David Jasper

Most of my friends are skateboarders. Over the past year, a few of them have left Bend. Skaters are lucky because they make fast friends with one another, even at

Central Oregon is chockablock with evidence of its volcanic origins. It’s kind of hard to ignore said evidence given how much of it protrudes in the form of mountains to

Deschutes Public Library system announced the choices for the 2025 iteration of A Novel Idea … Read Together, the library's longstanding annual community-wide read.

My dad had a strong sense of right and wrong, as well as a penchant for being a do-gooder, which is probably why he became a firefighter.

On Monday, Nov. 11, at their first weekly rehearsal after Election Day, Christian Clark, artistic director and conductor of the 75-voice Central Oregon Mastersingers spoke directly to the choir about

The news of Bend’s googly eyes on public art went viral last weekend, in case you were snoozing.

The Police were among the bands I really dug as a teen. I came to appreciate them more as I got older, after they had broken up. On their early

My daughter Lilly, home from college for the winter break, took advantage of last week’s break in winter weather to check out Benham Falls.

Even before the abrupt demolition of the 1,400-seat Bend High School auditorium last summer due to failing roof supports, a movement was afoot to

While I wear the mantle of optimism, deep down I am a cynic. I am losing faith in the direction the human race is going, but at the same time, there's