News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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An undercover investigation by Sisters Police and the Central Oregon Drug Enforcement Team has led to seven arrests for distribution and possession of marijuana and methamphetamine. The investigation, which began in January, led to the arrests of David Glen Daugherty and Wilma E. Daughtery of Bend for distribution and possession of methamphetamine. Dawn Marie Blair and Jerry L. Flanary of Bend were arrested for distribution and possession of marijuana. Police also arrested... Full story
A Sisters woman died early Saturday morning after quickly consuming a large amount of hard liquor. Sisters Police and Deschutes County deputies responded to Veronica "Vonnie" Marie Danna's home in Crossroads shortly after midnight on February 24 after a 911 call reported a woman unconscious and not breathing. Danna, age 30, was deceased at the scene. According to police reports, witnesses said that Danna "guzzled" nearly a half-gallon of vodka "on a dare" in about 10 minutes. An investigation by the Deschutes County... Full story
To the Editor: I attended an open house in the new activity center for SOAR and the office of the Family Access Network Coordinator Thursday, February 22. What an exciting place. I would like to publicly thank Tom Coffield and Theresa Slavkovsky for the energy and enthusiasm they bring to this center. It is obvious that its success is due to great structure in the programs and follow through in activities proposed. I know where to start in planning my children's idle time this summer (SOAR 549-2091). Good job people.... Full story
I write in my cookbooks. The exuberant star is the finest possible accolade. "Approved by children" is another high success notation. It happens to be written on a light and frivolous chocolate mousse which, once made, I must defend with an old shoe until the proper serving time has arrived. Somebody's birthday and the parenthetical date is a lovely message for a person of particularly sappy sentiments to find and find again and again. But there are, burning in my brain and carved into the pages of some of my culinary... Full story
Some Sisters businesses seem to be showing anarchistic disregard for the city's sign ordinance. Getting businesses to comply with the ordinance has proved frustrating for City Planning Director Neil Thompson. "I don't want to make any secret of the fact that enforcement (of the sign ordinance) is one of the most distasteful elements of my job," Thompson told the Sisters Urban Area Planning Commission in their Wednesday, February 21 meeting. The sign ordinance attempts to provide an enforcement tool for maintaining an 1880s... Full story
Brent Steven Sherman Sr., 46, the subject of an Oregon State Police raid in Sisters in 1994, will return to central Oregon from federal prison in Lompoc, California to face charges for other crimes which allegedly occurred in 1995. Sherman had been paroled to Oregon after serving time for a Portland bank robbery, said his former parole officer. According to court records, Sherman will enter a plea on March 11 to charges of possession of methamphetamine, robbery, burglary, carrying and unlawful use of a dangerous weapon,... Full story
Tommy Vaughn Honea of Sisters was sentenced February 20 to 18 months in prison and five years of post-prison supervision (less time served) on a charge of third-degree rape. Honea, 25, pleaded guilty to the charge on October 4, 1995. The rape charge stemmed from a May 7, 1995 incident in which Honea had sexual intercourse with a 15-year-old girl who allegedly had passed out at his apartment in Sisters. Honea was subsequently arrested after authorities found him in violation... Full story
The two finalists in the superintendent search faced off with parents, staff and community members Sunday, February 25, in school board-sponsored forum at Sisters Middle/High School. Al Butler of Clio, Michigan, and Steve Swisher of Cottage Grove, Oregon, held forth for over three hours Sunday, fielding questions -- and asking a few of their own -- of some 30 people who turned out to meet them. Butler, who has been Clio's superintendent for the past 10 years said that his... Full story
A timber harvest on Highway 20 near The Jack Lake Junction just east of Suttle Lake will reduce ice and snow build-up on the dangerous curve. The North Slope Timber Sale was sold February 6 to Curtis Wicks Contracting of LaPine for $90.25 per hundred cubic feet of timber for the 3,450 cubic feet of timber in the sale. The advertised minimum bid was $58.95 per hundred cubic feet. Four bidders competed for the timber sale. The harvest must be completed by June 30, 1996. When completed, tree removal will let more sun into the... Full story
