LOUD BIKES SUCKLoud bikes suck. If you ride one, you are trash. We should all be pestering the Bend City Council to enact and enforce an ordinance to target loud bikes. There will be the โhard to enforceโ excuse for not acting. But, really, itโs as easy as requiring and enforcing the presence of the […]
Bridge Creek pipeline project
Pipe Dreams
For the past few years, the City of Bend has been trying to push forward a plan to replace the two pipelines that draw water from Bridge Creek and carry it 10 miles to a treatment center before entering into the pipes in town. One of the pipes was installed in the 1920s and the […]
Let it Flow
For the past year and a half, the now $30-$34 million Bridge Creek pipeline project has lain in wait, its completion stalled by persistent legal challenges. But last Friday, a federal judge turned the tap back on, permitting the project to move forward. “I was pleased but not surprised,” says Councilor Victor Chudowsky. “The most […]

