News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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The Sisters School District plans to include a cost-of-living salary increase of from 1.5 to 2 percent for all employees in the budget for the 1999-2000 school year. The boost, based on the Consumer Price Index, reflects the district's confidence that the state Legislature, currently debating school funding, will provide nearly $5 billion dollars in next year's budget. According to schools superintendent Steve Swisher, lawmakers and Governor John Kitzhaber appear to agree on... Full story
A pair of nasty wrecks on Highway 20 last week sent several motorists to the hospital. Two vehicles collided in icy conditions west of Suttle Lake on Thursday, April 8. According to Oregon State Police reports, Maurice Hickman of Redmond was headed westbound in a Toyota pickup truck when he saw a Mazda pickup truck driven by Lynn Giender of Prineville fishtailing and sliding into his lane. Hickman reported that there was nowhere to go to evade a collision and the Mazda pickup... Full story
Byline Sheriff's deputies needed just 24 hours to nab a suspect in an April 7 burglary at Sykes' Seafood. According to Deschutes County Sheriff's Office reports, a deputy arrested Robert Bilbruk, 47, of Salem, on Wednesday, April 7, after a traffic stop on Highway 97 in Bend. Bilbruk allegedly matched the description of the burglary suspect and a deputy reportedly found in the car a .22 caliber pistol and compact discs that were taken in the burglary. The alleged burglary occurred sometime during the night of April 6-7. The... Full story
Fran Thorn, 52, died on Thursday, April 8 at St. Charles Medical Center. She had suffered a brain aneurysm while having lunch with a friend in Sisters on April 1. "We were talking and laughing when she put her head gently down on the table," said her lunch companion, Elizabeth Renner. Fran received CPR from another diner who happened to be in the restaurant. Sisters emergency medical technicians were on the scene quickly. Fran was flown by AirLife to St. Charles. Despite these efforts, she never regained consciousness. Fran... Full story
A blanket of smoke lay on the fields of Cloverdale late on Sunday and early Monday. The smoke came from fires set by the Forest Service to remove flammable material from the woods near Sisters. These "prescribed" burns reduce the chance that a fire later in the summer will become an inferno, according to Forest Service officals. In a "second entry" burn near Three Creeks road one and one-half miles south of Sisters, the agency torched 65 acres of pine needles and other material that had fallen to the ground since that area wa... Full story
All third and fifth grade students at Camp Sherman's Black Butte School have met or exceeded state standards in math problem solving and writing. The school recently received results from testing for the Certificate of Initial Mastery. The state-mandated tests demonstrate students' ability to reach certain "benchmark" levels of achievement at third, fifth, eighth and tenthgrade levels. A total of 12 students took the tests at Black Butte School, six at each grade level. Twenty-six students are presently enrolled at the... Full story
Ed Sherrell has taken the reins as fire chief at Black Butte Ranch. Sherrell succeeds the retiring Darrell Churchill. Sherrell, who served Hood River for almost 14 years, said he has often vacationed in the Sisters area and was attracted by the beauty of the country. "It's a chief's dream to do his work in the country he loves best," Sherrell said. "I'm proud to have been chosen." Sherrell inherits leadership of what he called "a very progressive department." There are six... Full story
* * * To the Editor: I think it's time that Sisters expand the western theme to include the industrial park, at least in a modified form. Until recently all buildings in the industrial park were either compliant with the western theme, or were one-story buildings that weren't visible to the area around the industrial park. But the recent Weitech expansion building is two stories, and so far at least seems to be totally out of line with the local aesthetic. It isn't finished yet, so I may be proved wrong in the end. I hope... Full story
A piece -- actually many pieces -- of local history is vanishing from the landscape of Panoramic View Estates east of Sisters. Steve Frandsen is dismantling the home he and his then-wife Kathy built there more than 20 years ago with materials scrounged from old western mines, local homesteads and former Sisters landmarks. The Frandsens started construction of the house, which became known as Hanoi Heights, in 1975, using 100-year-old beams salvaged from the Sutro Mine in... Full story
Irony comes cheap these days. NATO has gone to war against Yugoslavia led by men who first entered politics by protesting America's involvement in Vietnam. President Bill Clinton plunged into national politics working on the anti-war presidential campaign of George McGovern. Great Britain's Tony Blair and Germany's Gerhard Schroeder were '60s-era European doves. Bill Clinton sees himself as the Great Conciliator, the man who would heal the wounds of America's racial divide and bridge the gap between the haves and the... Full story
