News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Orville Wesley Carrol of Rome, New York, died March 10, 2018 of natural causes. He was born at home in Bend on December 2, 1924 to George C. and Marie C. Sosinsky Carroll. Except for a three-year sojourn in Stockton, California, and a summer's job in Wenatchee, Washington, Mr. Carroll lived and worked in Oregon at various occupations, including time in Sisters. From July 1943 until March 1945, Mr. Carroll served in the United States Army Air Force stationed in Guam with the... Full story
Cascade Sotheby's International Realty is a big presence in the Sisters real estate community, having recently acquired Sisters real estate pillar Metolius Property Sales and its 11 brokers. Cascade Sotheby's estimates that it now has secured more than 22 percent of the Sisters real estate market. The brokers will celebrate with the community at an open house grand opening celebration during Fourth Friday Art Stroll on Friday, March 23. Longtime Sisters resident Phil Arends... Full story
The homeowners on South Pine Street and the tree service they employed to remove nine mature ponderosa pine trees from City right-of-way in front of their houses on January 2, 2018, are being fined by the City - but nowhere near the amount they could have been. In letters that were sent out on March 12, 2018 by the City attorney to three homeowners and Adam Bright Tree Service of Bend, demand is made for payment of $4,500 for timber trespass to the City within 30 days. This... Full story
I have been at war with rodents for most of my life. I am presently doing battle with a particularly clever mouse in the greenhouse, who has, in full disclosure, managed to outwit my considerable efforts to end his life early and with extreme prejudice. This lifelong, low-intensity fight for dignity against rodents has resulted in various demonstrations of comic folly, such as the time I cornered a Norwegian rat while cleaning out our garage in Solvang, California. I chased... Full story
There is a forgotten agricultural product all over the West that's causing thousands of wild birds and mammals to suffer: barbed wire. A long way back in the history of the "Taming of the West," steel companies began manufacturing a new combination of steel wire with sharp barbs attached, capable of causing serious injuries to any human or farm animal who came into contact with it. It is still used today, and very effectively, to keep livestock from wandering into prohibited... Full story
There seems to be something about Sisters that draws students from Minnesota for Collegiate Challenge Week. This year's visiting group hailed from Sage Academy in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. They are the seventh group from Minnesota to come to Sisters and help the local Habitat, Marie Clasen, Habitat's Family Services Manager said. They worked on Becky Conner's future home and helped with concrete footings for Bear and Mary Gray's home. After four days of the youth filling... Full story
Changes in environmental quality regulations in China are having a direct impact on recycling here in Sisters. Until recently, China has been the largest importer of recyclables from the United States. In an attempt to improve their own environmental quality, China has changed the standards for waste materials coming into their country. For example, they have banned mixed waste-paper. These policy changes are directly impacting the handling of recyclables by High Country... Full story
This is the second of a three-part series about Sisters mountaineer Warren Thompson who has gone on two expeditions to Everest, one to Denali, and many more to world-class mountains. Part one appeared on March 7. Everest 1984: "Nobody sleeps well on Everest because of the lack of oxygen," Warren Thompson says. In 1984, he was leading an American expedition that was attempting to climb Everest from the Chinese side of the mountain, a first for the U.S. "I was at Base Camp, look... Full story
Conversation surrounding electric vehicles and the environment has been steadily on the rise as companies such as Tesla and Volkswagen vow to "save the planet" with low-emission models. However, the most important step to keeping a healthy ecosystem is educating potential consumers about both benefits and risks of lithium-ion technology in a world already undergoing heavy pollution. Everyone knows that electric cars have zero tailpipe emissions, and corporations are quick to advertise their new green business model -... Full story
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO) collaboration made two historic announcements in February 2016. The first was that gravitational waves, predicted by Albert Einstein 100 years earlier, had been definitively observed for the first time. The second was that those waves constituted the first observation of the merger of two distant black holes, not detectable by any other means and indicating the power for discovery of this brand-new way of... Full story
