News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Without a new sheriff's levy, law enforcement could be drastically cut in Deschutes County, warns Sheriff Greg Brown. Registered voters should have received their mail-in ballots, which must be returned to the county clerk by March 11. More than half those ballots need to be returned, or the levy election will not be valid under provisions of Measure 47, passed last November. The sheriff is asking voters for $9.4 million per year for three years. Of that, $7.2 million is needed to maintain the existing services and personnel,... Full story
The Sisters School Board failed to approve an alternative school calendar Monday night. The delay probably kills the idea for the next school year. Instead, the board sent a proposal back to the administration for further work, with instructions to bring a revised plan back to the board on April 14. The proposed calendar will put all grades, K-12 on the same schedule. This schedule will have a break in the summer of eight to nine weeks, with shorter breaks in the spring and fall of three to four weeks. There were actually... Full story
To the Editor: All across Oregon citizens are rushing to submit initiative petitions to amend their city charters to require a public vote on annexations. Why? Because the public is fed up shelling out tax dollars to subsidize developers. A recently released study, The Real Cost of Growth in Oregon , shows that every new house that's built imposes a cost of $24,500 for public facilities -- schools, streets, water, fire protection and such. Systems Development Charges that developers pay cover only a small portion of actual co... Full story
The peerless beet. Rotund without an ounce of fat. Loaded with color and minerals, little missionaries of iron and vitamin C, the colorists, the ruddy spades, the bassoons of the vegetable section, the cadence, the red ringed roots of power, drawing their goods efficiently, gracefully, patiently from the earth to our tables. Yet I know people who shun them. Who have never bought one of those vivacious bunches with the roaring green tops still on, freshly dug, banded and brought to the market with bits of authentic dirt still... Full story
Sisters is usually a bit off the beaten track for top name entertainment -- but not last Saturday night. Singer-songwriter Karla Bonoff and her accompanist, Kenny Edwards, played to a sold-out hall at Sisters Middle/High School February 22 in the first show in the Sisters Starry Nights concert series. The series -- which benefits the Sisters School Foundation -- opened with a well-received set from Sisters recording artist Mark Kershner. The Sisters singer's set ranged from... Full story
A 73-year-old Sisters woman got an unsettling surprise Tuesday, February 18 when she returned from an outing and found a 30-year-old man lying on her bedroom floor. The woman contacted police, who arrested Tracey D. Brown on her back porch without incident. He was lodged in Deschutes County Jail on a charge of first-degree burglary. The woman told police she left her house at about 10:30 a.m. leaving the rear door unlocked "like I always do." According to police reports, she returned home at about noon, read her mail, then... Full story
Sisters High School will host its third annual blood drive on Thursday, February 27, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., in the high school gym. The blood drive is being coordinated by the leadership class, made up of class officers and other student body leaders, and the local division of The American Red Cross. The Sisters Blood Drive is one of the most successful in central Oregon in terms of per capita participation. The first year that the blood drive was organized by the school, the community and the school joined forces to donate... Full story
The Sisters Ranger District will no longer allow grazing on 1,100 acres of Forest Service land adjacent to Black Butte Ranch. For the past two years, the district has analyzed whether there is a way to allow grazing within the Glaze Cattle Allotment without harming the area's old growth trees, wildlife and sensitive plants and watersheds. The allotment is within the Metolius Old Growth Area. The district has concluded that although there are environmentally sound alternatives to closing the Glaze Allotment, they are... Full story
More than 80 women from all over Oregon have told detectives in Deschutes County that they had some contact with Richard Coym. Coym was arrested on February 14 on charges that he drugged, kidnapped and raped women he met in bars or at rodeos. According to Captain Pete Wanless of the Deschutes County Sheriff's Department, at least 15 of those women were alleged victims of kidnapping and sexual assault. The others were "probably given some type of drug but were lucky enough not to have succumbed to it, or left with friends... Full story
