News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Vandals blasted at least four holes in a brand new Forest Service sign at the eastern entrance to the McKenzie Pass-Santiam Pass Scenic Byway on Highway 242. According to a Deschutes County Sheriff's Office report, "unknown suspect(s) fired a 12-gauge shotgun and about a 9 mm handgun" at the sign located at approximately milepost 89 on the McKenzie Highway. A sheriff's deputy and a Sisters Ranger District law enforcement officer estimated that the shooting occurred between 9 a.m., March 1, and 11 a.m, March 17. Sisters... Full story
One young man was released while another remained in jail for allegedly violating the same judicial order. Nicca Levine was released from jail last week. Levine had been held for allegedly violating a court order that he have no contact with the informant who participated the arrest of Levine and Jeffrey Trainor last September for delivering marijuana in the Sisters City Park. At a hearing on March 3, Levine pleaded guilty to the drug delivery charge. Trainor pleaded no contest. The two were released before being sentenced. T... Full story
Central Oregon students are poor relations when it comes to funding the Educational Service District (ESD). A bill introduced in the state legislature by Representative Ben Westlund seeks to change that. Central Oregon's Crook-Deschutes ESD, which includes Sisters, gets $52 per student in funding, the lowest in the state. That money provides specialized support services for the region's school districts. Westlund told The Nugget that his bill, HB 3592, "is designed to take a v... Full story
More false-front western-style buildings will go up in Sisters if the city council approves changes to the city's architectural theme. Buildings will be required to be of the style found in Sisters in its pioneer days - in the early 1900s. Exceptions will be allowed only if a builder provides a photograph or plans of a different style existing at the turn of the century east of the Cascades in Oregon. The changes mean scrapping the 1880s time frame in the architectural theme,... Full story
The annual Sisters Easter Egg Hunt will be held at Three Sisters Overnight Park and Creekside Park (formerly Sisters City Park) on Easter Sunday, April 4. Sirens will sound promptly at 1 p.m. to start the hunt hosted by the Easter Bunny and the Sisters-Camp Sherman Volunteer Fire and Ambulance Association. All children from infant through 11 years of age are invited to participate. The park is located near the Bend/Redmond Highway Junction at Highway 20 and East Jefferson Avenue. The Easter Bunny will greet children and... Full story
Michael Gaston, library director for Deschutes County, earned plaudits from Sisters library supporters for steering the library system through tough financial times. Gaston led the Deschutes County Library District through three difficult 1998 elections, culminating in a funding tax levy overwhelmingly passed last November. The Sisters Library Board and Friends of the Sisters Library Board presented Gaston with a glass clock with an inscription thanking him for his tireless efforts in the library elections. Their meeting was... Full story
The longer the Sisters country goes without a warm, heavy rainstorm on our deep snowpack, the less likely the community is to experience serious flooding. The potential for flooding is coming down, Deschutes County Watermaster Kyle Gorman told Sisters area residents at a city-sponsored flood workshop last week. The only way it could really flood is (if there are) extremely warm temperatures and extremely high precipitation... at high elevation, he said. According to Gorman,... Full story
An early spring storm didn't dampen the spirits of over 150 participants in the 49th John Craig Memorial Ski Classic. The Sisters-area event commemorates the efforts of John Templeton Craig who died on McKenzie Pass in December 1877, attempting to bring the Christmas mail from the Willamette Valley to Camp Polk near Sisters. Organized by the Oregon Nordic Club, the event features a ski tour, three races and a commemorative mail-carry, where skiers retrace the approximate route followed by Craig from the west to the east snow... Full story
Two Sisters men were hospitalized after a crash on Highway 126 at Goodrich Road east of town on Friday, April 2. According to sheriff's office reports, the accident occurred at 7:10 a.m. when William Richard Wood, 72, driving a Ford F-350 pickup truck, failed to slow for a slow vehicle in front of him and rear-ended a Chevrolet pick-up truck driven by James E. Corfield, 64. A sheriff's deputy reported that sun may have been a factor in the early morning accident. Wood also... Full story
* * * To the Editor: The efforts of the Community Action Team of Sisters - more specifically the group which is trying to improve alternate transportation by developing more bike-pedestrian paths, lane striping, sidewalks and the appropriate signage for the Sisters area - needs the support of the community. There are a number of reasons why the community needs to get behind this project: Alternate transportation improves air quality through less reliance on motor vehicles. The Union of Concerned Scientists have found that 85... Full story
