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The pedestrian/cyclist bridge being built over Barnett Road in Medford, Oregon, will be done in July. It will be great to be able to bicycle almost nonstop from Central Point to southern Ashland, a total of 21 miles one way.

Eventually the bike path will be extended north, but that'll take years.
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Elvis Presley has been gone nearly 34 years, but the love affair Las Vegas has had with him still continues, even as Las Vegas appears to be dying on the vine.

It's a really good article, published on Valentine's Day:

Greene remembers the Elvis of those first shows as a nice, lovable kid who simply wasn’t in his element with the dressed-up nightclub crowd.

Wearing “a baseball jacket,” Presley looked like he had just wandered in “from the parking lot,” Greene recalls. Greene told Presley’s manager, Col. Tom Parker, that Elvis needed to dress to impress Las Vegas.

Greene even made fun of his opening act, drawing loud laughter from the audience. Presley laughed along with them.

But not everyone who saw the show thought Elvis was joke fodder.

“Bing Crosby was in the audience, and he told me Elvis would be the biggest star in show business,” Greene says. “Evidently, he saw something I didn’t see.”