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Hello, readers! You are welcome to join me again on another summer skiing trip! This past Memorial Day weekend I met with brothers Todd Baribault and Allen Baribault. They flew into Portland from Santa Fe and Vermont respectively, where Todd and I were high school friends. We met up the following day with an agenda […]
The Airshow of the Cascades has been thrilling audiences with spectacular displays in the sky for a quarter of a century. This year’s show will feature two new acts. The Patriot Jet Team will have six roaring jets flying in formation, doing loops. Rick Allen, one of the organizers, says the last time a jet […]
On May 30, the Bend Police Department received a report that a Bend resident had threatened to execute a mass shooting in the area. The man, identified as 36-year-old Nathaniel Benjamin Wright, was known to own multiple firearms. Bend PD officers responded to Wright’s home on NE Waller Avenue and saw his white truck parked […]
A massive restoration project is expected to begin next year in the Deschutes National Forest outside Sisters and continue through the year 2040. The U.S. Forest Service signed the final decision to treat 25,000 acres in an area known as Green Ridge, 13 miles north of Sisters. The goal is to restore forest resiliency to disease […]
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 […]
Just east of downtown Bend lies the focal point of a long-planned revitalization aimed at transforming the widely undeveloped Bend Central District into a walkable, mixed-use community hub. With a vision that transforms the so-called “underutilized” area, advocates have been working with community members and the City of Bend to help invest in the central […]
The first Safe Parking site in Redmond is adding a playground for children experiencing homelessness. The nonprofit operating the Safe Parking program, Mountain View Community Development, held a groundbreaking on June 1, inviting community members to the parking lot of Mountain View Fellowship to see the site. “The vision here was, you know, while families […]
Tim Cheney took a morning walk where he lives in Juniper Ridge on June 2. Neighbors took a break from home-improvement projects to greet him and chat. Dogs, some fenced and others loose, barked and played while their owners swapped notes about the area’s influx of new residents. Monday morning, Juniper Ridge, better known as […]
Over the many decades Albert Lee has been strapping on an axe, he’s earned the nickname Mr. Telecaster. As one of England’s pre-eminent country-rock guitarists, Lee has been plugging in with his trusty Fender as a member of Emmylou Harris’ Hot Band, doing a five-year stint as a sideman for Eric Clapton and as a musical […]
If we tracked watercooler topics here in the Source newsroom, the story of the “Eugene Weekly” embezzlement would certainly be topping the chart. A certain reporter — when informed by an editor that the “Eugene Weekly” bookkeeper accused of embezzling more than $100,000 (closer to $300,000, considering unpaid debts) was released from an Ohio jail […]
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