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Tumalo Falls area to remain closedfor now
COLORADO AVENUE
To work on a safer river crossing,
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Low heart rate, high
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Crime rate Doyou havea
The road and trails to
low resting heart rate? If so,you might be predisposed tocriminal activity, a studysays.A3
Tumalo Falls will remain
Prepare adetourroutenew
closed, for now. Ongoing construction
The Colorado Avenuebridge will be closed from Oct. 5 to Nov. 17 for construction of a pedestrian tunnel underneath. The bridge is the city's second busiest based ontraffic counts conducted in October 2013.Thecounts were not focused on bridges, but rather on nearby intersections, meaning they could over- or understate traffic.
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of the road and the intake to the new city of Bend
water pipeline is keeping thepop› On A6 ul ar hiking spot closed to the pub-
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trict ranger for the Bend-
13,949cars Iper day
Fort Rock Ranger District of the Deschutes National Forest. He said he is not
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14,691 car
sure when the road and trails might open again although he is optimistic it might be this fall.
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An area of dirt has been removedalong the east side of Col›
Bones of a human ancestor uncovered
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Bend isn't known for its fall colors, but drivers will nonetheless see a lot
of yellow and orange on road signs as the Colorado Avenue bridge, Bend's second-busiest crossing over the Deschutes River, will
be closed from Oct.5to By John Noble Wilford New York Times News Service
Acting on a tip from spelunkers two years ago, scientists in South Africa
discovered what the cavers had only dimly glimpsed through a crack in a limestone wall deep in the Rising Star cave: lots and lots
of old bones. The remains covered the earthen floor beyond the narrow opening. This was, the scientists concluded, a large, dark chamber for the dead of
a previously unidentified species of the early human lineage — Homo naledi. The new hominin species was announced Thursday by an international team of more than 60 scientists
Nov. 17. For the six-week period,
vehicles will be rerouted to the south across the Bill Healy Memorial Bridge on Reed Market Road. The
closure will allow the Bend Park 8t Recreation District
to build a $1.6 million tunnel underneath the Colorado Avenue bridge, something district staff says is an important step in creating an unbroken trail
along the river and in preventing pedestrians from making an unwise dash across the road above. Michelle Healy, the district's director of stra-
tegic planning and design, throws her hands over her
Johannesburg. The species name, H. naledi, refers to
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14,264 cars per day
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face when recounting people she's seen wander into
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traffic on Colorado Avenue
on the river's eastern bank.
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The schools driving the
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Bend Fire Battalion Chief Dave Howe said "it's a
student loan
miracle no one has been killed" in that spot.
debt crisis
Reed Market Rd.
In the past, an unofficial
trail allowed one to walk under the bridge without going up to Colorado Avenue. However, Chelsea Schneider, a landscape
12,087 cars per day cure . City of Bend
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architect for the district,
noted the older path was not accessible to those with physical disabilities and had poor clearance, leaving many vulnerable to a
the road not looking at traffic
District, the official detour
carrying a floatie." Despite the upside, the
cannot pass over it.
district acknowledges the
keep aneye on theColumbia bridge and work with the Old
can walk or ride from Farewell Bend Park, or
project will be a real pain for those who frequent the bridge. A close look at a map, however, reveals a shorter
even further upstream,
detour option directly past
down to at least Drake Park," Schneider said.
the district's offices and over the Columbia Street bridge.
bonk on the head.
"With this project, you
"And, just as important, it will keep people from running across the road. Vehicles just aren't expecting people right there, and I' ve seen someone wander onto
WASHINGTON — In August 2014, network
technicians opened a special connection between
Healy said the district will
computers at the federal
departments of Education and Treasury. On nights and weekends
Mill District if traffic gets out
of hand. The district says it has
throughout the month, that
taken a number of steps to
connection delivered to
ease the pain of the closure, including scheduling the project during the shoulder season.
Treasury some 46 millions
their financial situations
but instead emphasized that
"We really wanted to hit that window between the end of summer and the start of
because the bridge is privately owned by the Old Mill
ski season," Schneider said. SeeBridge/A4
school and whether they
Schneider said the district
was not attempting to save its staff from morning traffic,
of pieces of information about student borrowers in the United States, including when they started and left college, their incomes after kept up with their loans.
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led by Lee Berger, a U.S. paleoanthropologist who is a professor of human evolution studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in
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Oct.5to Nov.17
The $1.6M tunnel project aimsto keep pedestriansfrom dashing acrossthe road By Tyler Leeds
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"If there is time this fall,
... we will open those up," Larkin said. "We will pro-
ColoradoAvo. bridge closed
orado Avenue as construction continues Thursday afternoon on the pedestrian tunnel under the road.
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A glimpseinto Kitzhaber’smind
the cave where the bones
lay undisturbed for so long;
By Jeff Mapes
"naledi" means "star" in the
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local Sesotho language. In two papers published
PORTLAND — While
finishing his second term as governor in 2002, John
this week in the open-ac-
cess journal eLife, the researchers said the more than 1,550 fossil elements
documenting the discovery constituted the largest sample for any hominin species in a single African site, and one of the largest anywhere in the world. Further, the scientists said,
Don Ryan I The Associated Press file photo
Former Oregon Gov.John Kitzhaber’s personal journal suggests he was upset with the state’s leaders and voters and disenchanted with politics as he neared the end of his second term in 2002.
that threatened schools and other services. "The State is
sleeping. Indifferent." Kitzhaber criticized the
legislative leadership, the Kitzhaber was bitter and business community — and discouraged about the state' s also his own inability to get leaders and its voters, acmuch done. "What a sad way cording to newly released to finish my political career," excerpts from his personal he wrote. journal. Kitzhaber's rocky last year "Nobody seems to care," of his first two terms as govKitzhaber wrote in the mid-
dle of a huge budget crisis
ernor is a well-documented part of his time in elective
office, which ended in February when he resigned under pressure just three months after being elected to a record fourth term. But the new excerptsattached to a pair of 2012
emails to Kitzhaber released along with thousands of other records this week-
offer a stark view of just how disenchanted he was with politics.
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that sample is probably a small fraction of the fossils
yettobe recovered from the chamber. So far the team
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least 15 individuals. SeeAncestor/A6
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