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  • City Council provides comic melodrama

    Bob Norman|Updated Mar 3, 2015

    The latest Keystone Kops melodrama, "Breakfast at Boyd's," closed Thursday night at the City Hall Playhouse before a packed audience. Based upon an actual event of a controversial outgoing mayor given what appeared to be favorable attention to place food carts on his bike shop property, the drama involved upset community members who believed that a city official should be given significant review when requesting a controversial decision, but was given only minimum attention. This comedy, one in a series, features the usual... Full story

  • Concerning annexation

    Bob Norman, Guest Columnist|Updated Oct 25, 2013

    The Sisters City Council is moving forward as quickly and quietly as they can to annex the Sisters Airport. The airport was and is zoned as Rural Residential by Deschutes County; this zoning restricted growth of the number and types of buildings, thus limiting the number of flights and types of activity by default. The county wisely chose this because this airport is unusual, being located in the immediate vicinity of hundreds of homes, less than 1 mile from an elementary school, a public library and the center of downtown.... Full story