News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Traffic topped a list of concerns that more than 30 Sisters area residents laid out for the Deschutes County Sheriff's Department at a Town Hall meeting Wednesday, March 11. The meeting was one of a series designed for citizens to tailor their sheriff's department services to the needs of individual communities. Residents said they don't like waiting to get onto Cascade Avenue and then being forced to take risks and cut people off to get into traffic. Black Butte Ranch... Full story
A "posse" of about 30 Camp Sherman residents wearing "Save our Sheriff" badges trekked to Madras Thursday, March 12, to press for funds to keep Deputy Sheriff Dave Blann on the job in the community west of Sisters. The Camp Sherman contingent fears Blann's post will be cut because of a $1.2 million shortfall in the Jefferson County budget projections for 1998-99. Jefferson County Sheriff Jack Jones explained his department's budget request before the county budget committee. Jones was laudatory about the job Blann has done... Full story
Three members of the Sisters Sewer Focus Group resigned in protest Monday night, March 16, because the groups "agenda seems to us to be blatantly biased" in favor of the sewer. Libby Bottero, Virginia Groom and Pam Emmrich left the community information meeting after stating their objections to the tone and content of the focus group's first newsletter, sent out this week. The 12-member group's mission is "to provide unbiased, accurate information on which Sisters voters can... Full story
A group of Sisters residents is looking for $600,000 to build a community center. Carol C.B. Davis asked the Sisters City Council Thursday, March 12, to act as the administrator for a community development block grant to build the center. Davis represents a committee of five service club members and other interested citizens, who plan to apply for the federal grant in the city's name next month. The center is planned for a 10-15 acre site owned by the Sisters School District,... Full story
Lill Palmer, owner of the Ski Inn, has once again donated the proceeds from a day's sales to Sisters Habitat for Humanity. "We did great. We were real happy with the turnout," Palmer said of the Saturday, March 14, event at the cafe on Cascade Street at the east end of Sisters. Palmer said that about $1,500 was raised through sales, even though an error on the part of The Nugget said the proceeds were going to Hospice, instead of Habitat for Humanity. Last year, as a way of thanking the community for 25 years of business in... Full story
The Sisters Starry Nights Concert Series thrives off the support of its sponsors. Many of those sponsors are giving a hand to their kids' hometown schools. According to Sisters School District Superintendent Steve Swisher, Sisters Starry Nights and the Sisters Schools Foundation were created in 1996 in response to the district's financial challenges. "Budget cuts over time threatened (our) arts and music programs," Swisher said. "(series chair) Jeri (Fouts) and (high school principal) Dennis Dempsey were talking about... Full story
* * * To the Editor: In response to Ken Emmerich's letter, The Nugget, March 11: Mr. Emmerich raised questions regarding influence or pressure applied by City Hall on the work product (newsletters) initiated by the Sisters' Focus Group. The Focus Group was formed for the explicit purpose of reviewing, validating, and releasing information they deem accurate. To do that the group works with a neutral facilitator and follows a consensus building process before releasing "key messages" to the Sisters community regarding the prop... Full story
Sisters welcomed back some old friends and met some new ones Saturday night, March 14, as the second Sisters Starry Nights concert played to a sold-out crowd at Sisters High School. Kim Carnes and Greg Barnhill were primed for their return engagement, and offered up a high energy set that moved from peak to peak touching on Barnhill's "Walkaway Joe" and "House of Love" and Carne's "Don't Fall in Love With a Dreamer," and "Bette Davis Eyes." Country artist Mark Collie quickly e... Full story
