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Neighborhoods: Summit and Century West—Navigating the Way, West Side  With gorgeous new homes, new parks and a vibrant commercial zone, Summit West is the epitome of desirable Summit West—filled with high-end homes, many of "comfortable" size—is the fastest-growing zone on Bend's west side, or as some reference it, The Way Westside. Even though the blank spots are filling in with new homes and businesses, the area once considered the "west side wilderness" has many great features to explore. Bend is a bike town, and Summit West and the adjacent Century West neighborhoods are...

Growing and planting milkweed can help

Do you need a recovery day from your extreme winter sports habits [err addictions]? Are you exhausted from playing chicken with reckless drivers on the icy slip-n-slide that constitutes Cascade Lakes Highway this time of year? Have you decided enough is enough with the if-then-else flowchart required to secure a Mt. Bachelor parking pass? Can't even score a vehicle space at Dutchman Flat Sno-park without leaving town at an ungodly midnight hour, accepting the reality of an overflow parking ticket or circling the lot 100 times?  Image courtesy ...

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You're on the verge of breakthroughs. You're ready to explore frontiers, at least in your imagination. You're brave enough to go further and try harder than you've been able to before. With that in mind, here's a highly apropos idea from Cancerian novelist Tom Robbins. He writes, "If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill, take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edge of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic." (I might use the word "coax" or "nudge" instead of "force" ...

What's the difference and why it matters The real estate market has been a hot topic of conversation in Central Oregon for the last several years, and especially in the last year. There's no shortage of news stories about the market activity and particularly the growth in the median home prices around Central Oregon. When shopping for a home or reading and watching the news, a person will often hear discussion about the median and mean prices when talking about home prices in various areas of the region. This can and usually does result in confusion. Let me break it down.