News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Each day, 650 Sisters students get a square meal at school. Out of these, 206 students get their meals for free or at a reduced cost through a federal school meals program. The school district's food services program was expanded this year from the elementary school to include the middle school and high school, and five employees were hired to serve in the program. Janice Comfort, wife of elementary school Principal Tim Comfort, is the food services coordinator for the... Full story
Deputies from the Sisters sheriff's station discovered a break in at a vacation home in town on Tuesday, January 21. According to sheriff's department reports, Sisters Public Works Director Gary Frazee reported a possible burglary at 153 West Adams Street. Deputies investigated and found the door to the mobile home closed but unlocked. They reported that one or more burglars broke out a bedroom window to get into the mobile home, where they allegedly stole a cassette player, an eight-track stereo, assorted bottles of liquor,... Full story
Deschutes County has entered into a land exchange agreement with Sisters-area resident Eric Dolson that could add six acres and a residential dwelling to Smith Rock State Park, while Dolson will acquire approximately 120 acres near Cloverdale where he intends to build a home. In addition to the land exchange, there will be a cash component of the trade to equalize values. This is the second recent exchange proposal for the county land. On September 27, 1996, Keith Cyrus, co-owner of Aspen Lakes Development, L.L.C., made the... Full story
Weekend partiers are making a trash heap out of the forests south of Sisters, and Sisters Ranger District law enforcement officer Larry Duncan is asking residents to help stop the littering. Duncan says he investigates incidents of littering and trash dumping in the forests "every weekend and sometimes daily." The area south of Sisters off Three Creeks Road is particularly bad because weekend partiers go out into the woods and leave beer bottles and other trash in their wake.... Full story
The Committee to Save Sisters has asked the Sisters City Council to place a measure on the May 19 ballot which would require developers to pay the maximum systems development charges allowed by law. In a letter to the city council, committee chair Virginia Groom said, "we believe that Sisters taxpayers are subsidizing the cost of growth... cost of capital improvements caused by new growth should be paid by new growth, not put on the backs of others." The 10-member committee... Full story
* * * To the Editor: I first learned of home schooling when my children were toddlers. A very religious family who lived next door to us were home schooling their son. The idea of sending my five year old into an institutional type setting like public school in a large urban area didn't really appeal to me, so the home schooling approach caught my interest. I also did not consider academics important in early childhood and public school seemed to emphasize it, even in kindergarten. I wanted an environment for my young... Full story
Sisters residents are raising questions about the cost, the need, and the environmental impacts of a proposed sewer system in the city. They will vote on whether to approve the $12,189,000 project in May. The city and its engineering firm, HGE, Inc., of Coos Bay, told residents at a Tuesday, January 20, workshop, that they have found a way to reduce the immediate cost impact on residents. Dick Nored of HGE explained that the cost of laterals from sewer lines to houses and busi... Full story
