News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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The Sisters-Camp Sherman Rural Fire Protection District wants to buy the rest of the city block where the Sisters Firehall stands for future expansion. The city council, in its Thursday, April 26, meeting, gave the go-ahead to negotiate the purchase for $200,000. Greg Brown, chair of the district fire board, said the fire department wants to expand its facilities to include more staff quarters, training areas and equipment space. The Oregon Department of Forestry headquarters... Full story
The City of Sisters and the Sisters Ranger District are close to settling accounts on charges to hook the district compound up to the sewer system. Mayor Steve Wilson presented new figures to District Ranger Bill Anthony based on metered calculations of the compound's water usage. The total bill comes to $81,119, including a charge for 50 percent of the cost of a main line running to the Forest Service kiosk restrooms in the triangle of land between Highway 20 and Highway 242.... Full story
Five years in the making, the long-awaited Suttle Lake Resort Master Plan Environmental Assessment (EA) has been completed. The plan calls for a new lodge, an expansion of the acreage of the resort, additional camping cabins and trails. Sisters District Ranger Bill Anthony formally presented the detailed EA in a letter inviting one more round of public comment. This announcement marks the third time an EA on the Suttle Lake project has been presented to the public. Analysis of a plan for rehabilitation of the Suttle Lake reso... Full story
Commissioners Tom DeWolf, Dennis Luke and Mike Daly joined Sheriff Les Stiles (center) in urging voter turnout. Residents of Sisters will continue to see Deschutes County Sheriff's Deputies patrolling city streets, even if voters don't turn out to support the sheriff's operating levy in the May 15 election. Sheriff Les Stiles said at a Friday, April 27, press conference that he will "absolutely not" cancel the city's contract for police services if the levy fails. The City of... Full story
Lisa and Avonlea Jacobson. The Sparrow Club will host a dinner on May 16 at the high school cafetorium. The purpose of the dinner is to raise money for the medical care of Avonlea Jacobson (see related story, page 4). "We've been working on this for months now, and it's finally come together," said freshman Kyle Crawford. The Sparrow Club meets weekly under the direction of vice-principal Bob McCauley to help with Avonlea's rising medical bills. "It's going to be a really nice chicken dinner," said sophomore Jessie Kinney,... Full story
Sisters is now a "Bicycle Friendly Community" -- at least in name. The city council made that declaration at its Thursday, April 26, meeting and committed to work toward making it easier for bicyclists to get around and commute to work. According to Jerry Norquist of the League of American Bicyclists, "bike-friendliness" is a bellwether of overall community livability. "If you have a community that promotes safe bicycling, that's usually a very healthy community," he said.... Full story
Sisters Middle School The site of the Sisters Middle School -- or at least a portion of it -- will stay in public facility (PF) zoning to allow for the future placement of a couplet through the property. The Sisters City Council affirmed that position during a workshop on Thursday, May 3. The school district has promised to sell that property and use most of the proceeds to pay down bonded indebtedness if a new school bond passes May 15. However, to get the $1.5 million estima... Full story
Local option taxes approved by Sisters voters last November are shoring up the budget of the Sisters School District. Using an estimated $450,000 in local option taxes, along with a $217,876 state "school improvement grant," the school district expects to hire new teachers to reduce student-teacher ratios to around 20-1 in kindergarten through third grade. The district plans to knock fourth and fifth grade class sizes from around 30 students down to 24 students; and set... Full story
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There's enough blame to go around for Gage The Sisters School District is not to blame for the rapes and sex abuse committed by Steven Gage. Gage is a bad man. He committed those crimes at his home, where he was supposedly raising and counseling those girls, not at school. The fact that he insinuated himself into the high school structure testifies only to Gage's cunning as a predatory con man. The schools were not alone. Gage conned many, many people and businesses in the Sisters community with a fabric of lies and... Full story
- A hiker was bitten by another hiker's dog. The dog, whose name is "Rush," is not known to have a political affiliation, was not frothing at the mouth and is not suspected of being rabid. The victim's political orientation was not released. - A 12-year-old boy shot up a residence and a vehicle with a BB gun while the resident was on vacation. Since he's "like a son" to the victims, they declined to seek prosecution. - A pedestrian walking through Sisters found and removed several pornographic images that had been affixed to... Full story
Serving Western Deschutes County Sisters, Oregon © 2001 The Nugget Newspaper Sisters, Oregon All rights reserved Comments to Eric Dolson, Publisher Sisters Sheriff's calls - A hiker was bitten by another hiker's dog. The dog, whose name is "Rush," is not known to have a political affiliation, was not frothing at the mouth and is not suspected of being rabid. The victim's political orientation was not released. - A 12-year-old boy shot up a residence and a vehicle with a BB gun while the resident was on vacation. Since... Full story
