News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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In 1979, Sisters adopted its first Comprehensive Plan. This has served as the city’s only guiding plan over the last 26 years. The plan review process started in 1990. After more than a decade of public involvement and a redrawing of the Urban Growth Boundary, in 2004 it was completed and adopted by the city council — temporarily. By the fall of 2004, Deschutes County’s 20-year population forecast had been appealed by the Sisters Forest Planning Committee to the Oregon State Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA). (The Siste... Full story
• Deputies dealt with several escaped horses. One got away and ran into the woods. • Someone reported finding a gun in the forest. • Deputies cited two boys after an MIP party. • A deputy stood by over a diesel spill on Wilt Road. The fire department responded and cleaned it up. Black Butte Ranch • A man turned in a gun he had been given for safekeeping. He was suspicious of its origins — with reason. It turned out to have been stolen in Medford. The incident was referred to the sheriff’s office for investigation... Full story
While it was a successful “Burn to Learn” exercise when local firefighters burned a house on East Main Avenue last Saturday, a little bit of Sisters’ history and a lot of one family’s memories also went up in smoke. For 30 years, the house was the home of Rev. Rudolph and Jeanette Ylvisaka, both deceased and parents of Marie Phillips, librarian at Sisters Elementary School. Marie has worked at the school for 22 years. Last week, she looked back over the years and recalle... Full story
The Scott Trail was the first route over the Central Oregon Cascades. It was located in 1862 about three miles south of and a thousand feet higher than the McKenzie Pass. In 1872, the McKenzie Salt Springs and Deschutes Wagon Road Company with John Craig as president opened the McKenzie Pass route as a toll road. For many years it was the only direct route between the Willamette Valley and Central Oregon. Craig later was given the contract to deliver mail between McKenzie Bridge and Camp Polk near present-day Sisters. He... Full story
The best athletes are those who adapt to whatever situation arises in competition. So, if nothing else, the adverse conditions at Saturday’s La Pine Invitational gave the Outlaws boys track team an opportunity to test its toughness and flexibility. Non-stop rain and numerous delays in the action caused the meet to drag well behind schedule. “The conditions and other problems made it the kind of meet you just get through and put behind you,” said head coach Ross Kennedy. “I was proud of the kids for sticking with it and compet... Full story
Pastor Tim Kizziar and a team of 11 members of Sisters Community Church (SCC) returned recently from the remote region of Kapchorwa, Uganda, where they saw first-hand how $25 and pure fresh water have made a tremendous difference in the lives of the people living there. In July of 2004 SCC established a partnership with the region of Kapchorwa which lies on the Kenyan border and has a population of approximately 200,000 people. A team from SCC traveled to Kapchorwa and dug... Full story
It may have been pouring rain in Sisters last Saturday, but it was dry and very, very hot inside a house at East Main Ave. and North Fir St. Some 29 firefighters of the Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire Department and three from the Black Butte Fire Department worked all day burning the house while learning how to safely fight structural fires. This “Burn to Learn” started at 9 a.m. After three hours of controlling small test fires inside the house and a lunch break on site, Sis... Full story
