News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Sisters Police officer Don Pray and Deschutes County Sheriff's Lt. Greg Brown were awarded medals of valor by the Oregon Police Officers Association Friday, May 3. The medals were awarded for the officers' conduct in a shooting incident which occurred in Sisters on December 26, 1995. In that incident, Pray and Brown responded that evening to a report of a suspicious man with a gun at Bank of the Cascades. Police reported that when confronted by the officers, Reginald Robert Hi... Full story
Sisters police are investigating a break-in at Ray's Food Place that occurred sometime in the early hours of Monday, May 6. According to police, the break-in was noticed by a Ray's bakery employee when she got to work at 3:45 a.m. Someone allegedly broke one of the front windows of the supermarket and attempted to break into the small automatic teller machine on the inside. "They used some kind of device to try to open the ATM, but they didn't really do any damage to it," the... Full story
To the Editor: I am writing in response to Diane van den Berg's letter to the editor which appeared in the May 1 Nugget. I find her comments to be a slap in the face and very offensive to the pregnant teens and their families. I am friends with some of the girls who are or who have been pregnant and know the hardships they have endured. I choose to show these girls support by helping in any way I can. These girls are not criminals and do not deserve to be shunned. While I don't think they should be congratulated for their... Full story
$SOUP2 We are in the curve of the oval. Tidily, we have mapped out time and changes with our calendars and clocks and linear projections, confirming what we already apprehend in the oldest areas of our brains: that the long days are turning back again toward darkness, toward Christmas and the other turning. We can lie flat in the green grass where the dirt sparkles and explore the low dense jungle where it feasts on the sun and rain; it is the edge of the sky, I tell my last little one. We can take our magnifying glass to... Full story
More than 70 percent of the residents of Sisters will be changing their addresses July 1. Massive exodus? No. The city administration has decided it is time to straighten out some of the confusion and make right some of the street numbers in town. Like City Planning Director Neil Thompson says, "You can no longer call for emergency help and say `come to the Johnson house.' " There have been problems sometimes getting emergency vehicles to the right address. There have actually been a couple of cases in which residents moved... Full story
A sixth-grade student at Sisters Elementary School was found in possession of a small amount of what school officials referred to as "an illegal substance" Thursday, May 2. According to Principal Tim Comfort, the student was turned in by other students who did as they were taught in the D.A.R.E. drug intervention program. "It (the substance) was found because some students were aware of it and reported it," Comfort said. According to Comfort, the parents of the student were... Full story
Two students from Black Butte School in Camp Sherman will wing their way across the country in June to present their prize-winning research projects in National History Day competition at the University of Maryland. Sixth-grader Jasper Hedren and Chris Garciduenas placed first in statewide competition at Willamette University April 27, earning the chance to compete at the national event June 9-13. Hedren won the junior division (6th-8th grade) with a paper titled "Gandhi and... Full story
The proposed Sisters Comprehensive Plan is scheduled to be reviewed in an informal workshop by the Deschutes County Planning Commission at 7 p.m., May 9 in Hearing Room "A" of the county offices in Bend. The Sisters Comprehensive Plan, which has been under study since 1990, was sent to the county in January for informal review. It was later revealed that the county's formal stamp of approval is required by a joint, city/county Urban Growth Management Agreement. The oversight came as a surprise to both entities and no county s... Full story
The statistics from the Central Oregon Health Council Task Force on Teen Pregnancy are startling: "According to a survey of student risk, over half of Deschutes County teen-agers are sexually active by the end of high school. Over 30 percent are sexually active by age 15... "...roughly one-third of sexually active teens eventually get pregnant (50 percent within the first six months of sexual activity)... "...in 1994, among Deschutes County girls age 10-17, there were 227 documented pregnancies (147 births and 85... Full story
