News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Mike Dombeck, the new chief of the Forest Service, toured fire and disease devastated areas of the Deschutes National Forest on March 13. Before testifying about forest health issues to Congress on March 18, Dombeck wanted to look at damaged forests and talk to Forest Service professionals, industry representatives and conservationists. Dombeck took over from retiring chief Jack Ward Thomas on January 6. Dombeck toured the budworm ravaged forests along the Santiam corridor as well as the site of last summer's Skeleton fire... Full story
Fire destroyed a second-story garage apartment on Lance Road in Plainview on Wednesday, March 12. Flames consumed the apartment in minutes, destroying all the possessions of the newly moved-in renters. Cloverdale fire chief Chuck Cable determined that the blaze started near a recently serviced propane heater. Cloverdale fire units responded to the scene within eight minutes, but the structure was already fully involved, fanned by 15-20 mile-per-hour winds. According to Cloverd... Full story
Saying he has "heard the voters, loud and clear," Sheriff Greg Brown has trimmed more than 25 percent off the recently defeated sheriff's operating levy request. In May, voters will be asked to approve a one-year, $6.9 million levy. That's reduced from the $9.4 million per year, three- year levy defeated in the March 12 election. The reduced levy will not allow Deschutes County to open the new juvenile jail. The county will not add any more staff at the adult jail, and the inmate population will be "capped," with more... Full story
Sisters' boundaries grew overnight Tuesday, March 11, as voters approved bringing 13.6 acres of the Barclay Ranch into the city. Voters also approved a measure that requires voter approval to extend city services to users outside the city. Barclay Ranch owner Ted Eady proposed the annexation as the first test of a measur e passed in November that gave voters control of whether properties should be annexed. He plans to build an inn on part of the land, and part of it would be... Full story
Both sides see a partial victory in an order handed down from the state Land Use Board of Appeals March 14 requiring Deschutes County to reconsider a zone change allowing residential development on Pine Meadow Ranch. LUBA acted on an appeal by the Alliance for Responsible Land Use in Deschutes County that challenged the county's approval of a zone change that would allow standard and high density residential development on 50 acres of the Pine Meadow Ranch property. An... Full story
The Sisters Rodeo will pick its 1997 ambassador to the rodeo world April 6 with Rodeo Queen tryouts at the Sisters Rodeo Arena. The tryouts are open to young women who are 18 as of 23 through the age of 23. Entrants will be judged on horsemanship, personality and appearance. The young woman chosen as queen will receive a silver buckle and a wardrobe. She will represent the Sisters Rodeo Association at other rodeos throughout the state and will help with other courts during the 57th Annual Sisters Rodeo. There will be three... Full story
* * * To the Editor: I am writing this letter in regards to the recent article on trail fees. First off, I should say that I use a lot of the trails in the area, popular and unpopular ones. I don't care if the trails are maintained or not. If one can't find their way without a well marked "dirt sidewalk" or if they lack the energy to walk around a boulder or over a fallen tree then they shouldn't be out there. Secondly, these fees that are going toward maintaining trails and sites would not be necessary if pack animals were... Full story
I have known three saints in my life. Two of them were dishwashers. Saint number three, in order of meeting, had nothing to do with this subject. Saint number two was a purist-idealist named Marcott, whom my husband and I ran across in a fantastic coincidence while we were roaming through Oregon, searching for a home with good water and clean air. Tired and discouraged, draggy from the west-side rain, we had ducked into a small restaurant in Eugene, ready to put our quest on hold, dry our feet, and return to California.... Full story
A Springfield woman was jailed the night of Sunday, March 16, after she allegedly threatened a man in the parking lot of the Gallery Restaurant and then allegedly rammed his motor home with her car as the man drove away down Cascade Avenue. Sisters police placed Lynette Keyse, 37, under arrest at the Deschutes County Jail after sheriff's deputies picked her up in Redmond. According to police reports, an officer contacted the victim at about 7:30 p.m. after he called 911 from Sisters Pumphouse. In his statements to police,... Full story
