City of Bend road and traffic report: Week of August 14-20 ktvz.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ktvz.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Bend Park and Recreation District is starting a project at Drake Park that has been in the planning stages for several years. The Drake Park Bank and Trail Project will retain the character of the park while also improving accessibility and safety with modern design standards. The first phase of construction is beginning this week with a small portion of the park fenced off for work to begin on a trail section from Mirror Pond to the parking lot at the north end of the park. During trail construction, the public is asked to avoid this small section of the park and adhere to the detour of the Deschutes River Trail. BPRD identified a number of safety, environmental and maintenance issues along the edges of the river bank associated with the deteriorating rock retaining walls and failing or missing trail surface from Drake Park to Pacific Park. This project, from Galveston Bridge through Drake Park to Pacific Park, is intended to improve safety, accessibility and habitat along river
Drake Park Bank, Trail Project set to begin; BPRD vows to retain as many mature trees as possible ktvz.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ktvz.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Police seek witnesses to juvenile altercation, assault in NW Bend
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Contact between two groups of Deschutes River floaters led to a confrontation and fight Sunday evening among juveniles on a street in northwest Bend, injuring one person, police said Monday, as they asked to hear from any witnesses to the altercation and assault.
Police were dispatched around 5:20 p.m. to the 500 block of Northwest Riverside Boulevard, where witnesses reported seeing a fight between a group of juveniles in front of homes in the area, Lieutenant Clint Burleigh said.
The contact among the two groups began while floating on the river, Burleigh said, adding that “the group of suspects followed the victims in an attempt to engage in conversation after exiting the river at Drake Park, near the Galveston Bridge.”