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• Details on the offer are still under wraps By Scott Hammers The Bulletin
back Mirror Pond. The more than 100-year-
to dredge it or otherwise ad-
Park & Recreation District Executive Director Don
from PacifiCorp to local con-
Horton, Bend city Councilor
declined to comment on the
mudflat. Last week, the three mem-
Victor Chudowsky, and cit-
bers of the Mirror Pond Ad
specifics of the offer Wednesday, citing nondisclosure agreements they signed with PacifiCorp. SeeDam/A5
dresstheproblem toprevent the pond from turning in to a
Local officials have prepared an offer they intend to
old dam has been central to several years of ongoing
izen member Ned Dempsey
submit to PacifiCorp to take
discussions about silt accumu-
Hoc Committee who form its
— drew up an offer that would transfer ownership of the
control of the dam holding
lation in the pond, and how
negotiating subgroup — Bend
dam and surrounding lands
trol. Chudowsky and Horton
Libraries are stuck between
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By Michael S. Rosenwald The Washington Post
The hallmark of public libraries — the printed book, bound by covers and centuries of page-turning — is being shoved aside by digital doppelgangers. Around the country, libraries are slashing their
And a Wed exclusiveTwoveterans, taking care of each other after a war's tollbut one is a dog. benttbunetin.cern/extras
print collections in favor of
e-books, prompting battles between library systems and print purists, induding not only the pre-pixel generation but also digital natives
EDITOR'5CHOICE
Craft sake is latest trend that's brewing
who represent a sizable por-
tion of the 1.5 billion library visits a year and prefer print for serious reading. Some of the dashes have been heated. In New York, protesters out-
side the city' s main branch
haveshouted:"Save the stacks! Save the stacks!" In Northern Virginia, the Fairfax
By David Sharp The Associated Press
Dean Guernsey/The Bulletin
County library system
Veterinarian Jeff Cooneyand Laura Hardy, a veterinary student fromWestern University, treat a bald eagle at High Desert Wildlife
chief recently mused that
Rescue and Rehabilitation east of Bend. The adult female eagle has a wounded left wing and is being treated with antibiotics, anti-inflammatory and pain medications as well as replacement fluids.
the Friends of the Library were no longer friends — a feud fueled by outrage over a print collection that
are hoping to transform the so-called "rice wine"
By Dylan J. Darling
to haul an animal — arrived.
has shrunk by more than
into the next artisan alcohol-of-the-moment in the U.S. Dan Ford, whose Maine-
A bald eagle found injured by Wickiup Reservoir faces a long recovery if she is to ever fly again. While X-rays Wednesday show the large female bird does not have any broken bones, her left wing needs
Although unable to fly, the bird was trying to es-
300,000 books since 2009. The drop in D.C. is even
cape into the woods, said
more dramatic: Nearly 1
Deschutes County Sheriff's Sgt. Vance Lawrence. He
million books have vanishedsince2009. "To say Gutenberg's days are over is a temble mistake," said Dennis Hays,
KITTERY, MaineFirst came boutique winer-
ies. Then microbreweries and craft distilleries. Now Japanese sake aficionados
made sake is just hitting the market, has bet his retirement savings that con-
sumers will be sold on his premium sake once they give it a try. "We see it as a market that's untapped," said Ford, who developed a taste for
sake while working in Japan, then later returned there to learn from a sensei,
or teacher, before launching Blue Current Brewery,
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Namethatdaldeagle High Desert Wildlife Rescueand Rehabilitation in Bend is taking name suggestions for a baldeagle found injured Tuesday near Wickiup Reservoir. Sendsuggestions to info©highdesert wildlife.or g. For more information about the nonprofit group, go to www. highdesertwildlife.org and to report an injured animal, 24 hours a day,call 541-241-8680.
time to heal from a possible
nician Josh Barker easily caught up with the bald eagle. "Big birds like that, they
electric shock injury, said
don't run," Lawrence said.
JeannetteBonomo, vice
president of High Desert Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation east of Bend. "It's going to be a long process if she survives," Bonomo said. The reha-
been injured when she landed on a power pole and came into contact with pow-
trieve the bird. A U.S. Forest Service law
"They just kind of hop." The key to the capture
enforcement officer and a
er lines.
Deschutes County Sheriff's
turned out to be a small blanket Barker had with
Someone headed to Wickiup Reservoir on Tues-
law enforcement technician stepped in to help. Bonomo
day afternoon found the
said the Forest Service offi-
one of about a dozen craft
a year, with the bald eagle
bald eagle with an injured wing alongside South Cen-
cer located the bird and kept track of her until the De-
producers operating — or gearing up to — in North
likely to lose and then re-
tury Drive. Bonomo said
schutes County tech — who
grow flight feathers on the wing. The bird may have
her pickup was in the shop so she was not able to re-
handles animal complaints and whose truck is equipped
America.
said Law Enforcement Tech-
bilitation could take up to
a former U.S. ambassador
and chairman of Fairfax Library Advocates, a group of residents at war with library
him, which he draped over
officials. "Nothing can take the place of a book." Librarians are feeling the heat. "We' re caught
the bird and then scooped her up. He then put her into
between two worlds," said Darrell Batson, director of
a large carrier in the back of
the Frederick County Public Libraries system in Mary-
his truck and brought her to the rehabilitation center east
of Bend.
land, where the print collec-
tion has fallen 20 percent SeeEagle /A5
since 2009.
Sake has been around
SeeLibraries/A5
for centuries in Japan, but
consumption has dropped in recent years. Meanwhile, it's ticking upward in North America, benefiting from the overall popularity of Japanese foods — from ra-
The mad scramble to get off the GOPdebate bubble
men and soba to sushi and yakitori — as well as riding
By Will Leitch
the trend of consumers
Bloomberg News
seeking far-flung flavors and artisanal products. Premium ginjo sake is nothing like the rough-tasting stuff sometimes served warm at low-end sushi
shops, craft brewers say. Top-notch sake — best served chilled — has a clean flavor profile that can be full-bodied and robust or light and fruity, some-
In the month before college basketball's NCAA tournament bracket is announced,
thereisa m adscramble for dozensofteams togetoffthe bubble. Top-tier teams like Duke
SeeSake /A5
worry about the bubble; they' re comfortably in the tournament.
It's the ones who are in slots 32-44, fighting for one of
the tournament's 36 at-large
bids, who spend that last
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licorice.
and Kentucky and Michigan State don't have to
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ANALYSIS month in a state of constant stress and panic: The tournament is so important that
if you make it, your season is vindicated, and if you don' t,
it's as if your season didn' t happen at all.
This madness, in a unique set of circumstances that may never bereplicated,has
debate organizer would ever have to fit more than 10 people on a stage. So, Fox News and
extended itself to this year' s
CNN, who are hosting the first
Republican primary season. There are currently 14 people officially running for the Republican nomination for pres-
two debates on Aug. 6 and Sept. 16, respectively, have designed a solution: Only 10 make the cut. SeeDebate/A4
ident, the first time that any
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