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The City of Bend is on track to create new housing options to address the need for middle- income housing. The City’s goal is to promote more affordable home ownership and rental opportunities with a diversity of housing types and sizes. According to a 2016 Bend Housing Needs Analysis, the City anticipates the population to […]
Last August, on a clear, sunny day, a group of elected officials and health experts gathered at St. Charles Medical Center in Bend for a presentation on emergency services for youth experiencing a mental health crisis in Central Oregon. The information they left with was bleak. Emergency departments at all St. Charles hospitals in Central […]
Central Oregon Concert Guide Summer Outdoors & Activities Guide Ideas to plan an ideal summer outing: Bikes and Boats Down by the River Shut-In Summer Check out the digital issue below:
It’s been our pleasure and pride over the past 6+ years to put Central Oregon’s only cannabis publication out into the world—and this time is no different. It’s a joy to bring a little dose of canna-love to Source readers, all packaged up for the cannabis lover to read at their leisure. Inside this issue, […]
At the start of the pandemic, restaurants had to find new ways to serve customers without traditional indoor dining. Food service pivoted with outdoor seating, more carryout options and delivery. Now, after two tumultuous years, some restaurants and food carts are less than enthused to be a part of third-party delivery apps’ platforms. In October […]
Once every two weeks Reddit User TailorGlad3272 spends over five hours reporting the Bend City Council on the subreddit r/Bend, a forum where users share news, ask questions and discuss all things Bend. The meeting notes have been so well received that Glad’s now gone cross-platform, starting a Twitter account under their pseudonym and a […]
The Winter Olympics in Beijing, China start this week. Here’s a quick rundown of the local and Oregon athletes competing. Tommy Ford, Giant Slalom skier Coming back from a horrific injury is never easy. Tommy Ford, the Bend native who grew up skiing for the Mount Bachelor Sports Education Foundation, plans to come back on […]
The smell of fried garlic hit me as soon I opened the door. It is quite possibly the most intoxicating aroma on earth. Alas, I feared it meant Edna had not waited, and that made me sad. I was there to learn how she makes moqueca, a tomato-based seafood stew that’s ubiquitous along the Brazilian coast. The […]
While a lot of today’s craft beer focuses on the new new, there’s always been a thread in beer realizing that what’s old is new. When Monkless Belgian Ales opened in 2014, it was the first local brewery to focus on old, Belgian style ales. When Porter Brewing launched in 2018, it became the first […]
One of the things I enjoy about birds is watching them, the other is discussing them. Well, I guess I’d better include eating them as well. Before I came down with my present heart condition, my diet was completely different — meat was high on the menu and Col. Sanders’ fried chicken was at the […]
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