News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Former Sisters bookkeeper Nancy Simpson was sentenced Friday, June 14, to 60 months probation for embezzling over $55,000 from Indian Meadow Water Company. She will also be required to pay $100 per month in restitution during her probation and serve 400 hours of community service. Simpson pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated theft in the embezzlement of $55,767.50 from the water company. She overpaid herself as the company's bookkeeper by an average of about $1,000 per mo... Full story
Dick and Sharon Mooney have won another battle in an ongoing fight over the development of 38.57 acres on Indian Ford Creek. The state Land Use Board of Appeals upheld a decision by the Deschutes County Board of Commissioners allowing the property to be partitioned into three parcels. The Friends of Indian Ford, Howard Paine and Maret Pajutee, petitioned LUBA to review the county decision. They argued, among other claims, that the development lies within an unmapped... Full story
To the Editor: For the past few weeks I have been reading the Letters to the Editor about teen pregnancies. Many times I was upset and deeply hurt for the heartless words that were put toward the teens. My sister happens to be one of the teens who is pregnant. Yes, she made a mistake, but I couldn't be prouder of her. In response to Diane Van Den Berg's comment about the teens taking handouts from the government, I'll tell you this much. My sister has excellent grades, graduating this year, keeps a steady job and will be... Full story
If cookies have a raison d'etre beyond pure self indulgence, it is to carry various related messages. Benign, independent, cheerful, self-contained little morsels, they are articulate in the languages of love: We know you like chocolate, they say. We love you, too. You are not forgotten when you are away. On the home front, they are swift and easy mediators, inclined to preaching at times: Stop fighting, be quiet. Here, share these. Come in, they can coo, your presence is joyfully welcomed. Sit down, let's talk this over... Full story
Two Sisters school administrators have received pay raises totaling $6,600 for the 1995-96 school year. By a 4-1 vote June 10, the Sisters School Board agreed to give Sisters Middle/High School Principal Dennis Dempsey and Assistant Principal Rich Shultz a retroactive pay raise and a 3 percent pay raise for next school year. Retiring Superintendent Judy May declined a raise (see story Page 1). Shultz will receive an additional $2,000 for the '95-96 year, going from a... Full story
Sisters High School is looking for a new head football coach and a new volleyball coach. The district is advertising for teachers who can fill the shoes of football coach Bob Macauley and volleyball coach Mary Flande. According to Principal Dennis Dempsey, Flande will become the middle school athletic director next year and Macauley wanted to step down from his position as head football coach. Dempsey noted that Macauley will continue coaching in some role. No new positions are being created. Dempsey said that two special... Full story
Warm weather blessed the rodeo and lasted another 10 days, then spring returned and it snowed on the Santiam Pass. It snowed. On June 17, a little more than two weeks before the Fourth of July, people huddled in their coats in Sisters and it snowed in the mountains. "There was thunder and lightning first, then the snow came after that," said Ken Rinner of the Highway Division of the Oregon Department of Transportation at the Santiam Junction. Rinner said that about lunch time, enough snow had accumulated to make the road... Full story
Judy May retired June 14 as Sisters Superintendent of Schools. She hands over the reins to incoming superintendent Steve Swisher, who will begin work July 1. As she departs, May has taken steps to ease the path for a financially strapped school district. She was expected to receive a retroactive pay raise along with middle/high school Principal Dennis Dempsey and Assistant Principal Rich Shultz (see story, Page 1), but she declined. She also asked the district to continue her... Full story
Sisters will soon be the home of a Les Schwab Tire Center. About 1.5 acres adjacent to the Sisters Motor Lodge just west of the junction of the McKenzie and Santiam highways has been purchased. Construction may begin after Labor Day. The parcel was purchased by Jerry Taylor. Taylor is manager of the Les Schwab Tire Center on Franklin Street in Bend and has been a Les Schwab District Manager for the last eight years. Taylor said he hopes to begin construction of the Sisters Les Schwab Tire Center in September or October. The... Full story
