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Get your dancing shoes out from the back of the closet. These are all the shows we know about in Central Oregon this summer.

“Our primary goal is to provide our customers with the very best customer experience for their custom picture framing and digital service’s needs. It’s not about requiring proof of vaccination,” said Todd Dow, Operations Manager at High Desert Frameworks. “It is unfortunate that the State has taken the approach of placing the business in a position to be an enforcer.  Until the Oregon Health Authority and Oregon OSHA [Occupational Health and Safety Administration] provide m...

Know before buying Covenants, conditions and restrictions (CC&Rs) are generally not considered to be scintillating reading material. While its a laborious task, its a crucial part of the homebuying process when considering purchasing a home in a planned community. Planned development communities can come with many perks, such as neighborhood parks, trail systems, pools, tennis courts and clubhouses. With these amenities also come rules and regulations for the planned development. These are en...

Identity Politics, the "Big P," Israel in Gaza & Another dog lost in the canal at Smith Rock Editors note: Something—besides the obvious lifting of mask mandates for vaccinated individuals—happened this week that gave me and my staff a sense that life may be slowly returning to more of a normal pace. The Source Weeklys events calendar was, pre-COVID, nearly always the number-one visited page on our website, but over the past year, its slipped down in rank in favor of important news-you-can...

Ah, hard seltzer. In 2018, the Source Weekly went on a quest to find Zima, in an effort to bring back some of what was good in the 90s. In 2020, the Source pegged hard seltzer as the biggest emerging trend—one that would one day, soon, fall to the annals of pop-culture history. But now, in 2021, another year into this hard-ly drinking trend and some hard-seltzer makers have dropped the idea, leaving it to the likes of Bud Light and White Claw. Others, meanwhile, are pivoti...

Darris Hurst Northfresh Sushi Owner Jeff Burneski With The True Love Maki. Jeff Berneski has a giant panda head stashed at his food cart in Tumalo, and when we visit, hes insistent we let him snap a photo or two of him wearing it. Good thing the Source Weekly loves goofiness of that and other varieties—so much so that the panda head graces the cover of this w...

New High Desert Food & Farm Directory available, along with app, searchable directory BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Summer is coming, and local food is just around the corner!  Now it is even easier to find Central Oregon foods, visit farms, taste a new dinner from a food truck or breakfast at a nearby restaurant by using the Get a Taste phone app, using a NEW searchable website or reading the print directory.  th annual 2021 Food and Farm Directory this Wednesday - your go-to resource for local.  He...

Letters to the Editor 4/22/21  Homeless and Immigration, Should Old Bend’s Neighborhood Parking System Be Expanded?, Redmond Prepares for the Future of Weed and Be Ready to Talk More about the “Big P” Editors note: With the warm temperatures and the warnings about the potential for fires happening this week, its kinda hard to believe that its only April and not June in Central Oregon. Fortunately, no unplanned fires have emerged yet, and locals still have a short amount of time to para...

Why are you here in Central Oregon? Why is a small word with infinite layers

Listen: Surviving the Isolation and Anxiety of the Pandemic with Dr. Sabrina Hadeed-Duea ��  OSU professor and professional counselor recommends daily doses of the outdoors and intentional connections with friends, family and neighbors as the pandemic drags on… For this week’s episode of “Bend Don’t Break” we talk with Dr. Sabrina Hadeed-Duea, a Licensed Professional Counselor and adjunct professor at Oregon State University – Cascades. During this conversation Hadeed...