News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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It's not easy for a new eatery to move into Sisters, but the town will soon host a Subway sandwich shop at the intersection of Hood Avenue and Locust Street. Tom McMeekin, owner of the adjacent Sisters Pumphouse, will operate the franchise in partnership with deve loper Richard Carpenter. The city's approval of a new sandwich shop, given by the Sisters Urban Area Planning Commission February 19, surprised some Sisters residents, who believed there was a moratorium on new resta... Full story
Burglary and attempted burglary charges against Jason Alan Melton, 21, of Sisters, have been dropped. Melton was arrested after he allegedly entered a home on Indian Ford Road. Melton told The Nugget that he was looking for help after walking for about four hours from Stevens Canyon where his Jeep Cherokee was stranded. The Nugget was told by the sheriff's department and then reported that Melton went to the back door of a home after the homeowner had refused a request to use the phone. That was incorrect. According to both... Full story
The Sisters School Board has proposed no increase in the base salary schedule for teachers in the 1997-98 school year. Teachers have requested an increase of 4.8 percent. The school district and teachers are negotiating terms for the last year of a four-year contract that spans 1994-1998. The proposal offered by the school board to teachers on April 21 would also allow the board to determine who is rehired after layoffs based on "competence or merit," without regard to seniority. In the teacher's proposal, presented on April... Full story
Wrestling with budgets and lawsuits, handbooks and zoning, a city council decision about what to do about moving city hall has been sent to the sidelines. But not for long. "Steve (Mayor Steve Wilson) has said he would like to have some kind of decision by the first of July," on the city hall issue, said City Administrator Barbara Warren. Current facilities are still too cramped, according to Warren. "Planning, public works and the building department are just crammed. You cannot have any kind of private discussion," she... Full story
Betty Marquardt, Sisters area resident and political activist, died April 26. She was 73. According to her family, Betty had been at St. Charles Medical Center in Bend since Tuesday, April 22, when she began to suffer from internal bleeding. "She looked good, like she was coming out of it," said her daughter, Barbara Inskeep. However, Marquardt had suffered a serious arterial aneurysm and died at about 9:30 p.m. Saturday. "She was fighting until the end. She would," said her daughter. Betty had a history of blood clots and... Full story
Opponents of the Pine Meadow Ranch development at the western edge of Sisters have taken their case to the Oregon Court of Appeals. The Alliance for Responsible Land Use in Deschutes County is claiming a March 14 decision by the state Lan d Use Board of Appeals wrongly let stand several county decisions which would allow residential development on Pine Meadow Ranch. The LUBA decision agreed with one of five arguments against a zone change from urban reserve to residential... Full story
* * * To the Editor: On Saturday, April 26, a group of adolescents canvassed Sisters selling magazine subscriptions. After some contact with one of the boys, and after examining the paperwork left, I doubted the merit of the deal they presented. A call to Bend-La Pine School District revealed that no Bend schools were running subscription drives. I have advised friends and relatives who wrote checks to Mountain Subscriptions, LLC and/or MSI, to exercise their right to cancel their subscription orders and consider stopping... Full story
On Commuting the Outback Rushing into town in this out of season Spring, wending my way around the ruts and caverns that make up our road, I am, despite the frost-ferns on the windshield, already spotting the chartreuse and velvet haze of new greenery along the shortcut. By the time I get to the highway, I've caught the mountains and they come flying with me, past the scrim of trees, keeping pace with my car as usual, heading for the spot where they will settle until the time comes for them to frame the sunset and glow under... Full story
Deschutes County will give about 260 acres of land west of Sisters Middle/High School to the Sisters School District -- if the parties can agree on how and by whom the land will be managed. The Deschutes County Board of Commissioners approved the land exchange on April 23, but the deal will not be final until the commission and the school district sign a letter of understanding and record a conservation easement. Early this year the school district sought 80 acres for a future educational facility. When the district... Full story
