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Worthy Brewing’s Organic Farm โ–ถ [with video]

Add communal farming to the brewery’s list of cool side projects

Visitors to Worthy Brewing can’t help but notice the hopyard is looking a bit barren. It’s not that the land proved infertile. Quite the contrary; it’s being repurposed into a new organic farm, the latest venture for the Worthy Garden Club, the brewery’s nonprofit highlighting sustainable practices. The new farm “came on suddenly,” says Lisa […]

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Rookie Food Cart of the Year โ–ถ [with video]

NorthFresh Sushi has locals in Tumalo and beyond coming back for more

Jeff Berneski has a giant panda head stashed at his food cart in Tumalo, and when we visit, he’s insistent we let him snap a photo or two of him wearing it. Good thing the Source Weekly loves goofiness of that and other varietiesโ€”so much so that the panda head graces the cover of this […]

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Baking the Magic: The making of the Source Weekly’s 2021 Restaurant Guide cover โ–ถ [with video]

The creative force behind our cookie cover shows us how it got done

The Source Weekly’s 2021 Restaurant Guide is graced with a super-cool cover made from real-life cookies crafted by Just Around the Bend Cookies, a Bend-based small business. In this video, Kathie Reid-Bevington talks about how she made the magic happen. Thanks to Just Around the Bend Cookies for this fun and creative collaboration! WATCH: The […]

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Care for a Line Dance with Your Chicken?

Cross-Eyed Cricket Watering Hole opens in the former Maverick’s country bar

Back in the before-times, most would have thought nothing of sidling up to a crowded bar or squeezing in next to a total stranger for a Saturday-night dance party. These days, those are #goals to return to for almost any bar ownerโ€”not the least of whom are the owners of Cross-Eyed Cricket Watering Hole, who […]

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Women of the Year 2021 โ–ถ [With Video]

Stories of women doing great thingsโ€”and that includes our Woman of the Year, Community Hero, Young Hero and more. Meet these incredible change-makers in Central Oregon

A note from our editor: Last year, the Source Weeklyโ€”which has long had a Women’s Issue coinciding with International Women’s Dayโ€”joined forces with the Bend Chamber’s Women of the Year awards, for one giant event. Quite literally the night of the awards banquet, I arrived a little late due to the fact that I’d written […]

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Midtown Rising โ–ถ [With Video]

With Bend’s “Zoom Town” status and its ongoing population boom, its scene needed room to grow. Enter Midtown, rising slowly but surely—and with a vision

Some call it The Moat. Others, The Tracks. Others have less-flattering names for the act of moving from west Bend to east, doing so via only the handful of arterials that cross the city, over or under its railroad bridges, and under the Bend Parkway. Whatever you call it, the reasons to cross that moat […]

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A Place to Call Home โ–ถ [With Video]

Communal living project for veterans could serve as a model for solving the homeless crisis

Bend’s newest neighborhood won’t have a homeowners’ association or a lengthy list of bylaws. There won’t be any open houses or bidding wars among prospective homebuyers. What it will have is a collection of individuals who have served their country but have since fallen on challenging times.  Central Oregon Veterans Village is a chance for […]

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Noticias en Espaรฑol โ–ถ [con video]

Antes de la pandemia, la zona Centro de Oregon tenรญa una gran escasez de lugares para el cuidado infantil (guarderรญas). Ahora, con mucho menos espacios, grupos locales estรกn colaborando para disminuir el problema.

Como parte de sus metas de vitalidad econรณmica para el 2019-2021 – economic vitality goals for 2019-2021, el concejo municipal de la ciudad de Bend pidiรณ aumentar, por un 20%, el nรบmero de espacios disponibles para el cuidado infantil, en comparaciรณn con septiembre del 2019. Debido en parte a los retos relacionados con COVID-19, el […]

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