The Mirror Pond Ad-Hoc Committee unveiled its Mirror Pond and Downtown Redevelopment Concept Friday afternoon to a packed room in the Bend Park and Rec District office. The proposal goes beyond addressing the failing Newport Dam and the local landmark that is Mirror Pond, and offers a vision for redeveloping the downtown area—both to better […]
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D&D Makes Best Bars Outside of Portland List
It’s almost 5 pm on Friday…you know what that means? Beers. And while the oldest bar in Bend may be well known by locals, we want to congratulate the D&D for making Thrillist.com‘s list of the Best Bars Outside Portland! Check out the full list here. Here’s what Thrillist had to say about the good ‘ol fashioned D: […]
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Skin Wars Finale with Local Painter Natalie Fletcher TONIGHT!
Local body painter Natalie Fletcher appears int he finale of Skin Wars tonight on GSN. 6 pm PST. Tune in and cheer for her as she competes against the two other finalists for prize of $100,000 in front of judges Ru Paul (OMG YES! That Ru Paul!), Rebecca Romijn (OMG Mystique!) and body painting icons Craig Tracy […]
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Mark Capell Says He’ll Run for a Third City Council Term
Mark Capell announced today that he will run for a third term on the Bend City Council. He was first elected to council in 2006 and made headlines in 2012 when he bucked tradition and publicly declared his interested in serving as mayor. Capell currently serves as chair of the Bend Metropolitan Planning Organization and the Bend Urban Renewal Agency and is […]
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City Water and Sewer Rates Will Increase in October
City Council voted 4-3 tonight to increase water and sewer rates by 5 and 9 percent effective October 1. The rates were anticipated to increase as of July 1, but Mayor Jim Clinton and Councilors Sally Russell, Doug Knight, and Jodie Barram expressed concerns about hitting ratepayers with the increase before the October 15 end of irrigation […]
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OLD TIMERS: The 1940s
In the 1940s, Bend was abuzz with military activity thanks to nearby Fort Abbot (now Sunriver), the Redmond airbase, and military maneuvers staged on the high desert. Despite all the commotion, it was still a small town, with few paved roads and no traffic lights. Shirley Ray, 87, recalls a time when every face was […]
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OLD TIMERS: Bend Historical Timeline
Bend Historical Timeline 1920s- Population: 5,415 June 1920- First airplane crosses Cascades March 1922- St. Charles opens on “water tank hill” July 1922- First car drives up Pilot Butte May 1928- Frank T. Johns, national leader of the Socialist Party and candidate for president, drowns in Mirror Pond in attempt to save drowning boy April […]
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OLD TIMERS: The 1950s
In the 1950s, Bend, like so many American towns, was enjoying a lull between the upheaval of World War II and the radical social changes of the 1960s. Polly Gervais Jacobson, 79, reflects on the changes she’s witnessed since those “mellow” times. Source Weekly: When did you move to Bend? Polly Gervais Jacobson: We moved to […]
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OLD TIMERS: The 1960s
The 1960s were a thriving time for small-town Bend. Lumber production was on the rise, the population remained steady and downtown was bustling. Although the once booming Pilot Butte Inn fell into disrepair and was demolished just months after being added to the historic registry of buildings in 1973, the 1960s marked the addition of […]
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OLD TIMERS: The 1970s
As Bend edged toward 80 years old, the town was facing a drastic shift from an industrial town to a recreational one after the shutdown of Brooks-Scanlon Mill in 1983 because of dwindling lumber sources. In the subsequent decade, Bend’s population didn’t change much, growing slightly over the decade, 17,000 to 20,000 from 1980 to […]
