News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Forest officials are trying to make the two-year-old trail park fee program more "user friendly." Deschutes National Forest has unveiled a new fee and permit structure for local forest users in the Recreation Fee Demonstration Program. Public feedback in the first two years of the program prompted the changes. "If we're going to have user fees in the National Forest system, they have to be simple to use and understand," said Sisters' District Ranger Bill Anthony. The 1999 trail park pass will be required at all 66 trailheads... Full story
Candidates for the Sisters School Board plan to continue the district's efforts to tie Sisters' diplomas to state standards. The three unopposed candidates Guy Gleason, Jeff Smith and Steve Keeton made themselves available for public questions at a forum Monday, February 22. One parent showed up. Guy Gleason, who is currently serving in an appointed position on the board, said that tying grades and diplomas to state mandated standards for the Certificate of Initial Mastery is... Full story
Hilary Hedemark stroked to two individual Class 3A titles at the Oregon High School Swimming Championships at the Osborne Aquatic Center in Corvallis, February 20-21. Hedemark also set a new state record, qualifying for the finals in the 200-yard individual medley with a new high school record of 2:13.88. She finished first overall with a time of 2:13.97 taking down Valley Catholic Melissa Beenen's record of 2:17.79. During prelims in her second individual event, Hedemark came within .03 seconds of breaking Seaside swimmer... Full story
Jeni Foster and friends will bring history to life at the Sisters Branch Library at 7 p.m. Friday, February 26, presenting a collection of folk songs relating to history and literature. Foster will be joined by Portland musicians Julie Hoagland and Jinx Davis. Foster and Hoagland performed together in a folk group during their high school years and have collaborated on folk music projects again during the last few years. Davis is a prolific writer of songs about Oregon. The program will include three of his original compositi... Full story
Heavy snowfall in the early hours of Thursday, February 18, triggered a slide at Hogg Rock on Highway 20 west of Sisters and closed the highway for the second time in 10 days. Dave Davis, an Oregon Department of Transportation spokesman, reported that the slide hit the roadway a little before 9 a.m., about a mile east of the Santiam Junction. The onrushing snow left a log truck buried to mid-door level and its driver unhurt but trapped. Several following drivers "saw the avala... Full story
A group of Sisters-area residents are not happy with federal legislation on Sisters' sewer submitted February 11 by Oregon Senators Gordon Smith and Ron Wyden. The pending legislation would convey 240 acres of Forest Service land known as "Section 9" directly to the City of Sisters. Section 9 is the proposed site for the city's wastewater treatment and disposal facility. Controversy surrounds a section of the bill that would require the Forest Service to sell at least six acres of the Sisters Ranger District administrative... Full story
