News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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In response to Bill Bartlett’s November 8 article about forest permits, I offer pertinent additional information and clarification not about bark stripping, but the stripping of nearly all the branches on multiple incense-cedar trees. This was not “cutting a few boughs here and there.” I was that first person to call the Sisters Ranger District Office. While hiking the Greenridge Trail with a friend recently, we saw two men some distance below the trail, spread far apart, cutting branches off trunks with pole pruners at le... Full story
Many folks in Sisters are lamenting the loss of our Book Corner, the longtime source of used books and DVDs, etc. Of course we all cheer the prospect of library expansion in any of the Deschutes Library branches, but I think a few aspects of the reorganization need to be highlighted. The Nugget article (January 20) didn’t mention that Director Todd Dunkelberg ordered dissolution of all “Friends of the Sisters Library” (FOSL) groups because he felt the funds raised were “not significant enough” to merit continuing the non-p... Full story
