This week, a new committee, the Mirror Pond Fish Passage Advisory Committee, was scheduled to have its first meeting. The purpose of the committee is to “advise and make a recommendation on a fish passage solution” for the portion of the Deschutes River that flows through downtown Bend. Those who have been around a while […]
Mirror Pond Dredging
Source Weekly Update Podcast 4/25/2019
The Source Weekly Update podcast! This week, hear an audio version of our stories on Dredging Mirror Pond, Bike Trail Memoirs and Gomper’s Distillery Grand Opening, from our April 26, 2019 edition.
Let Mirror Pond dredging stay dead in the water
On Nov. 28, Bend Park and Recreation District will host an open house-style meeting to present the proposed design for Mirror Pond. But don’t get your hopes up, anti-dredgers and pro-dredgers, because that design is not going to touch the topic of silt removalโnot even with a mucky 10-foot pole. The Nov. 28 meeting is […]
Letters to the Editor: Aug 14-21
Eclipse Hype “T he eclipse hype. I don’t get it. It will be darker for a few minutes. I saw the last one as a kid and it did not change my life.” This was written by a facebook “friend” recently. I pondered that thought on the way to the eclipse, getting out of bed […]
Mirror Pond: To Dredge or Not to Dredge?
A private business acquired the land beneath Mirror Pond in 2015, but there are at least 10 different stakeholders, including YOU, the public, who own the waters. Now the pond’s owners want to dredge, and they’re asking taxpayers for $3.5 million to pay for it. They’ll kick in $200,000. THE SCENE IS SET I t’s […]

