Julie Sabatier

Jan 20, 2025 | opb.org | Julie Sabatier |Noah Thomas

Jory Olson stands on Mt. Hood with his two Siberian cats, Lewis and Clark. It’s pretty common to see people including their dogs in outdoor recreation activities, but a cat? That’s a different story. Oregon Field Guide producer Noah Thomas recently met some cats who go with their people on all kinds of adventures in the great outdoors. He joins us to share their stories, and we hear from some Evergreen listeners with adventurous cats.

Dec 9, 2024 | opb.org | Julie Sabatier |Jane Hu

Tracy Kim Townsend rests in a seating area inside Project Circle on Oct. 23, 2024. Townsend co-founded the psilocybin service center and would like to see access to the drug expanded in Oregon. Oregon law allows psilocybin therapy in licensed service centers. But what if you’re too sick to go to one? Could a licensed psilocybin facilitator come to your home and provide therapeutic services for you there? Oregon law says no. But a group of facilitators are now fighting to change that.

Dec 2, 2024 | opb.org | Julie Sabatier |Kate McMahon

Grammy award winner Jon Cleary on the piano at the OK Theatre, Enterprise, Oregon, February 2023. The town of Enterprise, nestled in the northeastern corner of Oregon, has a population of about 2,000 people and it’s pretty isolated. (You have to go 60 miles to get to the nearest traffic light.) Ten years ago, Darrell and Christi Brann bought the 100-year-old OK Theatre in Enterprise and began reimagining it as a live music venue.

Nov 25, 2024 | opb.org | Julie Sabatier

“Around Us Watching,” a multimedia piece by Charlene Moody (Warm Springs), is part of the High Desert Museum's show, "Sensing Sasquatch."Central Oregon’s High Desert Museum’s exhibit, called “Sensing Sasquatch,” is interactive and multidimensional. It includes larger-than-life installations, a soundscape that evokes both the natural world and supernatural elements, and artwork that visitors are encouraged to touch and smell.

Nov 4, 2024 | opb.org | Julie Sabatier |Kami Horton

Perrin Thompson kisses her ballot for luck and does a little dance before dropping it into a drop site outside of the Multnomah County Elections Division in Portland, Ore., Nov. 8, 2022. That year, all three major candidates for Oregon governor were women. Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPBYour browser does not support the audio element. This election season, we’re looking back at the fight for women’s suffrage. When Oregon became a state, only white men could vote.