Last week’s Bend Venture Conference, a two-day event designed to vault promising startup companies into the realm of well-funded enterprises, sold out the Tower Theater in downtown Bend and sent winners home with more than $620,000 in investment awards, cash prizes, and services. Conference attendees enjoyed networking opportunities, educational seminars, and a keynote address by […]
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Help for the Helpers
Foster care nonprofit gets a new home
Over the last three years, Action Through Advocacy has been operating out of the homes of its volunteer organizers and more recently from a storage unit. The foster care support nonprofit recently rented an office space and its founder, Heidi Myers, says that now it will be easier to help foster parents get items they […]
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Naturalists Need You!
To help follow golden eagles
The Christmas Valley region has at least three Golden Eagles roaming around that are wearing radio transmitters, and one of them is from Alaska. The transmitter is difficult to see, unless you look for it. If the bird’s soaring overhead there will be several opportunities to observe that small “hump” on the eagle’s back, between […]
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High Desert Heroes
Celebrate a combined 75 years of Central Oregon conservation
Central Oregon would hardly be the place it is today were it not for the blood, sweat, and acumen of so many engaged residents willing to pull together. This year, the holy trinity of Central Oregon conservation groups are celebrating some pretty big anniversaries with events highlighting their many successes. Central Oregon Land Watch Central […]
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Buyers: Stay Competitive in a Seller’s Market
For most of the last year in Bend, the real estate market has favored sellers because the number of homes for sale has been low, with good homes often receiving multiple offers within a short time after being listed. And, while multiple offers are great for the sellers, this environment can put buyers in the […]
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Central Oregon Housing Market on the Rebound
It’s no secret that Central Oregon’s real estate market is making a sound recovery and sellers are reaping the benefits. Home prices are up for the 48th consecutive month, and nearly 10 percent higher than at this point in 2014. This upward trend, combined with the scarcity of inventory in the lower price range, makes […]
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Solstice Brewing Embraces Roots with Name Change to Ochoco Brewing
The Prineville-based brewery now formerly known as Solstice has never been shy about its roots. When it released its first beer back in 2012, the brewery reclaimed a not-uncommon slur for the city, calling it Prinetucky Pale. So it’s only fitting that the new name—Ochoco Brewing Company—honors the operation’s Crook County origins. The name also […]
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On the Bubble
New trends in brewing are reshaping the industry
Billy Beer was never very good, and it didn’t last on the market very long, but it may deserve a large share of credit for the contemporary boom of craft beer. Produced briefly in the late 1970s by Billy Carter, the oafish younger brother of then-President Jimmy Carter, the beer leveraged whatever national attention is […]
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What a Wild Ride It Has Been
Local rider conquers the world
“All goals start out as dreams, I suppose,” explains Bobby Mote, a professional rodeo rider. “If I’d told people when I started that I wanted to be where I am now, they might’ve laughed at me.” And where he is, a cowboy from the small Central Oregon town of Culver, is an impressive four-time World […]
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More Fires Follow Last Night’s Lightning
BLM Oregon Just because it’s raining, doesn’t mean there can’t be fires. According to the Central Oregon Interagency Dispatch Center, area fire crews had responded to 48 separate incidents as of this morning. Storms in Central Oregon started yesterday afternoon and continued through the night. The lightning display made for some great front porch beer […]