spread
outdoor accessibility awareness
Riders of all abilities will join together to take on the Summit Games at the sixth annual Ski for All on Saturday, March 18. This event is hosted by Oregon Adaptive Sports as one of its major fundraisers. OAS is an adaptive sports organization that provides access to life-changing outdoor experiences for people with disabilities. […]
Posted inMusic
Adventure Meets Art Through Film
Discover Your Forest hosts Backcountry Film Festival in Bend, Sunriver and Sisters to fundraise for youth education
Storytelling takes many shapes and forms, and this weekend, it’s through film. The Backcountry Film Festival is coming to Central Oregon as Discover Your Forest’s major fundraiser—Bend on Thursday, Sunriver on Saturday and Sisters on Sunday. Discover Your Forest is a local nonprofit dedicated to promoting discovery of the Deschutes and Ochoco National Forests and […]
Posted inCulture
Horoscope Week of March 9, 2023
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A financial advisor once told me I could adopt one of three approaches to running my business: 1. Ignore change; 2. always struggle with change, half-immobilized by mixed feelings about whether to change or stay pat; 3. learn to love and thrive on change. The advisor said that if I chose […]
Posted inOpinion
Letters to the Editor 03/09/2023
No Way Out Thousands of residents in the Boyd Acres Neighborhood are in danger if an evacuation is needed. Those living in the area bounded by the railroad tracks on the west, Cooley Road on the North, NE 18th Street on the east and Empire Avenue on the south are in trouble. And the city […]
Posted inFood & Drink
Cuban Kitchen Reopens
Bend’s first Cuban restaurant is getting another run
Cuban Kitchen, which opened in 2018 but closed down during the pandemic, has opened a new location along NE Third Street in Bend, in the former Szechuan Restaurant location. Like its past iteration that was located off of Century Drive, the new Cuban Kitchen offers hot Cuban-style pressed sandwiches made on a plancha, or flat […]
Posted inFood & Drink
Holm Made Toffee Wins Big at Oregon Chocolate Festival
Locally made award winning chocolates
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 […]
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An Awesome Lizard
Venture into the high desert to see side-blotched lizards strut and hunt
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 […]
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Last Mask Mandate Lifted
More than three years after COVID was detected in the U.S., and a year after general masking mandates were lifted, health care settings will no longer require masks by April 3
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 […]
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Man Shoots Sheriff’s Office
Cops say suspect was seeking confrontation with law enforcement after his father was arrested for allegedly attempting to lure a minor for sexual conduct
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, […]