News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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click for larger map Foresters put 85 acres to the torch on Friday, March 19, west of the Tollgate subdivision. The intentional burning was designed to consume grasses, brush and small trees that could feed wildland fires. The controlled burn is part of an effort to reduce flammable fuels this spring near Sisters subdivisions, including Crossroads, Cascade Meadow Ranch and Squawback Woods. Fire managers ignited the Tollgate burn Friday, after National Weather Service forecasts showed light winds from the south would blow... Full story
The Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project (BMBP), working with the League of Wilderness Defenders filed a lawsuit on Monday, March 22, to stop parts of an extensive project in the Metolius basin designed to reduce fire danger and improve forest health. The suit was filed in Federal District Court by attorneys David Stewart and Rob Kline on behalf of BMBP. According to BMBP, the organization is seeking to stop "ecologically destructive" aspects of the Metolius Basin Vegetation Management Project. The complaint specifies that... Full story
As Sisters grows, the local electric utility has to continually upgrade its system to keep up. Jim Crowell, spokesman for Central Electric Cooperative (CEC), explained: "The upgrading projects for each year would take way more than two hands to count on," he said. "I don't mean that we're doing nothing in Redmond, Prineville and Madras. It's just that the biggest impacts of growth are in the Bend and Sisters area." There are two transmission lines to Sisters. One line runs north of the Sisters/Redmond highway (Highway 126)... Full story
Danya River and Justin Roth perform at Sisters Middle School. photo by Jim Cornelius Sisters students got a glimpse of the life of a traveling folk troubadour last week during an appearance by Justin Roth and Danya River. The musicians made a stop in Sisters on their West Coast tour on Tuesday, March 16, and visited with Americana Project students before presenting a concert at the Sisters Middle School Lecture/Drama Room. According to Americana Project director Brad Tisdel, the students were dazzled by Roth's intricate... Full story
Student creations. photo by Jim Cornelius Artists from age five on up -- students and professionals alike -- will offer up their works in a variety of media next month as part of a celebration of the arts as a force for change in the world. The celebration is called "My Own Two Hands" and it is a fund-raiser for the Sisters Folk Festival's Americana Project and for arts education in local schools. The Americana Project brings roots music education into Sisters schools. The art works will be auctioned at a party on Saturday,... Full story
The Community Choir of Sisters will present its spring concert on Saturday April 3, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, April 4, at 2 p.m. Performances will be given at the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration in Sisters. The featured work in this Palm Sunday weekend concert will be the "Requiem" by Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924), French composer, organist, teacher and choir director. With this "Requiem" composed in 1877, Fauré joined Verdi, Brahms, Mozart and others in setting to music the traditional Roman Catholic Mass for the D... Full story
Citizens review ODOT's plans for a bridge. photo by Conrad Weiler Local residents weighed in last week on a proposal to replace a bridge over Lake Creek near milepost 87 west of Sisters on Highway 20. A meeting hosted by the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) was held Thursday, March 18, in the Sisters Best Western Ponderosa Lodge conference room. ODOT unveiled the agency's current preferred option for the bridge, which is located between the old Suttle Lake Resort access road and the lake's newly-constructed access r... Full story
Long-time Sisters resident and Black Butte Ranch waitress Carol Woosley learned this week that she will be coming home from her 100-day cancer treatment program in Portland -- possibly by the end of this month. Woosley underwent a bone marrow transplant in Portland after months of agonizing waiting for a donor. Within days of each other, two matches were found and the transplant was scheduled. She has been undergoing follow up treatment and heavy chemotherapy medication since. "We've been living in our fifth-wheel at a... Full story
Paul Bertagna and Gary Frazee demonstrate the City of Sisters' new sewer truck. photo by Elise Gourguechon With 25 miles and about $18 million worth of sewer line to take care of in the City of Sisters, the Public Works Department has purchased a jet-vac truck to suck debris out of sewer lines. The 1989 Vactor truck is the same make as those used by the cities of Bend and Redmond. However, while Bend has purchased a new Vactor truck for about $240,000, Sisters bought used at $67,000. The truck provides the ability to blast aw... Full story
Kevin McCormick, Colleen Dougherty and Toia Nolan raced at Hoodoo Ski Area. photo by Zach Welcker Sharon Sparrow's mother lost both of her legs in an accident last year. After that, Sharon learned to ski. Sparrow, a Sisters resident, said her mother used to hike and jog -- and now she can't enjoy those privileges. But she is an inspiration to her daughter, who now that she has learned to ski, volunteers her time at Hoodoo Ski Area each weekend to help people with mental and physical disabilities to ski. On Saturday, she... Full story
Dr. Kris Blodgett demonstrates the CEREC 3D crown-making machine. photo by Jim Cornelius When Sisters dentist Kris Blodgett tested the CEREC 3D at a trade show, he knew he had to have one. The computer-driven crown-making machine takes the mess and hassle out of making porcelain crowns and reduces the patient's visits from two to one. It makes life a lot easier for both patient and dentist. Blodgett demonstrated the CEREC 3D at Spear and Blodgett Dentistry in Sisters. The main unit is a computer screen on wheels, with an... Full story
The large pack of llamas, so familiar to all who drive west on the McKenzie Highway, has moved across the mountains. But two remaining females "may be pregnant and a new herd may be in the offing," according to Linda Patterson who, with Richard, her husband, owns and manages the large ranch just west of Sisters, on Highway 242. "A young man from Wilsonville, just south of Portland, called us and wanted to take the entire herd," Patterson said. They're all gone except for the two females. "One of the nice things about this... Full story
The large pack of llamas, so familiar to all who drive west on the McKenzie Highway, has moved across the mountains. But two remaining females "may be pregnant and a new herd may be in the offing," according to Linda Patterson who, with Richard, her husband, owns and manages the large ranch just west of Sisters, on Highway 242. "A young man from Wilsonville, just south of Portland, called us and wanted to take the entire herd," Patterson said. They're all gone except for the two females. "One of the nice things about this... Full story
South Sisters and the last volcanic activity of about 1,000 years ago. photo by Jim Anderson At approximately 10 a.m. on Tuesday, March 23, while Willie Scott, geologist with US Geological Survey (USGS) was giving a talk in Bend on the South Sister "bulge," a swarm of small earthquakes began shaking things up about four miles beneath the dormant South Sister volcano. USGS scientists were quick to say that the activity posed no immediate threat to the public. Larry Chitwood, geologist with the Deschutes National Forest (DNF)... Full story
No one was injured when a driver jumped the curb and plowed into Eurosports. The bicycles didn't fare so well. photo by Jim Cornelius A Sisters woman drove her car into the front wall of Eurosports on Friday afternoon, March 26. The driver appeared to have accidentally hit the accelerator on her late model four-door sedan while pulling into a parking space on Hood Avenue in front of the sporting goods shop. The car jumped the curb and plowed into the building, snapping off a porch support pole and mangling several bicycles... Full story
Scott Pillar. photo provided Scott Pillar of Sisters has jumped into the crowded field seeking the Republican Party nomination for Position # 2 on the Deschutes County Board of Commissioners. That position is now held by Mike Daly. Pillar is the only Sisters candidate among the five vying for the nomination in the May 18 primary. "I think it's really important that Sisters get represented in the county," Pillar said. "I'd like to see us really play a key leadership role with... Full story
Jean Nave, President of the Sisters country Historical Society, displays ancient artifacts uneartheed at Black Butte Ranch. photo by Conrad Weiler The Black Butte Ranch Historical Society has grown to become the Sisters country Historical Society. "We wanted to expand community involvement in our group and have more local area people with an interest in history come together," said President Jean Nave. "The recent "History of Central Oregon" presentation at Sisters COCC's Lunch and Learn program had 48 people sign up from... Full story
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- City Council Meeting 7 p.m., 2nd and 4th Thursday each month, Sisters City Hall. 549-6022. - School Board Meeting 7 p.m., 2nd Monday each month, middle school lecture/drama room. 549-8521. - Black Butte School District Board of Directors meets 2nd Tuesday of each month, 7 p.m., Black Butte School. 595-6203. - Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce meets the 3rd Tuesday of each month, 8 to 9 a.m. at Sisters Fire Hall, 549-0251. - Sisters-Camp Sherman RFPD meets for drill every Monday, 7 p.m. Sisters Fire Hall, 301 S. Elm St.... Full story
- The fuse box on a dump truck was vandalized. - A man reported the theft of power tools from a shed sometime between March 16 and March 20. - What a local resident thought was a domestic disturbance turned out to be a birthday party. - A resident got a written warning about her horse, which escaped from a corral. - A tractor trailer driver hit a light pole in the Ray's Food Place parking lot, knocking it over on a car. - A deputy cited a Sisters Middle School student for harassment after he hit a fellow student several... Full story
There is great furor over Mel Gibson's movie, "The Passion of The Christ." Furor that the movie is anti-Semitic, that it falsely portrays the last 12 hours of Christ's life, that it's "message" will reopen old wounds over who is responsible for the Death of Jesus. To some, Gibson's movie is true to the text of the Christian Bible. To others, it is "Lethal Weapon meets the New Testament." There are moments of great filmmaking. There are also long stretches of inhumane brutality, and more than human forbearance. But religious... Full story
