Webfoot Painting to Donate $5,000 Worth of Painting Services to Family or Nonprofit in Need; Requests Recommendations from the Community Webfoot Painting Co., a leading residential painting company serving Central Oregon, announces its 2nd Annual $5,000 Painting Charity Giveaway. The Bend-based company will select one recipient in the Bend/Redmond area … Continue reading
Allyson’s Kitchen in the Old Mill District is closing this week; they just posted the release on their site and Facebook today. Allyson’s Kitchen will be closing its Bend store location as of the end of business on Friday, December 31, citing repercussions from the recession and debt from the … Continue reading
It’s kind of puzzling how there’s news of three new breweries starting up in the next few months, and then the Bulletin reports today that WineStyles is closing as of October 15th. The owners of Bend’s WineStyles, which offered wine tastings and sold bottled wines, are closing the store Oct. … Continue reading
I missed this the first time around (about three weeks ago or so), but Big Lots opened up on the Eastside in the old Linens ‘N Things location (next to Old Navy). They’re one of those closeout/liquidator/wholesale stores that offer lots of stuff for (relatively) cheap; likely a store to … Continue reading
The Subway restaurant that has been open downtown for over a year and half has officially closed its doors, the Bulletin reports. The Subway Sandwiches location that opened in downtown Bend in January 2009 closed Wednesday night. Owner Chris Griffin is moving the equipment to a new Subway location he … Continue reading
Riley’s Market is the lone grocery store/deli over in NorthWest Crossing, and will be closing after this Saturday (the end of July). It’s in today’s Bulletin. Kacy Logeais, who opened the store in September 2007 with her husband, Shain, said part of the closure is related to debt on the … Continue reading
I wrote last week about some of the new(er) stores I found out about downtown(ish), and promised more. Here are a few more: Looney Bean Coffee: A (chain?) coffee shop that took over the old Balay Coffee location at 961 Brooks Street, offset just behind the Pine Tavern. I have … Continue reading
I spent quite a bit of time down at SummerFest this past weekend, helping out a friend who had a booth in the Souk section, and wandered around downtown a bit, seeing some of the new shops and businesses I didn’t know about. I used to work downtown, but haven’t … Continue reading
It’s been awhile since I blogged about Riverside Market, down in Bend’s “old town” part of downtown. Back then (2007) they didn’t have a web presence, but they do now: both a website and a Facebook page. Which is to be expected, I guess. Especially the Facebook page.
Over on EDCO’s website they’ve pinged some news about local companies RuffWear and G5 Search Marketing: Outside magazine names G5 Search Marketing and Ruff Wear to 50 “Best Places to Work” list in the U.S. Snag the May issue of Outside Magazine (available on newsstands April 20) to check out … Continue reading