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Home brewing has always been a thing, happening long before commercial production, craft brewing and all the other hoopla. With as many beer choices as we have in Central Oregon, you might think a beer lover wouldn’t need to brew at home—but they do, for multiple reasons. Home brewing can be a hobby, but it […]
Students at Bend Senior High participated in the nation-wide school walkout on March 14. Students spoke out for gun control and read the names of the students killed in the Parkland, Florida school shooting in February.
The morning following International Women’s Day, a small group of women gathered in a garage at Bridge 99 Brewery in Bend. I was expecting more pink, but I only spied a single pair of pink rubber boots on a tiny blonde lugging around 50-pound bags of malt. “We grow the barley—we plant it, we grow […]
W hat’s more Irish than leprechauns, top hats and green beer? Potatoes, of course. This St. Patrick’s Day, the High Desert Food & Farm Alliance and Casad Family Farms are getting in the Irish spirit and donating potatoes to NeighborImpact, which provides food to people in need in Central Oregon. According to a release from […]
The wildfire season may be over, but that doesn’t mean the Bend Fire Department isn’t keeping busy. Every year, firefighters run ice rescue drills to practice rescuing individuals and pets trapped after falling through thin ice. On Feb. 8, Bend Fire crews ran through ice rescue drills at Shevlin Pond in Bend. Battalion Chief Dave […]
“You wanna hit this?” “This” was a super sizer bomber: a blunt-sized joint with a line of rosin running through, turbo charged with the addition of some kief. I stared through the thick haze of smoke and thought about the question for an uncharacteristically long period. It wasn’t that I was too high, rather that […]
Out of 44 recipients of the prestigious Milken Educator Award this year, only one was from Oregon—and she happens to be a teacher at Bend High School. Unaware she was to be honored, representatives from the Milken Foundation presented Andria Lindsey with the award in a surprise all-school assembly Tuesday morning. As she stood with […]
By the time they were in high school, Josh Dirksen and Jason McAlister were making the trek to Bend for fresh powder whenever they had the chance. “Every day off we were driving to Mt. Bachelor and riding the mountain,” said Jason McAlister. “Sleeping in our car for the weekend—and then back to Eugene for […]
I remember the first time I saw a group of people pedaling like crazy on a Cycle Pub tour, waving at us and sipping beer from the mobile bar. When I first arrived in Bend, every other weekend seemed to include some sort of brew festival. The most popular restaurants were brew pubs, and chef […]
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