News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Deanne Drake, a fisheries biologist, releases salmon fry into the Metolius River. Deanne Drake is a USGS Fisheries Biologist who hopes to reverse an aquatic obituary written before she was born. She and several others have spent the last few weeks carefully spreading the tiny salmon fry through promising habitat near the headwaters of the Metolius. "One third of these fish are from wild stock collected by the Warm Springs Tribe," Drake said. "Another third are from their hatchery stock, and the rest are hybrids."The hybrids... Full story
Sheriff Les Stiles doesn't plan any major changes in the way his office serves the Sisters area. Stiles told the Sisters City Council on Thursday, February 1, that he has no plans to change the city's contract for police services or to shut down the Sisters sheriff's substation. "We have every intention of maintaining that (substation) unless or until you (the council) come up with another building and have a better offer," Stiles said. Sisters Mayor Steve Wilson noted that... Full story
The Forest Service is questioning a $250,669.26 charge to hook the Sisters Ranger District compound to the city's sewer system. The bill was based on calculations made in October 1999, when the City of Sisters and the U.S. Forest Service were negotiating a trade of forest land (for the treatment facility) for sewer services at the compound. Those calculations were used in crafting federal legislation for a transfer of federal land to the city. The city opted instead to... Full story
A land use watchdog group has filed notice that it will appeal a decision bringing some 60 acres of land into the Sisters Urban Growth Boundary for new industrial parks. The Alliance for Responsible Land Use in Deschutes County (ARLU DeCo) will appeal Deschutes County Board of Commissioners decisions expanding the UGB and changing zoning on land owned by the Sisters School District and by Barclay Meadows Business Park at the north end of Sisters. The matter now goes to the state Land Use Board of Appeals. Howard Paine of... Full story
Peter Newport displays some of the beautiful wood that makes a Breedlove guitar. Peter Newport of Breedlove Guitar Company will describe the design and manufacture of these high-end instruments when he visits the Sisters Library on Monday evening, February 12. Newport teamed up with Breedlove founder Steve Henderson last year to handle the administrative end of the business and deal with customers. The Tumalo company designs and builds guitars and mandolins known for fine sound and custom features like a choice of... Full story
State planners have put the brakes on a proposal that could have sited a gravel quarry on public lands east of Sisters. Local residents and people who ride, hike and explore in the so-called "Golden Trangle" between Highway 20 and 126 rose in vocal opposition to an Oregon Department of Transportation study that put forward two possible gravel mining sites. One of those sites was off Buckhorn Road and another was off Fryrear Road. According to ODOT planner Jason Neil, the... Full story
The City of Sisters will jump into the fray as an intervenor in the appeal against bringing two proposed industrial parcels into the city. Acting on a request from Barclay Meadows Business Park and from the Sisters School District, the Sisters City Council agreed Thursday, February 8, to intervene in an appeal to be filed by the Alliance for Responsible Land Use in Deschutes County (ARLU DeCo). As an intervenor, the city will prepare a brief to the state Land Use Board of Appeals detailing the city's position on the... Full story
Grace and Homer "Willy" Williamston were married September 8, 1984. They'd both lost their previous mates to cancer. In fact, Grace had provided hospice care for Willy's first wife during the final days of her life. From the very beginning of their relationship, Grace and Willy had known they were soulmates. The couple enjoyed traveling together, and to celebrate Valentine's Day back in 1987, Grace and Willy relaxed at the coast for a few days. The morning of zValentine's Day, Grace got up and dressed, ready to go out for a... Full story
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- Deputies arrested a Bend man for drunk driving after he rolled his vehicle on Highway 20. A good Samaritan drove the man to town, where deputies attempted to contact him. The man took off on foot, but was quickly rounded up. He then complained of injuries, so he had to be taken to the hospital, where he tried to leave the emergency room. All in all, it took four hours to get the man booked. - A man called police after his 15-year-old daughter threw a piece of broken glass at him during an argument. This was not the first... Full story
Steven Gage will probably spend the rest of his life in prison. Gage, 43, the former proprietor of Royal Haven Equestrian Center for Girls near Sisters, was sentenced to 45 years behind bars on 27 counts of theft, criminal mistreatment and sex abuse of teenage girls under his care. The sentence was handed down by Judge Stephen Tiktin on January 31, 2001. It followed the guidelines of a plea agreement between Gage and the Deschutes County District Attorney reached January 4. Prior to sentencing, victim after victim, including... Full story
