News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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An 11-year-old Sisters Elementary School student was arrested Friday, April 23, after he allegedly threatened to bring a gun to school. According to Deputy Scott Shelton of the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office, the incident stemmed from a couple of days of teasing and harassment. Shelton said the youth told students who were teasing him that he was going to "return to school with my ... .22 and take care of you guys. The incident was reported and Deputy Shelton investigated and arrested the youth on a menacing charge.... Full story
When a student brings a weapon to school, when a student threatens a teacher or a fellow student, other students must report it, Sisters High School Dean of Students Bob Macauley told a school safety forum on Thursday, April 22. That's probably our best shot at prevention, he said. The Safe Schools Alliance forum, scheduled in February took on a particular urgency in light of massacre perpetrated by two students in Littleton, Colorado on Tuesday, April 20. Students performed skits depicting scenarios including harassment in... Full story
Hundreds of tourists lined the streets of downtown Sisters last weekend. At least 125 of the weekend's visitors were part of three different church groups who scheduled retreats and conferences in Sisters for the spring weekend. McKenzie Baptist Church in Vida brought 65 women to Sisters to hear writer and teacher Debbie Hedstrom speak. Hedstrom hails from Salem but has a number of titles in print through Sisters-based Multnomah Publishers. A group of 50 students from Oregon State University in Corvallis came to town for a... Full story
It is no secret to her peers that Sisters High School senior Leyah Jensen is an exceptional artist. Now her talents have been recognized by the top-ranked Rhode Island School of Design. Jensen has accepted a $21,000 scholarship to the prestigious art school where she will pursue a bachelor of fine arts degree. The highly competitive school attracts the best art students in the world. "It'll definitely be the hardest thing I've ever done, to every day put myself up against... Full story
* * * (Editor's note: This letter was also submitted to the Sisters Urban Area Planning Commission and the City of Sisters Planning Department) To the Editor: I must protest the recent decision to allow deviations to the site plan of the Sisters Smokehouse on Larch Street. Unfortunately, I received the agenda on the same day as the meeting and was unable to attend and argue against the changes. When I saw the changes that Mr. Herauf was requesting, some of which he had already done, I assumed you would take the appropriate ac... Full story
Killers in the schools. Boys who have been treated as outcasts walk into the lunch room or library with guns and bombs and start killing classmates. Horror descends like a fog over the community. An old friend, a teacher but not from the Sisters schools, called over the weekend to suggest we warn our readers that it could happen here. Of course it could. Sisters is no different than Thurston or Littleton or any other town that thought murder of children by children is a problem that only occurs in other towns, in other... Full story
Camp Sherman resident Emma Sivers was injured in a single-vehicle wreck on Highway 20 about 1/4 mile west of the entrance to Black Butte Ranch on Monday, April 26. According to Oregon State Police reports, Sivers, 53, fell asleep while headed westbound at about 5:25 p.m. Sivers' Subaru Outback drifted across the highway, narrowly missing an eastbound pick-up truck. She then reportedly overcorrected, heading back across the highway and rolling the vehicle once. The car came to rest on the north embankment of the road, its... Full story
Allan and Diane Herauf earned honors as Sisters' residential recyclers of the year and Espresso Junction won distinction as business recycler of the year at the April 21 Recycler of the Year awards ceremony in Bend. Deschutes Refuse and Recycling Association, the City of Sisters and The Recycling Team applauded the recyclers for their dedication and accomplishments in recycling, reuse, waste prevention and use of recycled products. The Heraufs have been recycling for over 10 years. They do it so well that they don't even... Full story
Runny nose? Itchy eyes? Sneezing, coughing, feeling low? Join the crowd. Many folks are being smitten by the lowly juniper tree in one of the most severe allergy seasons on record. An extremely wet spring followed by warm bursts of sunshine has convinced trees and plants, especially juniper, that it is a good time to propagate. They have pumped their pollen factories into overdrive. Dr. Frank Trostel of the High Lakes Health Care Clinic in Sisters says he is seeing three to four times the number of sufferers complaining of... Full story
