News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Donna Lacroix lowers the flag to half mast in remembrance of fallen soldiers. While visitors streamed through Sisters on their way home from vacation, as local folks enjoyed the final lazy day of their three-day weekend, the Sisters Veterans Group offered a stirring ceremony honoring the fallen American soldiers who made such freedom, peace and prosperity possible. The annual Memorial Day ceremony, held at Camp Polk Cemetery on May 28, marked a time for veterans to remember... Full story
Sisters voters gave the green light to build a new Sisters High School with 53-46 percent approval in the May 15 election. Now the hard work begins. Architects, school staff and school board members will soon start designing the school room by room. Actual construction probably won't start until June of 2002, and the doors will not open until around January 2004. According to district architect Scott Steele, the project starts with interviews of staff and teachers to... Full story
The Oregon Department of Transportation is going to close the Highway 20 access to the Mountain View Mall in order to open the parkway ramp to Sisters by the beginning of August. While still in negotiations with mall owner SIMA Mountain View LLC, ODOT will take the mall access under the process of eminent domain if negotiations fail, according to ODOT representatives. Under the eminent domain process, a jury will decide what SIMA should be paid for the access. The dispute between SIMA and ODOT heated up last week. On... Full story
Sisters firefighters knocked down an out-of-control yard burn off Crooked Horseshoe on Monday, May 28. Burn season is over. Fire season hit the Sisters country abruptly in the past week. A lightning strike kindled a wildfire in Squaw Creek Canyon late on Wednesday afternoon, May 23. Then, as winds picked up over the weekend, several yard burns threatened to create conflagrations (see photo). According to a Central Oregon Interagency dispatcher, the Squaw Creek Canyon fire... Full story
Sisters District Ranger Bill Anthony offered a generally optimistic view of local forests to the Friends of the Metolius at their annual meeting on Saturday, May 26. Focused on thinning forest areas in the Metolius Basin, the report gave hope to the large crowd gathered at Camp Sherman's Community Hall. Heavy fuel buildup in the forests presents a fire threat to rural homes in Camp Sherman, but residents are also concerned about possible negative impact from efforts to thin the forest. Anthony described a 17,000-acre area... Full story
The area around this stretch of Squaw Creek is now part of the Camp Polk Meadow Preserve to the north of Sisters. The Deschutes Basin Land Trust will hold dedication ceremonies for the recently acquired Camp Polk Meadow Preserve on Friday, June 1 at 1 p.m. Once on the verge of being subdivided, this 145 acres of rare wetland/ecosystem meadow habitat northeast of Sisters will be managed as a wildlife preserve. The meadow itself will be restored to increase riparian habitat and enhance water quality and quantity for the... Full story
Gil Ticoulat has been in the cattle business for 57 years -- many of them in Sisters. Come June each year, cowboy hats and boots pop up all over Sisters like tumbleweeds on the prairie. But it wasn't that many years ago that cowboy fashion was just the way most people dressed around these parts. Some still do. The Sisters cowboys aren't as numerous as they once were, and they're getting older, too; but the cattle business is still a part of life here. Just ask Gil Ticoulat how long he's been in the cattle business. "Well, I g... Full story
The Keith Cyrus family is likely to oppose the return of conserved irrigation water to Squaw Creek. The water is being saved by putting the Cloverdale Irrigation canal into a pipe, according to Marc Thalacker, manager of the Squaw Creek Irrigation District. The pipe was purchased with $260,000 in grants from the Deschutes Resources Conservancy (DRC) and the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board. In return for their contribution, three cubic feet per second was to be returned to the creek under an "instream water right." SCID... Full story
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- Deputies were called to respond to a physical altercation in progress. It turns out a man had slapped a teenage boy he had taken in after finding that the boy had stolen a $200 check from the man, forged a signature and cashed it. The boy allowed as how he deserved to be slapped and did not seek to press charges. - A man reported that someone shot and wounded his cat. - Deputies checked out a report of a transient sleeping -- and apparently defecating in the city park. - Somebody drove on the dikes at the new sewer... Full story
