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Living in the center of town puts residents at the heart of it all The neighborhoods of Old Bend and River West contain a highlight reel of sorts of what people who don t live in Bend come to the city to do floating the river, cruising the Old Mill, sipping beer at the OG breweries and grabbing an Ocean Roll from the OG Sparrow Bakery. Comprised largely of historic homes, many of them cottages cobbled together by lumber-mill workers doing it like the protagonist in Johnny Cash s One Piece at a Time song, Old Bend gives residents a glimpse of what life was like before the mills were replaced by a mall; before people-watching the scantily clad river floaters became a prime afternoon pastime any day of the week.
maritime operations in san juan late yesterday. all of that remains closed. things could reopen tomorrow. it all depends on what happens for tonight. for florida, people up and down the coast have been stocking up on water and nonperishable. still a few days out. a lot of uncertainty to where this eye hits the sunshine state. neil? neil: phil keating, thanks very much. how bat could things get? we re just revving up to the hurricane season. joe bastardi is with us. what do you think? this last a classic bend in the track to the west, which is usually an ear mark of a major intensifying storm. if you go back and look at i talking about the track in two or three days. it s moving north, to the north. it has avoided what we wefer refer to as a cribbian gauntlet.