It’s 9 a.m. and Sage Clegg is already worried about where her water is going to come from. She’s worried because she’s in the Central Oregon desert, it’s hot and, later in the day, she plans to walk across an extended section of dusty, exposed flats. The day before, at Sand Springs, she enjoyed refreshingly […]
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Horse Trading for Golf Courses
Is local development threatening land use plans?
Tom McCall is a hero. In 1967, when a single developer in Cannon Beach threatened the state’s longstanding law that the “public owns the beaches,” the then-governor cowboyed up two helicopters and flew to the disputed tract of land. His bravado stirred public sentiment—and set in place the Oregon Beach Bill, which declares all beaches […]
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Rancher’s Delight
Imperial Ranch shares a yarn of a history
An hour and 40 minutes into the cracked high desert northeast of Bend, eight miles past the barely recognizable “town” of Antelope, sits the Imperial Stock Ranch, surrounded by chapped canyon landscape, rife with tumbleweeds. A century ago, this was a bustling center of commerce. At its core was Imperial Stock Ranch, established in 1871 […]
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Get Sassy!
Making the most of a four-day Sasquatch! weekend
When this article hits newsstands, the Pacific Northwest’s premier camping music festival will be a mere nine days away. That’s a realization that can cause equal parts panic and excitement. However, some of the preparation angst can be settled by putting the below guide to use. Must see Unless you see these bands, you truly […]
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Where the Rubber Meets the Road
May 21 election asks voters to put their money where their mouths are
On it’s face, it’s a pretty quiet little election. Not many candidates (see our Boot on the opposite page), and no hot button measures. But though it may be humble, the May 21 election is hard working. Two major funding initiatives, the 911 levy and the school district bond, test our willingness to pay for […]
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Music to Their Ears
Council fine-tunes noise ordinance
After a bumper sticker and social media campaign, advocates for live music in Bend finally got scored a victory at a City Council meeting last Wednesday. For the past several months, musicians and live music venue owners have petitioned the council to change several key pieces of a new noise ordinance passed last July. The […]
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Werewolves in La Pine
Red Moon: As Smart as it is suspenseful
While readers in the other 49 states certainly should enjoy Benjamin Percy’s terse, wryly humorous and wonderfully suspenseful Red Moon, reading the story about werewolves and resistance movements is particularly titillating for Oregonians. Percy was raised in Tumalo and, with precise observations, draws out both the physical and psychological landscape of the region. Aside from […]
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Clucking Awesome
Day tour shows off Bend’s coop culture
At age 4, Sara Yellich saw her first farm animal slaughtered for food. Living on a 40-acre farm in Minnesota, she and her younger sisters stumbled upon their neighbor, axe in hand, slitting the throats of a flock of turkeys and letting them run themselves around the yard until they bled out. But the scene—like […]
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Lawmakers Back Medical Marijuana Again
Could pot be legal by summer?
The first time Crohn's Disease landed Jeff (not his real name) in the hospital, he was a freshman in high school. The next two days were a churn of vomiting and intense stomach cramping; eventually doctors and nurses inserted a flexible straw through his nose to purge stomach acids. “I remember thinking,” Jeff said, “whatever […]
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Diving For Cantaloupe
Korean War orphan to Mt. Bachelor king
John Gannon is a slight man, thin and a little bowlegged. The front and sides of his thick dark hair are streaked with grey, but the Korean's relatively creaseless face and quick smile make him appear much younger than his claimed 64 years. “Claimed,” because Gannon—whose journey from war-torn Korea to the United States is […]
