News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Construction and real estate sales are booming in Sisters -- and inventory is shrinking. photo by Jim Cornelius While home prices skyrocket in Sisters, Realtors struggle to maintain enough inventory. Sisters has attracted national attention in two different sources this last month. A feature on Sisters appeared on the front page of the travel section in The New York Times. Then Sisters was listed in a top ten of emerging second-home markets on the internet at MSN Money. Regardless of the recent recognition, Realtors agree tha... Full story
As Sisters grows, the local electric utility has to continually upgrade its system to keep up. Jim Crowell, spokesman for Central Electric Cooperative (CEC), explained: "The upgrading projects for each year would take way more than two hands to count on," he said. "I don't mean that we're doing nothing in Redmond, Prineville and Madras. It's just that the biggest impacts of growth are in the Bend and Sisters area." There are two transmission lines to Sisters. One line runs north of the Sisters/Redmond highway (Highway 126)... Full story
