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Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree at Smith Rock Records

Santa loves a physical media comeback. Trust us, your teen will want a CD in their stocking

Cassette tapes, vinyl, CDs โ€” oh my! Sure, we could just text a Spotify link to share our favorite song or album in this day-n’-age, but I’m sure I’m not the only one in this town who remembers that one record that one person gave you that one time as a gift โ€” that moment […]

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Poco personal de enfermeros y enfermeros abrumados

Hay poco personal de enfermeros, estรกn trabajando mรกs de la cuenta y estรกn agotados, segรบn una encuesta llevada a cabo por la Asociaciรณn de Enfermeras de Oregon (ONA por sus siglas en inglรฉs). Menos del 1% de los enfermeros encuestados dijeron que su unidad siempre cuenta con el personal necesario, la mitad de ellos dicen […]

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Crafty Group Creates Yarn Art for Gifts, and Joy

With between one and 70 years of experience, local group has 200 years of knitting under its belt

To any passerby, the needle’s flick and the hook’s soft swing might not look like anything special. But to this group of yarn workers, it’s a meditationโ€”a type of metamorphosis that is only understood by picking up needles and giving it a go. Every Tuesday morning inside Bend coffee shop Spoken Moto, a group of […]

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Go Here: Illuminating the Deschutes with Holiday Spirit

Tumalo Creek Holiday Lights Paddle Parade takes over the water this weekend

Uniting the outdoor, active spirit of Bend with holiday cheer, the Tumalo Creek Holiday Lights Paddle Parade will brighten the water with battery-powered and solar-powered holiday lights, Christmas music and festive energy. Decked-out canoes, kayaks and paddle boats will parade up the Deschutes this Friday, Dec. 9 and are invited back to Tumalo Creek for […]

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Gung Ho: Goo Goo Dolls Headed Back to Bend

Hayden Homes Amphitheater announces its second show for next season, with O.A.R. joining

Goo Goo Dolls Headed Back to Bend Nineties darlings the Goo Goo Dolls must have had a good time when the band played the Hayden Homes Amphitheater back in July, because in 2023, the band will make its only Oregon summer show appearance right back here in Bend. HHA announced made its second concert announcement […]

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Horoscope Week of December 8, 2022

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I applaud your expansive curiosity. I admire your yearning to learn more and more about our mysterious world as you add to your understanding of how the game of life works. Your greed for interesting experiences is good greed! It is one of your most beautiful qualities. But now and then, […]

Posted inOpinion

Letters to the Editor 12/08/2022

RE: Concealed Carry Laws in Oregon Need to Change. Opinion, 12/1 Your editorial on concealed carry laws is spot on. There are music venues, bars and other businesses in Austin that post signs telling patrons that they cannot bring their guns inside, concealed carry permit or not. That’s deep in the heart of Texas, folks. […]

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WestSide Taco Reopens

Revamped toy hauler RV saves the day!

WestSide Taco Co. has reopened in Redmond, following a fire that closed its doors in early October. The popular food cart, which has won Best Food Cart and Best Lunch in Redmond numerous times in the Source Weekly’s Best of Central Oregon readers’ poll, has been cobbling together some service using its catering equipment, but […]

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Drink Winter Beers, Help the Bend Food Project

A fundraiser for the Oregon Brewers Guild, event organizers ask participants to bring non-perishable food items

Like beer? Like drinking beer outside with friends? Then an upcoming event benefitting the Bend Food Project may be right up your alley. The Central Oregon Winter Beer Festival happens Saturday, Dec. 17 in the parking lot of GoodLife Brewing and the Century Center, on Bend’s west side. A fundraiser for the Oregon Brewers Guild, […]

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