News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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A sudden rash of pregnancies among teenage girls at Sisters Middle/Senior High School has administrators baffled and scrambling to provide state mandated services for both young mothers and their children. According to Principal Dennis Dempsey, eight girls are parenting this school year--which includes being pregnant or caring for a child. All are seniors and juniors. This is up from one last year and one the year before, Dempsey said. "I have no idea why (there was a sudden increase). The only thing I could find in common... Full story
Blue Lake Resort 20 miles west of Sisters has been purchased and is closed to the public as of April 2. Portland advertising executive Dan Wieden and his wife acquired Lake Shore Development, which owns and operates the resort, for $800,000. Assessor's maps indicate that the lake itself was not part of the transaction, but the new owners have ended public access. Blue Lake Resort formerly offered lodging, canoeing, fishing and horseback rides. The new owners advertised that... Full story
To the Editor: In his letter of April 17, Howard Paine expressed his concern about use of taxpayers dollars by the Sisters School District. While he had the courtesy of writing to me asking for information about his questions, he has neglected to include all the facts relating to the issues he raised in his letter. When the high school was being designed, the district was faced with the challenge of obtaining water. The first idea was to drill a well and operate our own water system. As part of that proposal the fire safety... Full story
One of the greatest adventures in life has got to be raising children. It is a quest for truth in the company of small, clear-eyed, spunky, dear fellow students, who are linked inextricably to us like successive ideas in a great theorem. We are not separate; it would make no sense. Most children are born with strong affinities for accounting and law. They know what is fair, what is good, what is going to be gooshey, what is scary, what looks correct and expensive, what looks phoney. They are aware that they are learning. A us... Full story
For veteran Sisters marathoner Spurge Cochran, his ninth race held a special significance. He was one of the 37,000 runners who took part in the 100th running of the Boston Marathon April 15. "It's an honor to run in America's oldest marathon and to run in the centennial of the event is really an athletic honor," Cochran said. The race drew 1.5 million spectators who lined the race route to shout encouragement for the sea of runners. Cochran, who ran in the middle of the... Full story
A majority of the Sisters School Board would like to give three administrators a raise that would average about 5 percent, total $8,300 for all three and be retroactive to July 1, 1995, the beginning of this school year. According to school board chairman Bill Reed, the increases are needed to bring administration salaries up to the median for districts of a size comparable to Sisters. The administrators are Superintendent Judy May, Sisters Middle/Senior High Principal Dennis Dempsey and SM/SH vice-Principal Rich Shultz.... Full story
Thirteen forest roads damaged by the February floods on the Sisters Ranger District are eligible for national funding following completion of a survey by federal officials. "We are confident that most, if not all, of the damaged sites at Sisters will be funded for repair," said Chuck Brown, forest engineer with the Deschutes National Forest. Once the snows melt, Brown said, he is certain additional damage will be discovered that needs attention. Federal Highway Administration officials along with Forest Service engineers... Full story
The roads to and through Sisters received a fresh coat of asphalt last week as crews worked to freshen old pavement and repair sections damaged by heavy trucks during the rebuild of that section of Highway 20 washed away by winter storms. In downtown Sisters, a giant milling machine ground out three inches of old pavement, according to Jack Boatwright, one of two Project Team leaders in the Bend construction office of the Oregon Department of Transportation (the other works on the parkway). Although the old paving was... Full story
It's not enough that the asphalt is hot, the machinery could crush a worker in a moment and drivers frequently aren't watching where they are going. On April 17 while Oregon Department of Transportation crews were repaving the highway west of Sisters a driver allegedly under the influence decided to barrel through the work zone and had flaggers jumping for the ditches. At about 11 a.m. Kenneth Michael Herrmann of Michigan, age 35, allegedly decided to ignore warning signs, pilot cars and flaggers and take his red pick- up thr... Full story
