News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Up to 2,474 acres of the Sisters Ranger District is scheduled for commercial timber harvest in a massive effort to restore the health of the forest and reduce the risk of wildfire. The Deschutes National Forest announced the project in a decision notice published April 22. Over 3,500 acres northwest of Sisters will receive intensive treatment as part of the Santiam Late Successional Reserve Restoration Project. Thirty-four miles of roads will be closed. Deschutes National Forest Supervisor Sally Collins acknowledged that the... Full story
The half-dozen or so used cars that have become a common sight at the east end of Sisters will soon be gone. City Planner Neil Thompson is working with the owner of an unauthorized used-car lot at the corner of Highway 20 and Locust Street to put an end to use of the private property for selling used vehicles, boats and campers. Thompson, landowner Rex Trowbridge of Redmond and his nephew Lance Trowbridge of Sisters, launched a coordinated effort Monday, May 4, to keep people from parking vehicles on the undeveloped parcel... Full story
A Sisters High School student has learned that offering to buy plutonium to make a bomb is no joke. On April 13, the boy sent e-mail from a computer at the school via the school's Internet service, Outlawnet, through a mail forwarder in Beaverton to the Nuclear Control Institute. The message read, "Im (sic) hungry. Feed me plutonium. I want to build a bomb." He used another student's account information which had not been removed from the computer after she sent an e-mail a week before. The Nuclear Control Institute notified... Full story
Sisters sheriff's deputies arrested James Dana Sallaz, of Sisters in the early hours of Sunday, morning, May 3, after he allegedly climbed through an unlocked window of his ex-girlfriend's house and surprised her when she came home. According to sheriff's department reports, the woman returned to her residence on Maple Street at about 11:30 p.m., Saturday, May 2, and found Sallaz, 30, waiting for her inside her home. The woman dialed 911. Sallaz allegedly wrestled with her, tearing the phone off the wall and knocking over... Full story
The monthly rates charged Sisters residents and businesses for sewer service will depend on how much grant funding is available to pay for the system. Voters will decide whether to authorize $7 million in revenue bonds for a sewer system on May 19. The total project cost is estimated at $12.2 million. Dick Nored of HGE Engineering, who designed the proposed system, is confident that he can secure enough grant money to keep monthly rates down to $39 or less per equivalent... Full story
Sisters business owners can become "power donors" to help defray installation and power costs of new streetlights. The lights are to be installed in downtown Sisters in the spring and summer of 1998. The Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce recently received a $58,000 grant from the Central Oregon Rural Investment Fund as partial funding for the Sisters Street Lighting Project. Central Electric Co-op and the City of Sisters will provide in-kind services as the balance of the $92,000 project. By agreeing to connect a streetlight... Full story
Peggy Lutz doesn't need special motivation to get out for a walk. But the Kevin Johnson Memorial Scholarship has given her reason to "go the extra mile" and make her second annual 20-mile march from Sisters to Redmond. Last year Lutz raised over $500 toward the fund for Johnson, whom she knew when he was a student at Sisters High. She chose to walk from Sisters High School to Redmond High School since Johnson attended both schools. Lutz, 76, is no stranger to athletic endeavors. She has a drawer full of medals and ribbons at... Full story
It was a beautiful, warm sunny day. So, when a friend called and said, "let's fish," it wasn't hard to talk me into it. We drove down the old bumpy road to the lower Metolius. Being early in the year we really weren't expecting to see a lot of fish up and working. Nonetheless, we rigged our dry fly rods. After a long winter of nymph fishing, we wanted to try something different. After a bit of poking around and practice casting here and there, we managed to locate at least one fish with his nose up. He was working pretty... Full story
* * * To the Editor: I am pretty naive when it comes to city politics, so please indulge me. I am assuming (acknowledging the inherent risk) that a City Councilor - Gordon Petrie - would have the best interests of the "city" at heart. This, I assume, would include citizens, business, environment and a multitude of other things I am probably not aware of. I have not been in the area for too long (a little over three years) and I do not reside in the city proper. I do however, provide a service to the residents of Sisters,... Full story
