News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Sheriff's deputies arrested 21-year-old Jason Alan Melton, of Sisters, on burglary charges Sunday, April 20, a fter he allegedly attempted to get into two homes on Indian Ford Road. According to sheriff's reports, Melton and another man went to one home and asked to use the phone. When the resident refused, they allegedly went to the back door, where the resident confronted them as they were opening the locked door. The men allegedly left when the resident said she was calling police. Melton was taken into custody at Camp... Full story
Teddy Dale George, 22, of Sisters, was charged with driving under the influence of intoxicants, reckless driving and second-degree assault after a wreck April 18 that sent several Sisters area residents to the hospital. According to sheriff's department reports, George lost control of his Ford pickup as he tried to pass another vehicle heading northbound on Camp Polk Road at about 11:24 p.m. George allegedly drove off the west side of the road and rolled the truck several times. George was ejected and the other passengers... Full story
A packed house at Sisters Middle/High School auditorium was treated to a musical palette ranging from country-rock to folk-pop to cool jazz vocals in the final night of the Sisters Starry Nights benefit concert series Saturday, April 19. The concert, third in a series benefiting the Sisters School Foundation, was kicked off by a rousing set by local musician Phillipe "Frenchy" Mallen and Twang, which had the crowd clapping along and dancing in their seats. Nicolette Larson... Full story
Seven Black Butte School students swept a state-wide history competition held in Salem on Saturday, April 19. All seven placed either first or second in their categories, earning the right to comp ete in national competition at the University of Maryland beginning June 15. The competition's theme was "Tragedy and/or Triumph," and the students' objective was to show people facing and overcoming adversity in a historical context. All of the Black Butte School students focused on the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs as... Full story
Developer Ted Eady has won a zone change that will allow him to construct an inn on his Barclay Ranch property at the north end of Sisters. Sisters voters approved the annexation of the property in an election in March. The Sisters Urban Area Planning Commission approved changing the zoning on 13.6 acres of the property from UAR-10 to 7.31 acres of light industrial and 6.29 acres of general commercial at their April 16 meeting. The commissioners found that, with the... Full story
Sisters police reserves are pitching in to make sure residences and businesses in sisters have correct address numbers. The officers in the not-for-profit organization will go door to door starting Monday, April 28, offering to put up correct address numbers. According to Sisters police officer Todd Williver, the numbers will be of one size and style that conforms to city code requirements. A nominal charge of around $5 will cover the cost of the numbers, which the reserves... Full story
* * * To the Editor: What a cowardly, meanspirited attack you leveled on Jan van den Berg. If you have a problem with the fact that Mr. van den Berg has a demanding profession and cannot attend all of the school board meetings, why didn't you have the courage and good manners to call him and discuss it with him man to man before publicly attacking him in your newspaper? What a jerk you are! I know Jan, he's a kind and generous man. I know he donates many hours and many dollars to this community and cares very deeply about the... Full story
On Summer Rain The sky changes. The air goes muggy. Immoderate colors appear in the close heavens. Lavenders, pearly greys, deep mauve, great puffs of magenta stream overhead, flickering and churning, refusing to pose, moving on quickly to the great blue black masses in the east where their shapes compact behind the horizon and build power. The uppermost leaves of the tall poplars I grew from sprigs flash their surprising silver underbellies, iridescent suddenly in the slanted light. The pine trees sing. Black-eyed susans pop... Full story
Controversy still seethes over a revised school calendar for Sisters students next year, and whether eighth graders will attend the middle/high school or return to the administration campus as part of a reconfigured 6-8 middl e school. Board members Connie Morris, Charles Warren and Bill Reed declined to vote on these questions on April 14 because the other two board members, Jan van den Berg and Harold Gott, were unable to attend that meeting (See The Nugget, April 16 issues). The board is considering a modified calendar... Full story
