Zach Koepke was seven years old the first time the cops were called on him for skateboarding in Bend. At the time, Koepke (now 22) with his shaggy blond hair and outfitted in full pads, was pushing around in front of his Elk Meadow Elementary School; it seemed like a fun place to skate. It […]
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Supreme Court Reluctant…WTF!!
Today, the US Supreme Court is hearing arguments over whether California’s gay marriage ban is constitutional. The Chicago Tribune just reported SEVERELY TROUBLING news: The Supreme Court signaled reluctance on Tuesday to rule broadly on the question of the right to marriage for gays and lesbians as the justices heard arguments on same-sex marriage for […]
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Skating in Bend is About to Get Better. Maybe.
For nearly a decade the skate community has been looking for a replacement for “Pondy” or Ponderosa Skatepark, which is, by all accounts, an antiquated and run-down community skate zone in Southeast Bend. Now that Bend’s skate community has, finally, gathered enough momentum and found a willing partner in Bend Park & Recreation District, it […]
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An update on Bend’s bike scene
Bend commits to bike lane infrastructure The city of Bend is starting to take bike lanes seriously. Last Thursday I caught up with Commute Options’ Brian Potwin at a community forum for the recently approved Riverside/Franklin bike/pedestrian project at City Hall. Below are the quick hits from the forum and a look forward. The long-term […]
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COTA Work Party at Phil’s on Saturday
Ruts=not awesome. Yo. So remember when we told you riding at Phil’s was a bad idea because it’s still super soft out there and you’ll leave ruts that will remain all season? Some misdirected souls have continued to do so. This Saturday COTA is hosting a work party to repair the damage. They’ll provide snack […]
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New Cafe Also Does Pour-Over Coffee
Palate, A Coffee Bar is at 643 NW Colorado Ave. Pour-over coffee, and other manual brew methods, are the new French press. Coffee nerds like it because it’s pure, controllable and sorta easy to replicate—even at home. You can read more about it in this week’s Culture section. There are a number of places in […]
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Bend’s Laurenne Ross Crushing Alpine World Cup Circuit
In early March, Bend’s Laurenne Ross took second in a World Cup downhill race in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany—her first ever World Cup podium! Crushing!This week the 24-year-old shredder is in Lenzerheide, Switzerland at the World Cup Finals. Races were canceled yesterday because of fog, but were expected to continue to today. An update from the US […]
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Pacific Power Says Dam is “Not Very” Important to Company
Yesterday’s MPMB powwow. During Wednesday’s Mirror Pond Management Board meeting Pacific Power rep. Angela Jacobson Price was asked “how important is the dam to your company?”“Not very,” she said. Price went on to call the Newport Avenue dam, the 100-year-old structure which impounds the Deschutes River at Drake Park, “a small asset” and said it […]
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Bend Makes Another List, But Not a Good One
Yesterday PBS published a study* that found potentially unsafe levels of chromium-6, a known carcinogen, in the tap water of 31 of the 35 cities that were tested. Bend is on the list as nearly .78 parts per billion were found in Bend water provided by Avion Water. In 2011 California set a public-health goal […]
